US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it costs only $300M
This article has an unexpected resonance for me after several weeks of pandemic lockdown. Just three months ago I would have laughed it off. Now I am increasingly pissed off.<p>In the US, but I see reflection of this in Europe as well, has allowed irresponsible puerile imbeciles to be elected. These people play games with wealth and power, with no regard to the lives and well-being of the society that pays for it. I did not mention any party, that perennial misdirection to their collective heist. Also don&#x27;t fall for the other smoke screen of small vs. big government. I demand at least a competent government.<p>For politicians truth is whatever you make people believe it to be.<p>Meanwhile engineers and scientists struggle daily to find the hard facts of the world to painstakingly build or discover something that improves lives. We should be disgusted and revolted at who is leading us right now. We should drive these fools out office and strip them of any respect.<p>If we don&#x27;t, there will be no one competent left in position to rebuild from this, or the next, catastrophe that &quot;nobody&quot; could have expected. Or maybe there will be some states or localities that can get their act together, and the rest will be a wasteland of warring cultural and racial tribes.