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Multi-day power outage for 45,000 Berlin homes after suspected arson attack
- croemer 10mo agoSingle point of failure and 45k people are without power for multiple days.
- toast0 10mo agoVery few electric customers are served by more than one substation, that substation and the distribution wiring between the substation and the customer are going to be a SPOF, except for the few customers with access to multiple substations. Some substations don't have redundant feeder power either, although that's more often the case where geography makes it difficult (islands/peninsulas)... But the mention of wiring on a bridge might be an indication that is a geographically difficult area of Berlin?
- csomar 10mo agoMost infrastructure is fragile and is one step away from going down. It basically can’t operate without the assumption that people won’t mess it up.
- 1718627440 10mo agoThis. Infrastructure as does the whole society, relies on trust.
- rvz 10mo ago[flagged]
- darubedarob 10mo agoIdeology driven dark ages, one has to embrace these fits of madness burning itself out.
- amadeuspagel 10mo ago> Germany has been on high alert for sabotage activities directed at its infrastructure, including from foreign actors such as Russia. This sentence kind of implies that foreign actors committed the attack, but a leftist group took credit for it[1]. [1]: https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2026/01/berlin-suedwesten-stromausfall-vulkangruppe-bekennerschreiben-brandanschlag.html https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2026/01/berlin-suedwes...
- throw20251220 10mo agoA leftist group cannot be sponsored by Russia?
- Steven420 10mo agoHow much sponsorship does it take to commit arson?
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- throw20251220 10mo agoWho cares? The amount is irrelevant.
- immibis 10mo agoWhy would they be? Russia doesn't tend to fund leftist groups. If they're actually a leftist group, it's far more likely to be about Palestine and of their own accord, or because of direct government oppression against them. Last time I knew of an attack like this in Berlin, it was a direct retaliation after the government attacked their house with military tanks.
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- throw20251220 10mo ago20 years in prison for everyone responsible should quickly sort this out. This is sabotage regardless of the motive.
- immibis 10mo ago[flagged]
- throw20251220 10mo agoThere’s breaking the law and this.
- nerdsniper 10mo agoWhat is “this”, if not breaking the law? Actually no. Engaging with snarky drivel is the wrong way to go about this. Downvote, flag for snark, and move on.
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- mindslight 10mo agoHow will 20 year prison sentences get the power back on ("sort this out") ? Do you think 20n man-years of prisoner labor can install a new cable in the blink of an eye? Will the prisoners be forced to build a time machine so someone can go back and thwart their plans? Or how else do you envision this happening?
- throw20251220 10mo ago[flagged]
- mindslight 10mo agoYou're the one who asserted it would "quickly sort this out". If you want to switch to talking about how to prevent similar events from occurring, surely you can imagine types of actors that even the possibility of 20 year prison sentences would not dissuade.
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