ooh, Electrical Engineer here, I can answer this one!
No.
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As a computer engineer, don't listen to my advice, once things go above 12v they get scary for me
Ever short a car battery? Even 12 volts gets pretty scary pretty quick when you send it at like 700 amps.
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how did you find out? you shouldn't be sabotaging at work
The same way an EMT knows you should wear PPE when riding a motorcycle.
Anyway, the ones that do this shit tend to be hard R republicans and I know they didn't fix their lonliness because right before they will say 'i use arc btw'.
I misread and started wondering what Arch Linux had to do with republicans who sabotage physical infrastructure
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Ah, the EA games argument.
How do you know this game is crap when it’s not even out yet?
Sometimes, you know.
Electrician here, please no.
As an industrial engineer it’s obviously industrial sabotage that’s the solution
Pardon me, but the qualification to answer this is if you're lonely or not. Not whether you're an electrical engineer.
I mean there is some overlap there, but we don't know your situation.
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Attempted electrical substation sabotage is an easy way to fix your loneliness forever. And also all of your other problems.
I hear most people get free food and shelter for years afterwards.
Not sure how much food a person needs after being reduced to a cloud of ionized particles and a small pile of soot.
So you're saying I'll never have to worry about food costs again either way?
Most people end up as a black spot on the ground
Most people get a nice box in a nice hole with a stone on top.
I, personally, prefer to sabotage major data centers, such as the Switch data center in Vegas. Their HVAC units are a particular weak point since they entirely lie on the outside of the buildings they cool. Plus the facility is so big, they'll never even know you were there!
Thanks for the pro tip!
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No please! Electric substations are necessary to transmit power, and we actually need more of them if we’re going to build the amount of renewables we need.
If you’re looking for parts of the electrical system that I feel less positively about, that would include data centers (especially for AI and crypto mining) and coal-fired power plants.
Of course, industrial sabotage is a crime, and with all the high voltage and current going around, it’s a particularly dangerous one at that. Would not recommend
Datacenters aren't the issue, like it or not they're required for modern society. The issue is data centers powered by unclean power sources.
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It’s so funny to me that people will unironically bitch about data centers while posting to a website from their computer or phone. You do know that data centers do literally everything in your modern life, they aren’t just used exclusively used for one stupid type of generative AI you dislike.
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don't fuck with substations. you'll kill yourself and cause a power outage. this doesn't help us. it might also put lives in danger like those who are in hospitals.
I thought it was catalytic converter theft. The goalposts are just moving constantly
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It's actually wrecking the property of the capitalist elites and their supporters.
Except it's not, because potentially hundreds of thousands of people, who are most definitely not "the elite", actually rely on them for, y'know, power? You're not fucking over "the elite" by fucking with public infrastructure. They have backup generators and batteries and plenty of other ways to run their houses. Not only that, with something like a substation, they'll probably cry to the government for help with an emergency outage and it'll just be more public funds going to the.
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Unironically yea.
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Oh let's introduce you to the concept of "Find out":
Suspects arrested in plot to attack power stations with goal of destroying Baltimore: Prosecutors
I'm still waiting for the 'find out' phase of this one..
Unsealed warrant provides closer look at NC power grid attack investigation
Documents reveal new details in Moore County electrical substation attacks
There's a rabbit hole here......
All dem illegal immigrants flooding south from across the border, ruinin' our good country! /s
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No, but it is a gateway to Power Plant sabotage.
How further can I escalate it?
eScAlAtE?!?!?!111
Say no to Power Plant sabotage kids.
driving a train into the hoover dam?
National power grid sabotage
And eventually comic megavillian who plans to put out the sun
Prostate stimulation.
I recently learned that the attacks on substations thing is an idiotic attempt to trigger a race war of some kind in cities, which is "where the [slur] are."
I don't think they've ever heard of a cascade failure.
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Will it cure your loneliness? No. But it certainly makes it easier to bear for awhile.
Asking for a friend...
Not really interested in the type of loneliness cure that would provide
Are you a Domstation? Then yes, the substation wants you to fuck with it.
Otherwise, no. Just look around you, participate in society.
counterpoint: what if I reinvent phrenology to explain why nobody's fucking my pasty bloated hikikomori ass, then add in a TON of mysogyny to my racism to bolster my ego? that sounds way easier. plus, I don't have to go outside ever again.
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