The idea that the entire infrastructure system very specifically designed to be as reliable and reliant to failures as reasonably possible can just fail all at once at that widespread of a scale, turning off essential systems, communication, transportation, everything – is deeply disturbing
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@rail_ I do wonder if it's actually still as reliable and redundant as it is perceived to be.
I've heard a lot of murmurings from a lot of countries about the power grid not being sufficiently resilient anymore because redundant capacity is being used instead to absorb demand spikes and there's no (government) funding to expand the network...
