Can't throw me off the scent

[lazynooblet@lazysoci.al]

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.

[ragingrobot@lemmy.world]

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

[credo@lemmy.world]

You can take this and install your own fiber to home. Free unlimited internet.

[gluwu@lemm.ee]

Yup, magnetars. Like specifically that number, 10^9 - 10^11 T.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar

[bleistift2@sopuli.xyz]

Never heard of these?

[grandkaiser@lemmy.today]

"I hate crackheads
I hate crackheads"

[brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee]

Damn, that's interesting! Also just realised I forgot that pulsars are a type of neutron star

[psythik@lemmy.world]

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!

[omegalemmy@discuss.online]

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?

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

there's a lot of construction near me, it was all wilderness, now they're putting in housing developments.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

those are boring, i want hunks of cable, undersea cable, backbone cable, local telco.

what can I say, I probably have issues

[tja@programming.dev]

Are you trying to melt the copper by induction? Not much else can be done with a magnet, since copper isn't ferromagnetic...

[mutilationwave@lemmy.world]

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.

[mutilationwave@lemmy.world]

I do cable a lot for my work. I have probably a mile of cat 6 at this point. I do fiber too, and yes I want a big chunk of undersea cable to make art with.

[mutilationwave@lemmy.world]

Honestly we just throw chunks of fiber away. For our purposes, if it's over 320 feet it's going to be copper anyway. I made the mistake one time of underestimating the amount of fiber I'd need and cost my company a lot of money. Now I always over order and the extra goes in the trash because it's worthless. Next time you see guys doing fiber they might just have some scrap fiber to give you.

A few weeks ago I had a guy come up to me and jokingly say hey you should give me some of that copper line. I was feeling generous and gave him an unopened 1000ft box of cat6. Don't tell my boss!

[mutilationwave@lemmy.world]

I'm not who you responded to but my answer is all the time due to my job.

[mutilationwave@lemmy.world]

Old joke:

Don't hang out with methheads.

A crackhead will steal your wallet.

A methhead will steal your wallet then help you look for it.

[mutilationwave@lemmy.world]

>Monster Magnet

[desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

TBF they do have a large gauge wire in them

[nfamwap@lemmy.world]

If you live in the UK I'll send you some. 864f OK?