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resipsaloquitur to Not The OnionEnglish · 4 days ago

A Bullet Crashed the Internet in Texas

www.404media.co

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A Bullet Crashed the Internet in Texas

www.404media.co

resipsaloquitur to Not The OnionEnglish · 4 days ago
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A ‘stray bullet’ 25,000 people offline near Dallas.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50043182

A ‘stray bullet’ 25,000 people offline near Dallas.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20251001151950/https://www.404media.co/a-bullet-crashed-the-internet-in-texas/

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    So you’re saying we need to give the fibre optic cables guns?

    • middlemanSI
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      Only the white ones

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      Of course not, they deserved it

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    A southern gun nut, this is hilarious:

    Fiber optic cable lines are often buried underground, protected from the vagaries of southern gunfire.

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    Have they ever heard the word “redundancy”? I mean, not just in the human resources meaning?

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