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  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • in the plans should already be a plan

    "Should" is the worst word in the English language.

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • When a storm comes through and there are widespread disruptions, it is common to send cars along routes to assess the condition of each pole and its equipment. Damaged equipment or lines is easily visible. In a fairly short amount of time the damage can all be assessed and waiting line crews can get to work quickly fixing equipment.

    With underground infrastructure, it takes longer to pinpoint exactly what's and fix it.

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • People seriously underestimate how disruptive underground work is. Imagine instead of a neighborhood with lawns a dense urban area full of concrete, asphalt, and plumbing and how long it would take to retrofit overhead power infrastructure to underground. People would be furious.

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • but they all seem to be countered with “but that’s expensive”

    And time consuming and more difficult to assess, maintain, modify, and install. While increasing the underground footprint which makes it more difficult for other underground utilities and construction.

    Well there are many compelling reasons

    And when the reasons are good enough the lines go underground. Otherwise yes the cheap and easy way is better as the baseline, because paying ~10x more and taking much longer to install a system that is harder to work with for no good reason is stupid.

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • It can be done, but the people paying for it need a compelling reason. Just saying "It's kind of primitive ya know." isn't enough.

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • In a dense urban environment you are wanting retrofitted lines run through terrain already full of concrete, water lines, and other urban features. That would take a lot of coordination in design and still likely miss things (which means more time and money on redesigns). It also means a long installation time which means extended disruption to the area.

    These sorts of underground lines are easier to run in totally fresh new construction, but then again, it runs into servicing issues and extra expense.

    is expensive to fix after a storm

    Assessing and fixing underground lines is much harder, more expensive, and disruptive.

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • Maintenance, modification, assessment, and initial installation are all more difficult. And yes that means more expensive, and yes the cost difference is significant. It is more resource and personnel intense to work underground lines than overhead.

    When it comes to damage from weather, while underground lines can be slightly more resilient they are much, much more of a pain to assess and and fix. A good line crew can put up a new pole in about an hour. It takes a lot longer to run underground digging equipment.

    In some places underground lines are run, of course, because for various reasons the associated downsides are deemed worth it. However when you're looking at a whole infrastructure, you want easy to service, fast to install, and cost efficient.

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • Which is a solution for a limited area where the extra cost and longer install time might be deemed worthwhile, but when you want to run miles upon miles of lines then it is less feasible.

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  • As a consultant...

    Watching overpaid engineers not understand basic concepts or struggle to do things like check voltage with a multimeter.

    Watching horribly sloppy safety procedures.

    Interacting with safety auditors who don't know how their own equipment works and insist on useless safety measures or fail to insist on proper ones.

    Being blamed for a problem outside my control even after identifying exactly where the problem is coming from and who they need to call to fix it. (Then having to repeatedly explain this to increasingly higher levels of management who are increasingly detached from the details.)

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  • No not at all. Power posters keep communities alive.

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  • What's the worst game you've ever had the misfortune of playing?

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  • When I was in elementary school one of my classrooms had Stratego among the board games meant for bad weather days or waiting after school.

    I had previously played Stratego and liked it, but every single other kid in this classroom read that the 'Spy' piece could kill the 'General' (the most powerful) piece and concluded that the 'Spy' could therefore kill any piece on the board. I was shouted down by everyone for pointing out the actual wording of the rules and that a 'Spy' is called that because it's obviously supposed to be a sneaky piece.

    Nobody agreed and just played the game with the 'Spy' as a rampaging super piece killing everything. That was pretty miserable.

  • What show do you recommend to watch?

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  • Yes.

  • What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase?

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  • This is true that crossposting is messy, but I think it is the best current solution. Crossposting means it is more likely to show up on the feed of somebody only subscribed to one of the communities, which might remind them that the community exists. Crossposting also means that when somebody stumbles upon a community it at least has the appearance of a pulse.

  • What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase?

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  • There are certainly plenty of communities that aren't dedicated to doomscrolling. They do need more activity though, plain and simple. I can't single handedly solve the issue of the All feed having so much of that, but I do try to regularly contribute to communities that are more varied, and I suggest to you and other users to do the same. Lemmy is a much smaller userbase and can't rely on the same proportion of users to contribute content like reddit.

    Here are just a few communities I like to visit regularly, and contribute to any time I have a good contribution that aren't full of doomscrolling content.

    !star_wars@lemmy.world

    !warhammer40k@lemmy.world

    !tabletopminis@lemmy.world

    !fallout@lemmy.world

    !airsoft@lemmy.world

    !imaginarywarhammer@lemmy.world

    !traditional_art@lemmy.world

    !artshare@lemmy.world

    !battletech@lemmy.world

    !comicbooks@lemmy.world

    !forgottenweapons@lemmy.world

    !halo@lemmy.world

    !historyart@piefed.social

    !historyartifacts@lemmy.world

    !historyruins@piefed.social

    !stargate@lemmy.world

    !thesimpsons@lemmy.world

    !turnbasedstrategy@piefed.world

    !worldbuilding@lemmy.world

    !simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.works

  • What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase?

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  • This is true. During the big migration wave to Lemmy about 3 years ago, a lot of people came over and started niche within niche communities with the idea of making straight up 1 for 1 copies of very niche subreddits. I've even inherited moderation on some of them.

    I think the best way forward is to try and backfill by posting a majority of content to some of the more main communities, and then crossposting to the more niche ones. This makes the more general and I think more important foundational communities active, and it gives a trickle of content to the already existing niches. Not being afraid of crossposting and then in general posting more is a good answer.

  • What show do you recommend to watch?

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  • Stargate SG1 - It's like Star Trek with machineguns.

    FarScape - It's like Star Trek but the main cast are fugitives, there's lots of muppets, and watching it makes you feel like you're on drugs.

    The Righteous Gemstones - Danny McBride made comedy farce about a horrible, vain, and stupid megachurch family.

    Batman Beyond - Cyberpunk batman with an unparalleled intro sequence.

    Jericho - Post apocalyptic show with a conspiracy mystery bent and heavy GWB GWOT flavor.

    Kings - A sort of adaption of the story of King David in a modern setting.

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • OPR skirmish is the easiest to talk people into since it uses GW minis they probably already own. All it needs is people reading the free rules and making a list. It feels like a proper skirmish game instead of the strange hero battle game modern Kill Team is. This is doable if a store has a Discord or something to do barebones meetup planning even with strangers.

    A little more difficult, but doable if you've eased people into alternate ideas is getting people to agree to an older 40k edition. It requires buying or, uh, finding the rules and codexes, but it sidesteps the problem of constant rules changes. My preference is 3e (I have very little personal interest in Primaris marines) which is much less bloated than modern armies of the same points value.

  • WASD or Arrows???

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  • IJKL

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    Interrupted

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    "Pipe"

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What’s the last thing you’ve done that’s made you ask “Am I stupid?”

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's your juicy work drama that you just want to tell us about?

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Signiture looks of superiority.

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    This is their getalong shark