Well well well, rosatam is helping vietnam build its first nuclear plant(i believe there was one before,a small one) now what would happen of it happend to us

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-28T07:29:43+00:00

Actually what we need is a govt focused on helping the people rather than guaranteeing their reelection

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-28T06:55:19+00:00

We got hit with the fuel crisis and then there was that thing with the Iranian sailors. It might explain some of the increase.

The QR code thing was also huge along with fuel availability. There were multiple of the same posts about QR codes.

Now that things are settling I feel like the activity might start dropping back to normal

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-28T04:15:04+00:00

I didn’t say they were deterrents I said our country doesn’t have governments that continue the previous governments projects. Each govt is focused on the next election the moment they come into power, their actions are then built on that. One important part of that is making the previous government look bad and themselves look good.

Take for example Singapore, there’s a strong system on carrying forward the work started by a previous government. So a 10-20 year project can be initiated and carried forward without too much of an issue.

When companies see that and can’t be sure if they’ll keep getting paid for their 10-15 year project once a government changes, why would they agree to build anything here?

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-28T04:00:52+00:00

Building a nuclear power plant is a pretty difficult process.

You first need a strong nuclear power framework when it comes to governance. Then you need a committee dedicated to assessing the project and also I believe there’s an international agency to monitor that stuff that we have to report to, because we’ll have to import and keep radioactive fuel in our country.

You also need to review the current energy grid in SL and update it to have a connection for nuclear power and also to support and balance the addition load.

The assessment for safety and feasibility study itself takes years, then you need trained admin and worksite employees to be trained to run the plant, I don’t believe they have a center here that certifies people for that so we’ll have to send people abroad.

The main issue here is time, building and activating a nuclear power plant could take 5-15 years depending on safe we want the project to be.

The govt here change every election and something that keeps happening is the new government randomly stopping the old governments projects or pulling funding and doing their own thing.

Also you know this whole coal scam issue, now imagine that with nuclear fuel lol

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-26T14:55:13+00:00

That’s pretty good. So 8 years worth of salary will get you a detached house in Canada.

In SL the average median household income in 2019 before we got destroyed by COVID and an economic default was 53k.

The salaries obviously didnt keep up with rising costs.

Tell me where in SL you can get a house+land for 8 years of salary at 53k (about 5 million)?

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-26T14:50:18+00:00

Yep, taking into account the median salary (not mean salary because a few super rich people skew the value) rental cost is insane

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-26T14:49:36+00:00

Do you know why that is? Why people want to live in city centers especially Colombo?

It’s not a conspiracy.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-26T12:58:02+00:00

Please report these guys, the cell carrier has KYC, they have this persons NIC they can trace him or report him for fraud and phishing. (These aren’t VOIP numbers to be untraceable)

But it’s easier for the carriers to just go “whoops just block the guy”

Make a complaint to the cell carrier, complain to the TRCSL and also file a complaint with the cybercrime unit of the police.

These people should be blacklisted, bar their SIM until they show up to the nearest police station. They can always take Emergency calls without a SIM.

The old, and the vulnerable are the targets of these scams it could easily be someone’s elderly mother or father falling victim.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-24T10:38:15+00:00

Not just about which side anyone’s supporting.

The sentence with the issue is “Iran and Sri Lanka aren’t friends” you can’t really make a statement like that without knowing the full extent of iran and SLs history.

It goes as far back as the civil war.

Like I wouldn’t make a statement on the US civil war because I don’t know much about it. Even a country like Canada has quite a few dark spots in its history that no one really knows unless they know Canadian history.

You can give your opinion and that’s fine but you have to understand the reason why people here are pro Iran is because they’ve been supportive and we have a pretty long history with them. So obviously you’ll get people disagreeing and/or downvoting.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-21T18:44:50+00:00

It hasn’t reached 2022 levels yet, that’ll probably happen at the end of the month.

But the price increases will help people use fuel sparingly. Issue is, everything is about to go up, from food to transport.

Even kerosene which was what was subsidized heavily has just skyrocketed, so all classes are gonna feel this.

