Signs like that wouldn’t be necessary if we weren’t living in a hypercapitalist dystopia.
Or if people just weren’t fucking thieves. Don’t defend criminals.
Buddy, if prices keep rising like this. I will be a criminal pretty fucking soon. Shit is bonkers out here.
Acknowledging the causes for crime isn’t defending criminals. You will not be able to condemn these effects away.
You don’t get many thieves in reasonably wealthy countries with reasonably level stratification
“This sign won’t stop me because I can’t read!”
Made me livin in the fiber optic mines. Mine all day, mine all night in those fiber mines.
I was living in a world where I wasn’t aware that it’s a thing to steal cables. Thanks. But aren’t fiber optic more expensive?
Generally when I hear people discussing fiber the big costs is actually running the cables and terminating and splicing the ends, the actual cable itself is relatively inexpensive from my understanding.
But with regard to stealing cable, you really can’t do much with a fiber cable on the secondary market besides using it for fiber, and you also would probably need to re-terminate it that can be very costly. Compared to copper or other type of metal cables that can be sold very easily for scrap metal. That can be melted down and made into something else or just reused as cable.
Probably, but I don’t think you can easily melt it down and sell the raw materials like you can with metals… Just a hunch
Fiber optic cables are very much not recyclable, at least with the current recycling technologies.
i mean its glass, could just melt it down
Sure, but the glass core is only 8–9 µm wide, it’s a minuscule amount of glass compared to copper cables so it’s not really worth it to melt it down.
Most optical fiber is 125um of glass with 250um coating. The coating and the jacketing that make up the cable (mostly non-recyclable plastic) are the real problem.
I don’t know of any fiber that the core is 125 microns. Can you link to one? Neither Single Mode nor Multi Mode fiber is that large.
You are right the core of most optical fibers is either 8-9um for singlemode, or 62.5 or 50um for multimode. The cladding, which is also made of glass, surrounds the core and this is almost always 125um. Often there is more than one layer that makes up the cladding glass to help reduce the bend radius before you start to attenuate your signal. You need both the core and the cladding of different refractive indexes to create total internal reflection, which is how fiber optics work over long distances with low loss.
The glass (core + clad) is the only part of the fiber that is really recyclable. Everything else is plastic that is difficult to chemically remove.
There’s a lot of really bad literature out there on fiberoptics, so I don’t really blame anyone for not knowing this stuff. Here’s a pretty good article that sums up how fiberoptics work I pulled off google: https://www.ofsoptics.com/faq-guide-to-fiber-optic-cable/how-do-communications-fiber-optic-cables-work/
What makes fiber optic useful is the fact that it is a very specific kind of glass.
But it’s still dirt fucking cheap to produce.
The expensive parts of fibre are the transmitters/receivers at each end and the labour to splice/terminate it properly.
It’s hyper complex glass
Some are complex, most aren’t I’d say.
No, Fiber cables are really cheap. They are basically just glass with some reflective coat.
It is just that the connectors and more importantly the work of attaching those connectors to the cable that makes them expensive. They need to be welded in a dust-free environment, and require lots of skill to get right.
Also, copper cables capable of transmitting high data rates aren’t easily manufactured either. Think of shielding, twisted pairs of wires, etc. And they don’t even contain a lot of copper.
Steal the sign instead
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Not with that attitude it doesn’t.
“COMON BOYS, I SMELL COPPER IN THM LINES”
Gypsy doge
See this is downvoted - many read “gypsy” as a slur, which I didn’t know for years.
Romanian gypsies have joined the chat
Just some casual racism, nbd
Look, I will not generalise, not all gypsies are like that. But I can tell you that once, about 10 years ago I did go without internet for 2 weeks because gypsies cut down our DSL line for scrap metal. You do what you want with that info, but it does happen.
Right off the bat, “gypsy” is a racial slur.
If I were to call them roma or romani, half the people here would not even know who I am talking about.
My point still stands, some of them do behave like that. I am not sure if you ever lived near one such comunity, but I have. For the most part they did not cause much trouble, but made no effort to integrate into the society. They had reserved subsidised spots at uni, not like many ever reached that level. Most married at 12 and by 18 already had like 5 children. They collected social support and then sent their children and elderly to beg for extra income. Some left the country for more wealthy ones so they can steal, rob and scam more efficiently and muddy our country’s reputation even more. Don’t even get me started on their hygene… And no, money is not the issue, many of them drive expensive cars and live in large houses.
But not all are like that, some would do pretty good craftsmanship, make items like straw baskets or hats, artisan woodworking or metalwork and some would go gather forest fruits or mushrooms and sell them. Yet I never saw any of them giving reciepts or doing this legally so paying taxes was never in their mind, thefore not actually supporting the society.
So this is my point of view and my observations after living much of my childhood near their community. You can call me racist, however if you do, please point out what your experience is with them and what from I said is wrong or hateful towards then.
You mispelled realism
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I love seeing people explain the obvious to accounts I’ve blocked, especially when it’s clear they said some racist shit.
You know someone is extra racist when they manage to make a racist comment on a picture whose only sentient being is a dog.
Damn, and here I was thinking we left all of the garbage like this comment and poster back on Reddit.
Guess we really can’t have shit in Detroit
