It's amazing because electrical grids are designed to be able to have sections shut down at any time. The intended purpose is literally to prevent a catastrophic shutdown.

Imagine pompously stating that your suggestion is somehow more logical on the basis of 1) there's a good likelihood you aren't an electrical engineer and 2) that there's some kind of genuine risk here (because apparently this guy thinks the whole lynchpin to the fucking grid happens to be this exact pole).

Dunning Kruger, at its finest. Glad to see you still have your head on straight.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No no, I'm sure that old wooden pole with the ceramic donut insulator, splinters and dangling wires is powering like fucking NORAD or something. 🙄

No really, thank you. There is a segment of people who think themselves "progressive" in spaces like Lemmy but are utterly heartless and exist like soulless automations when it comes to the stuff that actually matters in our lives like protecting the innocent and making sacrifices for small things that make someone or something else have a better experience in life, even if the risk "outweighs" the reward. It's denying the human experience to make that kind of calculation.

Imagine how much better our world would be if everyone, everywhere stopped what they were doing to help someone or something innocent in need. We wouldn't have the fucking Epstein files right now. It actually makes my blood boil and I deleted a few comments here before moderating my tone to be more civil.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It is a sentiment that treats potential loss of life like rounding errors instead of tragedies (big and small).

Tolkien's words live in my brain

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yah there people in here, on Lemmy of all places, making the argument for the stability of businesses.

I feel the effort we put into the smallest acts of kindness is a much better measure of who and what we are as a species.

I'm sure some of the folks responding in here may be on the spectrum or failing to express their arguments and reasoning in a neurotypical way, but for the rest, I hope they actually never learn what it feels like to be the entity depending on someone or something to save them for no reward to themselves. It's a rotten, hopeless feeling and the callousness that people embrace to justify allowing others to experience that, well that's a state that spreads quickly through our society when we allow it to fester. Always push back on heartlessness.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is easy to choose not to care about anything, it is very hard to care about everything. I myself am dealing with having learned to turn my heart off to certain things. Things that would just be too overwhelming to carry.

A friend of mine died recently and it was incredibly shocking. He was much younger than me, I guess he was driving too fast on his bike. One of my first thoughts was that I could have been kinder to him. Maybe if I'd reached out more, stayed more consistent in his life, maybe he would have stayed more tempered.

We can't know what will happen to us nor the people around us. We can only dictate our words and actions. I, however, am much less kind than you — I hope that those who can't be bothered to exhibit the slightest bit of empathy are cursed to suffer in the ways they've been overtly willing to ignore. I hope they experience what it is to decay and have the world fade around them.

It would be poetic. Aneurotypicality is not an excuse for callousness.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I'm sorry for your friend, and yes mortality puts life into new perspectives.

But I want to make it clear... I am not kind. I just have values I live by, knowing what your values are is your guiding star when you can't decide to care about something or everything. I have a train-wreck derailment of people I've made angry in my life by sticking to my values and principles, and I feel zero regret about it, because I know my values are correct, and I don't compromise at a certain level.

I am getting increasingly distressed by how alien this seems to modern generations, and how many people are open about the fact that they can't decide or figure out how to build their values and seem to default to "attitude" over ethics.

[–] polotype@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Damn, now i want to see them comments