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Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by gibspaulding »

nuccy wrote: post #59
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #42

Unfortunately it's looks as if Cyber Squirrel 1* hasn't been updated since 2019. This disruption would be one of the more successful operations. * https://cybersquirrel1.com/

The operations are international and are carried out not only by squirrels, weasels (some say martens) are also involved. One of those (unlikely unintentionally) had shutdown the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2016: 1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36173247

It’s unclear whose side the mustelidae are on. Some have been known to collaborate with the physicists.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/felicia-ferret-particl...

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by AdamJacobMuller »

allenrb wrote: post #47

The best line: “There were no immediate details on whether the monkey survived the incident.” Going way out on a limb here, but perhaps the monkey who disrupted equipment carrying enough power to mess up the entire country was most likely charred into an unrecognizable state. But hey, maybe it got lucky!

There are no details because nobody can find the monkey. It's now a cloud of ash.

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by eudhxhdhsb32 »

esperent wrote: post #54
nreece wrote: post #36

Related: just today came across this post on X.. "Sri Lanka will become next Bali as long as it gets fiber." https://x.com/strzibnyj/status/1890628037529727220

The thing that's stopped me from going to Sri Lanka so far is not lack of fiber. It's that every time I look up a genuine travel video of the place, they talk about how much the tuktuk drivers hassle any white person trying to walk around. Outside of the few main hotspots, people don't hassle you in Bali. They are an incredibly friendly and polite people in spite of the tourism. Of course, Bali isn't completely hassl…

> they talk about how much the tuktuk drivers hassle any white person trying to walk around.

That wasn't my experience when I traveled there 3 years ago, and I walked around quite a bit.

My biggest complaint was the lack of good local restaurants, even in big cities. The juice bars were pretty great though. Still miss wood apple.

Another issue was the insanely reckless driving and incessant honking. Even with the plentiful metal bars and hand straps, trying to stand on a crowded bus while they fly around mountain curves is a total body workout.

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by Henchman21 »

bl4ckneon wrote: post #56
cozzyd wrote: post #25

This has the hallmarks of curious George

Expect there is no next episode when he gets in contact with high voltage electrical equipment...

Ah yes, the last book in the series: Curious George and the Electric Fence

Truly, a classic

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Post by danparsonson »

rectang wrote: post #68
danparsonson wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would also like to Orcas with baby seals to your list. Sorry.

I already brought up orcas and baby seals in a sibling comment[1], forty minutes before your response appeared. Have you grappled with my reasoning there? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035760#43064754

So you did, my mistake.

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Post by anon291 »

master_kuro wrote: post #61
lostlogin wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The relatively recent genocide also points to a high level of dysfunction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_genocide

This is absolutely insane. It's almost cartoonishly monstrous. Why isn't this better known? The way the Tamils were treated is so pure a representation of evil that I can barely get through the Wikipedia page. This was the work of Buddhists, too! I've been taught that Buddhists were peaceful and non-violent by creed, but clearly not if the only Buddhist majority nation is capable of such abomination.

Most westerners are woefully misguided in their interpretation of eastern religions.

We are still people.

I'm always shocked when Europeans or Americans single out Christianity as some uniquely malevolent force.

People are like this. We have always been like this. Being atheist, agnostic, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, pagan, heathen, etc -- it doesn't make you superhuman. We're all capable of this and the sooner everyone realizes this the sooner we can work to prevent tragedy.

Re: Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

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Post by anon291 »

master_kuro wrote: post #61
lostlogin wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The relatively recent genocide also points to a high level of dysfunction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_genocide

This is absolutely insane. It's almost cartoonishly monstrous. Why isn't this better known? The way the Tamils were treated is so pure a representation of evil that I can barely get through the Wikipedia page. This was the work of Buddhists, too! I've been taught that Buddhists were peaceful and non-violent by creed, but clearly not if the only Buddhist majority nation is capable of such abomination.

> Why isn't this better known?

The external affair minister of India, Mr Jaishankar, recently excoriated a European politician over Indians handling of Ukraine. He said 'Europe needs to get past the mentality that Europe's problems are the world's problems, while the world's problems are not Europes problems '.

And this is where that attitude comes from

India has dealt with genocides at its borders in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and yet most Europeans and Americans have no idea. The United States of America criticized India for helping Bangladesh during it's Pakistan sponsored genocide, and actually understood military action against India to protect Pakistan's ability to slaughter Bangladeshis.

Again, in Sri Lanka, no one cared

Yet the moment India undertakes it's strategic interests regarding cheap Russian oil, suddenly the whole world starts pointing fingers

There's a lot that goes on in Asia that is simply not reported. If you read American media it's almost like that part of the world doesn't exist

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Post by roenxi »

master_kuro wrote: post #61
lostlogin wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The relatively recent genocide also points to a high level of dysfunction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_genocide

This is absolutely insane. It's almost cartoonishly monstrous. Why isn't this better known? The way the Tamils were treated is so pure a representation of evil that I can barely get through the Wikipedia page. This was the work of Buddhists, too! I've been taught that Buddhists were peaceful and non-violent by creed, but clearly not if the only Buddhist majority nation is capable of such abomination.

> I've been taught that Buddhists were peaceful and non-violent by creed, but clearly not if the only Buddhist majority nation is capable of such abomination.

There are a couple of Buddhist majority countries; Cambodia, Thailand, Mongolia, Laos and more. Also, judging a religion from its adherents worst atrocities is a mistake - for example, look at history. It is hard to rank them given the high level of sickening background brutality but if we're just commenting on religions not living up to their values the crusades (particularly #4) are difficult to top.

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