190
The funniest part is that the network in this picture is comically simple, compared to ours. We just got MUCH better at cable management and utilisation.
"Yo girl gimme yo number."
"It's 5."
"She'll never go with me, Nigel. Her family is so wealthy that her telephone address is not only but one digit, it is as low as 5! What will a lowly two digit pleb like myself ever do??"
Au wire.
ja det är mycket tråd
I’m an engineer and technician. I pride myself on being able to trace down a wire in the nastiest of control panels. That hot mess would make me pour sweat if I had to service it.
Electrical engineer here: Would definitely visit!
Probably adrenaline rush like going cage diving among white sharks!
It's like visiting an active volcano. You know it's been like this for years, so it's unlikely to explode right when you're there, but at the same time it's absolutely guaranteed to blow at some point in time.
I traveled quite a bit in SE Asia, and I don't know how anyone survives beyond the age of about 8.
The internet cables behind my old apartment in Chicago looked like this.
No joke.
Multiple times I had to call the tech out who would always give me a new reason why it failed this time.
- Someone with a different internet provider spliced into my line.
- Cable box full of water
- Water in the cable.
- Someone just unplugged my cable and used the connector for theirs
There was 2 big cable boxes on the side of the building. Always open. Though they shouldn't be.
I think maybe 40 or 50 apartments in the building.
Oh and this one time. I come home to find a random cable sticking out of a wall that previously did not have a cable in it.
So like some tech for some service came and drilled into the outside wall of the wrong apartment. And snaked the cable through. And then I guess they probably were super confused when they went back to the apartment they were working on and the cable wasn't in it. (I assume my neighbor).
And anyway they just left it there.
So my tiny studio apartment had two internet cables.
Oh and I forgot. The last time a tech came he asked me about it and I told him how it just magically appeared one day. So he tested it and said it had an Internet connection.
He said he left it on so when the one on the left stopped working again (as it did every year or so), I had a backup.
I always felt bad for the techs that came. And to top it off the building manager was a real pain about letting them park their van in the back. Lots of arguing about that. It was always a big hassle.
This is everywhere in Laos, not just one spot.
I mean it does look cool...
I think most of that is data or phone, only the top looks to be insulated.
I wonder how many of those cables are still in use?
It's up there with the Bude Tunnel, top tier tourist attraction
Wiremore!
Pretty sure 2/3 of those are disconnected, but it's just too tangled to want to do anything about it so they add another run.
Why should so many be disconnected?
Quick, tag Electroboom!
Paris
In the
the spring
My least favorite spot in Vientiane is "That Dam" Stupa.
That dam stupa, everyone is fed up with its shit!
Triple dog dare you to stick your tongue on it.
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026
190 points (98.0% liked)
Not The Onion
20833 readers
1574 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS