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The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority

• and so it remains

Brie, bacon, redcurrant jelly on a crusty baguette. Heaven.

Meh, fuck Reddit.

The narwhal bacons at midnight

Yup, for me it’s Sync. And Sync is doing a decent enough job of bringing me Lemmy content.

Using a knife and fork: knife in the left hand.

Using a knife only: right hand.

In my younger days, I may, or may not, have sent sketches of massive, throbbing, cum-dripping dongs to multiple work locations.

No you can’t!

MD was superior to CD from a portability point of view, especially in personal players like the Walkman or car stereos.

I had a MD car stereo in around 1997. CD quality sound, without the jumping of a CD every time you hit a pothole.

I already had dozens of reasons to never buy a Jeep. This is just the cherry on a shitty cake.

I work on PON and XGPON. Officially we work on a -25dB maximum, but I’ve seen circuits stable at around 30dB.

It’s surprising how many bad splices you can ignore before it gets problematic.

-18.5dB is going to limit you to either a really good fibre path, or a really short one. Unless you have options with long-range SFPs? The constant progress keeps my job interesting at least.

This is for PON technology. 1 fibre can be split 32-ways to feed, you guessed it, 32 customers. 50g over a fibre that is split 32-ways with a minimum of 15db loss is impressive.

I guarantee those 100gbps circuits are a single fibre all the way from the provider to the customer. And they are expensive, very expensive.

A man travelling on a high-speed train in Germany clung on to the outside of the carriages after failing to get back on after a smoke break, miraculously surviving speeds of up to 282 km/h, police said on Friday.

The man, a 40-year-old Hungarian national, boarded the train bound for the northern coastal city of Lübeck in Munich on Thursday without a ticket.

Yet, that was not the reason for the risky stunt, according to police. When the train stopped at the Ingolstadt station, some 70 kilometres north of Munich, the passenger stepped outside to smoke.

When he realized the doors had closed and the train had begun moving again, he jumped on the fixture between two carriages and held on to cable harnesses while the train accelerated to speeds of up to 282 km/h, police said.

Onlookers on the platform notified the police at around 3 pm. The driver stopped the train at the small town of Kinding, some 30 kilometres north of Ingolstadt, where the man was arrested.

When questioned by police, the man said he jumped on the outside of the train because his luggage was still inside.

The man “surprisingly” wasn’t harmed in the life-threatening incident, said a spokesman for the federal police.

He is now being investigated for his failure to purchase a ticket. He also faces proceedings for “disruptive behaviour” - which, however, is only considered a misdemeanour.

What a narc

Dunno, OP sounds kinda kinky.

Because fuck Spez, that’s why.

Yeh, me. I don’t really think in words. More like visualisations of what I’m doing, have been doing, or are going to do.

*moot

Part of my job (fibre project engineer) is to oversee the building of fibre optic spine cables. Think of an 864 fibre cable snaking it’s way through town with various drop off nodes for local access networks to be built.

I also oversee the termination of the cable in the exchange, and the testing of the spine to make sure it’s within loss limits and that the right fibres are going to the right nodes.

I will often put a minor fault on in the exchange to see if the guys doing the testing pick up on the issue and report it back to me. Maybe a slightly dislodged connector, or fibre 275 crossed with fibre 276, for example.

Most of the time, the guys doing the testing will pickup on the issue and resolve it report it back to me. If it doesn’t get picked up on, I’ll make sure I keep a closer eye on the build crew.

He turtley did