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Cake day: October 15th, 2023

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  • If kept in a dry, room temp environment, those things will be good for 10+ years.

    I’ll buy a few cases every couple of years and rotate into my natural disaster kit and use the old ones for camping/hiking.

    Kids hate them, but they are so damn convenient.

    +1 on using hot water though. The heaters just don’t have the punch they used to.




  • sartalon@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonebreak the rules
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    4 months ago

    It is because it is fiber optic cables.

    Utilities aren’t playing chess with this, they don’t have the time/inclination.

    I work on the engineering/construction side of things, in utilities. The closest we get to this is we try to use tinned wire, so anything that is bare, like grounds, don’t look like copper.






  • This, so much. If a CEO makes a conscientious decision that makes stockholders less money, he gets fired. Stockholders sue companies over decisions that are considered less profitable.

    And I don’t mean people who invest their 401k’s in mutual funds bullshit. I mean the activist multi millionaire assholes that own full percentage points of companies. These people are the ones that lobby companies and politicians and shape the legal and market landscape.

    These fucking people have zero accountability to anyone.

    And they convince themselves they have every right to be that way.