[armchairhacker]

Daily reminder that online, someone well-off lying in bed with a nice bowl of soup can be talking with someone homeless in a third-world country with no chance of improvement whatsoever. Hopefully the OP in SE is not the latter and it's just a temporary situation, especially if they're in Ukraine and Ukraine wins.

[paganel]

For what it's worth the original poster seems to be from Sudan, another current (and more recent) war-zone. It's this part that made me think of that general area:

> our concrete homes are not designed to be habitable without AC power.

and a little web-searching confirmed it. The reason being that concrete-made buildings in Ukraine are definitely habitable right now without AC (I live in a concrete-made building myself a couple hundred kilometres from the border with Ukraine).

[gizmo686]

Also, the OP pretty much says they are not in Ukraine in a comment:

> I think Probably the war will end because Russia and America are busy in Ukraine

[netsharc]

Depressing world facts in April 2023:

"I'm in a war zone."

"Oh yeah, which one?"

At least in March 2023 it was "slightly better" that people would go straight to assuming the answer is "Ukraine". Any other active wars going on[1]? Maybe Myanmar..

[1] Result for "active wars in 2023" gives me a page of potential conflicts: https://www.cfr.org/report/conflicts-watch-2023

[beardog]

The tigray war is kind of paused right now and Eritrea has not signed onto the ceasefire, so I would still treat it as a war zone if I were to travel there.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict could reignite if Azerbaijan wants to take advantage of Russia's distraction.

The Yemeni and Syrian civil wars are still not resolved

Western Sahara has a sort of no-mans land and a land mine problem and had clashes in 2020.

India's borders with Pakistan see skirmishes from time to time. A similar situation may arise with India and China too as water and geopolitical issues mount.

[beardog]

Correction, seems the China-India situation has already become similar with clashes in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

[bragr]

>"Oh yeah, which one?"

I mean, when has there ever not been several regional wars going?

[lucumo]

That happened a couple of times, but that was because everyone was fighting in one big war.

[noduerme]

Another way of looking at it is that there were so many regional wars between the Spanish Civil War and the bombing of Nagasaki that at some point we just started historically lumping them all together.

[pastacacioepepe]

> At least in March 2023 it was "slightly better" that people would go straight to assuming the answer is "Ukraine".

Ignorants perhaps. Several other active conflicts predate Ukraine's war[0]. It's just that nobody cared much, maybe as the people dying weren't white?

Wanna have fun? Pair the Wikipedia link about armed conflicts with the stats about the major arms exporters[1].

.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...

.1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267131/market-share-of-t...

[perth]

Don’t forget the not often talked about Colombian Conflict!

[andrepd]

> Depressing world facts in April 2023:

Has there ever been a point in at least the last 2500 years where there weren't multiple active warzones in the world?

[labster]

> Depressing human nature facts in any year

FTFY

[User23]

Yeah I don’t think it’s common knowledge in the west that our governments are doing the color revolution dance in Sudan.

[_kbh_]

> Yeah I don’t think it’s common knowledge in the west that our governments are doing the color revolution dance in Sudan.

But Wagner (a Russian PMC) is arming the RSF which are the ones trying to overthrow the current government.

So I fail to see how your assertion holds any water.

[noduerme]

Nothing about the Sudan fight between two warlords (the president and the vice president) has any of the hallmarks of color revolutions or of western-backed popular uprisings. There is no evidence of western military intervention, apart from hasty and late withdrawals of embassy staff. [edit: Which rather illustrate that the US and Europe had no clue that war was about to break out]. There is, moreover, no stated ideology or cause behind either side - which is a giveaway that it's simply a local power struggle.

To argue CIA backing must exist in a case where it seems manifestly ridiculous weakens the (already tenuous) argument that the actual color revolutions required some form of western prompting.

[shigawire]

Part of the cause is due to the warlords needing to seize power rather than handing it to civilian government established in the latest revolution.

[noduerme]

> warlords needing to seize power

Really? They needed to? And if these individuals needed to destroy their country in order to save it, that is also the West's fault for providing the population some encouragement to overthrow the last warlord?

[tgsovlerkhgsel]

It's unclear if he means Alternating Current or Air Conditioning with AC. I hope it's the former, because the latter needs kilowatts, not the 270 W they have.

"Concrete" can also mean "the cement based building material" or "specific", as in "this specific building needs power to be habitable, because <unusual detail>" (pumping drinking water for example, which is mentioned).

The comment "because Russia and America are busy in Ukraine" indicates OP is not in Ukraine.

[gizmo686]

What else would they need power for? Heating and cooling are the only appliances I can think of that would be necessary for habitability.

[evan_]

sump pump or well pump, which would also need quite a bit of power but not as much as HVAC

maybe just lighting if there are no windows or they have to keep the windows covered

[jstarfish]

The device they're asking the question from ;)

[jccooper]

Ventilation and/or lighting.

[Nition]

OP has now said:

"Water evaporative coolers are very effective in Sudan because of the dry weather and they consume little energy and also use ceiling fans for cooling and other things like split units but I'm not planning to turn that power hungry device those days."

[philwelch]

Fun rule of thumb is that Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is at the same latitude as Moses Lake in eastern Washington. (Blue Origin used to have a rocket test facility in Moses Lake; another rocket startup is out there now. It’s unlikely to be used as an operational launch facility but it could reach ISS if it were.) Ukraine is slightly north of Kazakhstan on average so think northern US or Canada.

[s1artibartfast]

Contrary to the defeatest attitude, it sounds like they are working on improving their situation by hooking up a solar array.

Small improvements are important, especially for people in dire straights.

[krsdcbl]

You're missing a crucial point here imho: the possibility to seek assistance from someone in a much better situation to research and reflect on the issue may not end the war, but it does make a HUGE moral difference and might provide actual help and solutions for the problem at hand.

Without the internet, the author of the question might well be left to try it out and possibly getting harmed, or with no support at all.

[0xDEF]

The OP is from Sudan.

Ukraine has been impressively fast in rebuilding critical infrastructure after Russian cruise missile strikes. It also helps that many of the Ukrainian men that have gone back to Ukraine are construction workers, electricians etc. Many of them are even working under the risk of Russian double-tap strikes.

[slim]

it also helps when you have 1st world support

[avgcorrection]

They could also be talking with a voluntary soldier who is fighting for an invading military. Lots of ifs and buts to consider.

[RetpolineDrama]

>lying in bed with a nice bowl of soup

Tell me you're in NY without telling me you're in NY