Oh no how unfortunate.
Oh damn, now is the best time to play online games if you’re in the EU region.
If someone told me, just before the invasion, that in 2025 Ukraine would be dunking on Russian energy infrastructure with near impunity, I would have said they were batshit crazy. Slava Ukraini.
At this point they’ve spent their entire Soviet inheritance. They foolishly demonstrated to everyone how poorly maintained everything was, from hardware to training.
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If they’re without power, who will tell the GOP what to do?
What will happen to all the bots?
No activity will be seen from .ml
Sure would be funny to see a noticeable activity dip during this time.
I feel a little bit better that I’ve been arguing with other human idiots.
It’s nice to know when it’s actually a fellow dumbass and not a fucking clanker.
Who will shove severed power lines into toilets and then flush them to see what happens? WHO WILL DO IT???
Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison.
And Stephen Miller. He may look like your average thieving, conniving, corrupt, unqualified, alt-right fascist, racist, psychopathic piece of shit government advisor, but he seems to be pulling a lot of strings on his own.
The machine is about to devour him. He made enemies within and his wife left him to be in Elon’s harem. I don’t think think he’ll even make it to the night of the long knives 2. Maybe 2 more Scaramouchis before he’s out.
Youre not wrong, and I hate it.
~~Old school landline phones work without power. Not saying they’re using them, just a fun fact. ~~
Edit: see below. I have no idea what in talking about.
They absolutely do not. They just don’t require power locally, but there’s 48v on the line that needs to be generated somewhere.
There will be a big battery bank in each telephone exchange that supplies power until the generators start up. I always hated the battery room, it smelled and there was always the danger of hydrogen buildup. The telephone exchange can keep running on generators until mains power comes back on, or the fuel runs out. (The longest outage I’ve experienced personally on generators was 3 days). The expectation is always that mains power will be restored “soon”.
Then why would our landline work when the power was out?
Because the phone company (miles away from you and your local power outage) still has power, or has battery backups and automatic generators. The phone runs off of 48v that is sent directly via the phone line. That’s why you don’t need to plug your landline into a power outlet. It was also historically a fairly important safety feature, as people tend to need emergency services after their power goes out. For instance, maybe a bad storm blew through.
This actually turned out to be a problem when telecoms started transitioning towards digital phone lines. These days, they usually send everything via coax or fiber. Then a modem will take that incoming line and decode it into phone, internet, and TV signals. The modem also provides that 48v power on the phone lines. But that presents an issue, where a power outage will kill the customer’s modem, and therefore kill the customer’s landline phones. And we’ve already established that landline phones are an important safety fallback during emergencies. So now, you can actually get battery backups directly from the telecom, to be able to keep your modem powered (and thus use your landline phones) even during power outages.
My house has a landline phone connected to the internet modem via a VoIP box. My entire house has battery backup so the modem, router, and phones stay on during a blackout, but the equipment my modem talks to (I’m assuming somewhere on the street) does not have a battery backup, so the phones are still useless in a blackout.
Battery backups and diesel generators at the interchange, both of which are only temporary. Batteries need to be charged and diesel needs to be pumped, and while you can (and most infrastructure resiliency relies on it) operate these systems on manual power, the stability of large infrastructure systems becomes quite vulnerable once it’s necessary to run a diesel generator to pump diesel for your other diesel generators.
Oh… I had no idea… But it makes sense! Thanks for the info, friend 😃
Who are the GOP?
Group Of Pedophiles.
The Grand Old Party is a nickname for the Republicans widely used by the US media.
We the people are changing it to Grifting Ol’ Pedophiles
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Slava fuckin ukraini!
Will that affect Oil & gas exports?
Presumably it has a more direct affect on civilians, who are otherwise able to skip most of the consequences of the war. Russians going without heat over the winter will give a little taste of what they’ve inflicted on Ukraine and hopefully put some pressure on Putin. But it also affects manufacturing, both of war materials and civilian needs.
And let’s not forget the commercials they were trying to ship to EU in the first year of war. The ones with Christmas without heating and food due to sanctions on Russia make EU collapse n
And chances are these sorts of attacks will continue. That means less and less manufacturing capacity, etc.
Gettim.
Great work Ukraine!
Just be ready for a massive retaliation on your own power grid.
That implies that Russia is out of ideas, no longer optimizing strategic targets on their own.
This is a retaliation. Russia has been doing this for a long while now.
That happens every day anyway.
