The crack pipe is a wonderful touch.
Can't throw me off the scent
Submitted 2 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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spicytuna62@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Entropywins@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That is a methpipe…a straight glass tube filled with steel wool would be a crack pipe… don’t want that awkward silence and judgement from addicts when you call it the wrong name!!!
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Damn. I wrote meth and changed it to crack at the last second. I have let my addict heritage down. My father would be disappointed if he wasn’t so high right now. :(
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I’m NOT a fucking METHHEAD!
…I’m a crackhead. Get it right!
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 2 days ago
They are starting to rip out the cables used in car chargers. It’s only 2m long, costs £300 to replace and the thief strips out £4 worth of copper.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 day ago
In turkey there are a lot of people who gather cardboard for recycling for a wage of about 30-40 dollars a day
Is the USA version of this just pulling copper?
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Stealing copper, getting under older cars and cutting out catalytic converters, yes. Copper is not a big money maker but it’s better than collecting aluminum cans.
The problem with 90% of crime is poverty. They do hundreds of dollars of damage to make a few bucks. If we had universal basic income or better safety nets these crimes would nearly vanish overnight.
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, except that it’s nearly always super damaging.
The US version would be more like collecting cans back when they had a 5 or 10 cent deposit. Today I can’t really think of anything like that. Maybe driving Uber/Lyft. Or just panhandling/begging.
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
We have recyclers too
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If this is how the Western world arrives at harm reduction and UBI for everyone - that it’s just good business - I’m not even gonna be mad.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
Like that would happen when they can sell £4 cables for £300.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
1: Why’s it $300 then?
2: All theft from Tesla owners is valid in 2025
3: Why do people assume they aren’t selling the expensive cables whole?
Schmuppes@lemmy.today 1 day ago
- Because the damage also includes labor and overhead, not just Material.
- We’re not talking about Tesla specifically.
- Even if the stolen cable was left undamaged, who are you gonna sell it to? The company that owns the charging station?
Clasm@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
1: Labor & Equipment.
2: Tesla owners don’t necessarily own the Charging stations.
3: They are icing wire cutters to remove the cables, destroying the cable in the process.
droans@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You know there’s more to it than just raw copper, right?
The cable itself, insulation, active cooling, labor, complicated build process, specialized installation, etc.
Don’t be daft.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That will be great when I’m on a long trip looking to charge in the middle of nowhere lol.
I have actually been stranded a couple of times already. Still love electric though
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
TBF they do have a large gauge wire in them
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
It’s not a long distance and they don’t have super large gauge. I’d have expected 0 or 2/0 but apparently 2-4 is common.
dumbass@leminal.space 1 day ago
We have crackheads in Aus, maybe we need to stear them towards our copper cable so they can rip it up and our government will actually give us the NBN we were promised, will full fiber all the way.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I haven’t played netrunner in ages, but I still love the shitty australian internet corp is the evil surveilance corp from netrunner
CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Honestly not a bad idea, I approve.
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Modern day problems require modern day solutions
dan@upvote.au 1 day ago
I’m still surprised that Australia didn’t do more with the HFC network. Seems like a missed opportunity. Some ISPs in the USA are trialing 2Gbps symmetric (2Gbps up and down) over coax.
tpihkal@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Never trust a copper.
PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Crackhead gonna crackhead.
WhyFlip@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s typically meth heads that are stealing all of the copper.
mogranja@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wouldn’t calling them drugheads be more inclusive? Just saying.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I want like 1 ft of carrier bundle fiber optic, because I think it’s cool as shit.
Every time I see one of the spools I want to go up and hack a foot off of it but I wouldn’t want to come off as a tweaker.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
those are boring, i want hunks of cable, undersea cable, backbone cable, local telco.
what can I say, I probably have issues :)
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you live in the UK I’ll send you some. 864f OK?
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
864f
Aww, that’s awesome—you’re awesome! And that’s a wicked-looking cable. Sadly, I’m in the US.
It made me ponder, though. It looks like several different product manufacturers sell affordable samples of some of the larger cables.
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Where the hell are you hanging out, that you regularly run into spools of fiber optic cable? I’ve never seen one in my life!
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not who you responded to but my answer is all the time due to my job.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
there’s a lot of construction near me, it was all wilderness, now they’re putting in housing developments.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
How valuable is optic fiber “cables” anyway? 🤔
synapse1278@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s very valuable as a cable, but as material, it’s worthless. Pull on it to hard, give it a rough bend, cute it anywhere, and it isn’t a cable anymore.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 days ago
cute it anywhere
Resist the urge to put kitty stickers on fiber optic cables. Got it.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Now I’m curious, how DO they cut it to size?
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Not very. Worthless if cut into short lengths.
A thief who rips a bunch out of a construction site or similar won’t be able to sell it for anything, if that’s what you wanted to know.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Only the connectors and the skill to weld them on are expensive.
The cable itself is just glass and plastic with some shielding.
credo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You can take this and install your own fiber to home. Free unlimited internet.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Extremely
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
So instead of copper cable theft, they’ll just steal the optic fiber cables then… 🤔
The sign isn’t helping lol
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“Come out, copper, I know you’re in there!”
grandkaiser@lemmy.today 2 days ago
“I hate crackheads I hate crackheads”
crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 2 days ago
Average sign against gypsies, they actually destroyed a couple over here thinking they are coper.
Aphelion@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Wow, nice EuroRacism.
SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 2 days ago
*Cooper
30p87@feddit.org 2 days ago
*knowing
5715@feddit.org 2 days ago
Shut up Gadjo
LifeLemons@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Me when I keep moving a super strong monster magnet of 10¹⁰ >!(I forgor the unit of measurement for magnetic strength)!< near the copper wire:
(Suddenly the copper shits itself)
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
The unit is Tesla. For reference, the earths magnetic field is around 50 nT on the surface (depending on latitude), and MRI machines have 1.5 T or 3 T. So your 10¹⁰ T might just nail you to the earths Iron core 😂
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nail me harder down tu the core, magnet daddy.
LifeLemons@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I didn’t remember the scale, I just picked a number from my head
brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Given that even 3 T is already considered a large amount of flux, would it be even possible for an object with 10 billion Tesla to even exist? And if so, what would it take to achieve that amount of flux? Does a neutron star or a pulsar* get even remotely close?
* - pulling these examples kinda out of my ass – while i’m sure neutron stars have extreme magnetic fields i’m not so sure about pulsars
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
Are you trying to melt the copper by induction? Not much else can be done with a magnet, since copper isn’t ferromagnetic…
LifeLemons@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I meant induce so much unwanted voltage that the voltage regulators can’t even handle, killing all electrical supplies
As some pointed out, 10¹⁰ T is too much, I think 10 T will do
DigitalMus@feddit.dk 1 day ago
Cool, can I come over and have a look at your
super strong monster magnetNeutron star?MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah but the tracer wire
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah I hear those dirty Sanchez’s stick around
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
But fibre does form a crucial part of a healthy diet. Much on fibre optic cables while you sweat hard to dig up the real copper.