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[-] polotype@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Then again, if they can get the cat out whithout cutting off power, it might save a whole district from power loss. And depending on the duration/location, your neighbouring industries like steel mills would be very much unhappy to have theire steel go solid inside their pipes and have to replace all of them...

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

That power line fed some houses. It's an old wooden residential line, they also usually have redundancy because these things have to be serviced all the time.

It's crazy how many people in here are like "FUCK LIFE UTILITIES ARE MORE IMPORTANT" no wonder we're in an age of heartlessness where people don't care about harm to innocents.

[-] polotype@lemmy.ml -1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Holup now,

That's not what i said, first of all, i'm not familiar with what i assume is american infrastructure, so i assumed worst case scenario and went with it being some important bit for them to refuse it being turned off.

Second, i didn't say "fuck that cat he shouldn't have gone up ther in the first place", i said:

if they can get that cat out without cutting power it might save a whole district from power loss

Which is a whole nother thought.

I understand your reaction to this poor cat being stuck up here, and i could also have assumed that if it has been going for 4 days, they might not be able to save the cat without the power grid operator doing something, which is a relevant argument which i maybe should've taken into account

But you simply can't go around telling people they are sociopath when they just propose we take the (at the time) seemingly more practical route.

Edit: thanks for the constructive argument, What a mature understanding of online discourse

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago

Looking at the power line on the picture: HAHA no.

[-] JelleWho@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

As much as I like cats. I can also see/share your point. Here in NL a company is legally not allowed to cut power for 'saving a cat' reason, and will be heavily fined for it.

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