Re:Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old
by JoeAltmaier on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:11AM
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I don't live in CA, so local news there doesn't get very far.
Re:Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old
by ilikeathechacha on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:14AM
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Well then it’s good I offered three major incidents, two outside of California, that received worldwide attention, but thanks for the detailed engagement on my point.
The California power grid fires were on the television in a pub in northern England last time I was there, not to put too fine a point on it. Speaking of, you should visit Europe and get back to me on infrastructure, especially continental transit. I’m an American and even I’m tired of Amerisuperiority, because it’s that kind of willful ignorance that drives said underinvestment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/asce-gi...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis
Politicians like cutting ribbons in their district. They do not like investing in maintenance, and operators are left to scrape together budgets to make things work. They often make bad calls because they’re forced to.
This has been known for several decades.
The electrical grid in San Jose failed dramatically because someone, yet to be identified, hit a substation off 101 with a rifle. Power engineers constantly warn about incoming failures if we don’t invest in security and maintenance, and power grid security has recently become a Homeland Security concern. The power grid in California has evolved into literally killing people, and they have to turn it off when it’s windy. Yeah. Unparalleled. Your mildly xenophobic subtext of knocking power grids in non-American contexts is noted, but throwing stones and all.
I struggle to imagine a scenario where all of this is news to you.