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How it feels at the beginning of the end of the world
- markus_zhang 1y agoMaintaining infrastructure is an expensive, messy and ungrateful job. Some countries are going to see decades of deterioration of infrastructures.
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- hank808 1y agoYou might want to fix the title.
- dang 1y agoFixed. Thanks!
- dlmilli 1y ago[dead]
- amos-burton 1y agoit was not the end of the world, you literally got disconnected of the machine that helps you eat, drink, navigate, work, f.... in one word, to live. They call it the "wake up" scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwhB5uCaj3Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwhB5uCaj3Y The paradox in that event, according to some unofficial interpretations, is that it happened because the surplus of solar panels, especially individual ones that are connected to the network. short story long, that created instability in the network that generated a massive outage, in total opposition to the idea of independence you try to achieve when you install such solar panels at home. this is speculative, lets see how things roll out, of course.
- howard941 1y agoWest central Florida's been doing this three times for the last two autumns, after the hurricanes roar through. It's not the end of the world, no, but it's awfully inconvenient.