Once again, I am asking for advice

ooh, Electrical Engineer here, I can answer this one!
No.
- As a computer engineer, don't listen to my advice, once things go above 12v they get scary for me
  
  Ever short a car battery? Even 12 volts gets pretty scary pretty quick when you send it at like 700 amps.
- how did you find out? you shouldn't be sabotaging at work
  
  The same way an EMT knows you should wear PPE when riding a motorcycle.
  Anyway, the ones that do this shit tend to be hard R republicans and I know they didn't fix their lonliness because right before they will say 'i use arc btw'.
  
  Ah, the EA games argument.
  How do you know this game is crap when it’s not even out yet?
  Sometimes, you know.
- Electrician here, please no.
- As an industrial engineer it’s obviously industrial sabotage that’s the solution
- Pardon me, but the qualification to answer this is if you're lonely or not. Not whether you're an electrical engineer.
  I mean there is some overlap there, but we don't know your situation.
  
  Nah, I don't have to be lonely to tell if these idiots shooting at my transformers are still lonely after. Pretty confident they are still starving for attention.
  Am lonely though.
  
  Lonely electrical engineer here, I concur.
- If I built a catapult and fired a big arse log into the tower things wouldn't it look kick arse and make cool sparks and shit?
  I feel like I would need some Bros to help make and manoeuvre the catapult obviously.

Attempted electrical substation sabotage is an easy way to fix your loneliness forever. And also all of your other problems.
- I hear most people get free food and shelter for years afterwards.
  
  Not sure how much food a person needs after being reduced to a cloud of ionized particles and a small pile of soot.
  
  Most people end up as a black spot on the ground
  
  Most people get a nice box in a nice hole with a stone on top.

I, personally, prefer to sabotage major data centers, such as the Switch data center in Vegas. Their HVAC units are a particular weak point since they entirely lie on the outside of the buildings they cool. Plus the facility is so big, they'll never even know you were there!
- Thanks for the pro tip!
- Lmao that place looks like a supervillain fortress complete with ominous red glow and super high walls with aggressively angled wrought iron.
  It also has fully kitted out paramilitary-looking security that don't screw around. They don't just have like, one sad Securitas agent dinging the perimeter while catching up on How I Met Your Mother lol.
  But seriously, chances are a lot of good data goes through there too. Don't shut off our connection to the outside world it kinda sucks here. :( :( :(
  I seriously wonder what kinda data flows through there though. Boggles the mind to fathom.
  
  The armed guards make it a challenge! If anything, get some drones and attach some explosives, like they're doing in Ukraine!
- You are posting this on a website. How do you think that works? The internet relies on data centres around the world. Unless you actually know what's being hosted on that data center, this is an unfathomably stupid move.
  
  Probably like Pokemon Go or something, I say it's a safe target /s

No please! Electric substations are necessary to transmit power, and we actually need more of them if we’re going to build the amount of renewables we need.
If you’re looking for parts of the electrical system that I feel less positively about, that would include data centers (especially for AI and crypto mining) and coal-fired power plants.
Of course, industrial sabotage is a crime, and with all the high voltage and current going around, it’s a particularly dangerous one at that. Would not recommend
- Datacenters aren't the issue, like it or not they're required for modern society. The issue is data centers powered by unclean power sources.
  
  So what you're saying is we destroy the unclean power sources
- It’s so funny to me that people will unironically bitch about data centers while posting to a website from their computer or phone. You do know that data centers do literally everything in your modern life, they aren’t just used exclusively used for one stupid type of generative AI you dislike.
- Until they're replaced by other generators, those coal-fired power plants are supporting everyone just like the substations are.
  
  I hear that, but I think we need to be phasing out coal as fast as possible. Nuclear for base load and renewables plus storage for the rest is our best path forward to decarbonize ASAP
- You rely on data centres to post this message.
  I have legit had people arguing that because it's decentralised that it doesn't need a data centre. Not realising that many lemmy instances are hosted on public cloud, and that all of them need network infrastructure housed in data centers.
  
  P2P architectures run on a routed mesh mostly on network edge don't really need DC server farms. Switching packets, especially minus porn and cat videos don't take much DC space or power either. Lemmy isn't that different from Usenet via uucp on dialup, even considering today's scale.

don't fuck with substations. you'll kill yourself and cause a power outage. this doesn't help us. it might also put lives in danger like those who are in hospitals.
- PSA for those thinking fucking about with high voltage is a good idea
- Best workplace safety sign I ever saw was a high voltage lockout that said to the effect of "not only will this kill you, it will hurt the entire time you are dying". Death is not always a sufficient motivator
- Came here to say this. All the corporations and evil people they're hoping to fuck over from this have backup generators and it's the poor schmucks like us that'll be stuck without a/c in the heat of summer.
- I really don't get why someone would do this other than to play out some sort of sick fantasy. No one good ever destroys public utilities.