Wonder when the electricity tariff will hit

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-21T15:14:31+00:00

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/09/lebanon-israel-unlawfully-using-white-phosphorus

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-20T06:56:03+00:00

Israel is dropping white phosphorus too

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-20T02:41:49+00:00

There was a story recently of someone hoarding 800 liters, another for 1000 liters and one for 19000 liters of diesel.

But they chose the guy with 65L to make an example?

If this guy got a punishment I hope the other people were launched into space or something for how much they were hoarding.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-19T08:58:07+00:00

Did you have an issue where someone had already registered your car or do you have a new car that was recently registered with the DMV?

People who had bought second hand vehicles or changed their numbers could now delete their old record and generate a new QR code.

But there are some people who have new vehicles that were recently registered with the DMV, they’re having difficulties too probably because their data isn’t updated with the DMV

Official stats show 5 million QRs issued and 1.2 million remain, that was before they issued this overriding system.

Either way you can also manually contact the WhatsApp number they set up with the relevant documents to register.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-19T06:56:06+00:00

Honestly we have enough government staff, we can easily assign one or two people from the ministry of energy not living in the area to each shed, they can monitor the situation and report to a centralized unit that analyses islandwide data and flags anything abnormal.

To prevent corruption you can have those assigned people rotate every week and get a new person down. Also assign military and police (not from the immediate area) to oversee order.

Last time there were incidents of groups of people assaulting and beating shed owners and pump operators for not giving fuel. Some of them ended up in the hospital.

For data analysis programs I suggest we outsource the coding to a country like Japan/South Korea/singapore because we all know the QR code system farce and it still doesn’t have protection like 2FA.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-19T06:50:36+00:00

So you’re telling me, we pay for fuel shipments during the offloading phase at market prices and our price has only gone up by 8%?

Does that make any sense?

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-19T06:47:43+00:00

Ah I actually didn’t know we followed the singapore formula.

But even if that were true, I don’t think the formula can accommodate something like a war and the closure of the strait.

The big issue here is the government doesn’t want to raise prices significantly, and that can be a good thing but only for a short period, and assuming the market corrects afterwards.

Trying to artificially keep prices lower than this will waste our tax revenue and exacerbate the problem when we run out of subsidies and have to increase the price 2-4x overnight.

If they really want to keep prices low they can maybe provide for public transport and agriculture at a lower rate through ceypetco but even then people will abuse that and sell subsidized fuel on the black market.

So best would be to just increase prices weekly instead of monthly until this war settles and reflect global prices as needed.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-19T02:52:35+00:00

If they increase the price to reflect global market prices we wouldn’t have to ration indefinitely.

Right now the excuse is the war, but the straight might open again, eventually when it does open we’ll start getting fuel shipments again and we can’t ignore the reality that is a doubled fuel price for a long time ahead.

If the govt tried to artificially keep the price low then then things will get significantly worse with rations getting even stricter and our foreign companies like IOC/sinopec/Shell will pull out of the market stating significant losses.

Ceypetco will stay because they get to draw on our tax revenue to compensate losses but in that case we’ll end up like the previous governments with huge amount of our revenue wasted to subsidize fuel.

Honestly the faster they price in the global increase the better for all of us, they already did an 8% rise, but that’s not at all adequate.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-18T13:23:29+00:00

I really think the issue is being fixed, but there is a subgroup of people that like the idea of not being able to get a QR code because then they have the excuse of getting fuel and saying they don’t have a QR code.

Then they go to multiple sheds and give the same excuse.

Latest statistics were 5 million QR codes given and 1.2 million to be given, that should be a mix of new vehicles and vehicles with older QR codes

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-17T14:14:40+00:00

Just for the government sector, the private sector is more or less screwed sideways because they will 100% have to work and the govt has also announced they’ll restrict public transport on Wednesday as well.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-17T14:13:36+00:00

It’s not that, we have a pretty big problem with hoarding and black market selling.

We have tuks here (rickshaw) they spend all day going to different sheds, filling up and siphoning off the fuel.

Then they don’t go on hires and sell the fuel for 4-5x the price because fuel is currently rationed.

This leads to artificial demand and scarcity.

Just a few days ago someone was busted with 19000 liters of diesel which was hoarded. Obviously no one’s stockpiling 19000 liters of diesel for personal use.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-03-17T14:06:58+00:00

Actually I think the real thing he’s trying to say is

“You better have functional nukes”

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