Go to prison. Get a cell mate. No more loneliness
- No one is lonely in cell block 8 🧖‍♂️🧼

I thought it was catalytic converter theft. The goalposts are just moving constantly
- No, that's a cure for meth loneliness.

It's actually wrecking the property of the capitalist elites and their supporters.
- Except it's not, because potentially hundreds of thousands of people, who are most definitely not "the elite", actually rely on them for, y'know, power? You're not fucking over "the elite" by fucking with public infrastructure. They have backup generators and batteries and plenty of other ways to run their houses. Not only that, with something like a substation, they'll probably cry to the government for help with an emergency outage and it'll just be more public funds going to the.
  
  Also, lots of electric utilities are not investor owned. Plenty of electric cooperatives and municipal utilities out there that care more about providing affordable power than making huge profits.
  
  don't engage with an obvious troll
  
  I tried to make this argument about the economy as a whole during the first couple weeks of the Lockdowns, and was accused of wanting to sacrifice people's lives to the DOW
  
  Wow. Maybe you should reread my comment.
  I didn't advocate burning down substations.
  But, hey, you just keep on taking things wrong and ranting.
- Unironically yea.
- True

Oh let's introduce you to the concept of "Find out":
Suspects arrested in plot to attack power stations with goal of destroying Baltimore: Prosecutors
Canadian shot bullets at substation in western North Dakota, was in US illegally, federal charges allege
North Carolina Marine charged in neo-Nazi plot against substations denied access to electronics, documents show
I'm still waiting for the 'find out' phase of this one..
Unsealed warrant provides closer look at NC power grid attack investigation
Documents reveal new details in Moore County electrical substation attacks
Allegedly
Model Citizen
Oh really?
There's a rabbit hole here......
- All dem illegal immigrants flooding south from across the border, ruinin' our good country! /s
  
  You should probably look at stats before creating strawmen, since I don't recall "ONLY illegals commit crime" being a common statement, even though CA has a major problem with crime by illegals.
- Oh no
  
  Yeah not a "list" I want to be on lol

No, but it is a gateway to Power Plant sabotage.
- How further can I escalate it?
  
  eScAlAtE?!?!?!111
  Say no to Power Plant sabotage kids.
  
  driving a train into the hoover dam?
  
  National power grid sabotage

Prostate stimulation.

Let bro cook
- Literally. If bro isn't careful those transformers might cook them

I recently learned that the attacks on substations thing is an idiotic attempt to trigger a race war of some kind in cities, which is "where the [slur] are."
I don't think they've ever heard of a cascade failure.
Edit: fixed typo

Original article was pickleball for anyone about to look it up
- I'm glad they changed it, I'm tired of Big Pickleball out here trying to loneliness-shame me

Not really interested in the type of loneliness cure that would provide

Asking for a friend...

Will it cure your loneliness? No. But it certainly makes it easier to bear for awhile.

Nope, it's suicide
- They didn't find any bodies at those substations in North Carolina.
- Thanks Danny

Are you a Domstation? Then yes, the substation wants you to fuck with it.
Otherwise, no. Just look around you, participate in society.
- counterpoint: what if I reinvent phrenology to explain why nobody's fucking my pasty bloated hikikomori ass, then add in a TON of mysogyny to my racism to bolster my ego? that sounds way easier. plus, I don't have to go outside ever again.

Just take a seat over there
- Hey thats my line!

All I'm saying is it worked for The Iron Giant.
- And Be Kind, Rewind.

Be Kind Rewind

Make all the jokes you want but we still don't know who took a few shoots at the US power grid
- It isn't just a few shots. There was one a really big, well-publicized attack a couple few years ago in the PNW somewhere, and the energy sector has been warned to take protective actions (but think of the shareholders now). There have been several dozen smaller events across the country.
- What???!
  
  They shot some transformer thingy and caused a massive power outage

Social science graduates keep coming up with the craziest titles.

Only if you're a lorry driver in Scotland.
For those not in on the joke, it's an episode from Still Game, probably the funniest, and most consistently funny sitcom I've ever seen. As in frequently makes me laugh out loud, even now after seeing the entire series 3 times.
It may still be on Netflix. You'll ~~want~~ need subtitles, as the Scot accent is quite thick (intentionally so).