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by hirako2000284 days ago |

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Isn't it amazing? In movies, evil terrorists take out the grid all the time (or threaten to), to terrible consequences, and they need genius hackers to do so. In reality, it's easy peasy and still, people hardly ever do it (and nobody (ish) dies if they do). Humans are good!

by pjc50284 days ago|

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent

Yes, you can try to hold the country hostage for your salary by going on strike, but that's the sort of thing that results in very energetic union-busting.

Actually sabotaging the infrastructure would result in terrorism charges, or at the very least the JSO treatment.

by MisterTea284 days ago|

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> what would it take for a few humans who intentionally cut off power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_attack

Unsolved to this day.

by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe284 days ago|

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I mean i'm pretty sure there are laws in place everywhere to avoid a single pay raise strike doing nation wide catastrophic events. Hospitals for example are usually limited in how they can strike.

by genewitch284 days ago|

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That's assuming the people who want to strike care about having a job afterward. I know the state hospitals stop loss people when there's a disaster, so I keep abreast of predictable disasters and tell my wife and friends "hey you're sick, go get a doctor's note for the rest of the week" and then they're not stuck at the hospitals for days during a disaster.

Not that type of hospital.

by Noumenon72284 days ago|

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What kind of person fakes illness expressly so they don't have to help out during an actual disaster when their skills are needed? "Whenever I hear there's a fire, I tell my firefighter friends to take the battery out of their pager so they won't have to go fight the fire." I agree we owe these people better treatment than just mandating they work heroic hours, but this only makes things worse on those who comply with the mandate.

by genewitch283 days ago|

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My neighborhood and community is more important than the hospital; the friends i mentioned specifically are also radio operators, so they have more important things to do during a disaster than be a warm body at not that type of hospital. A sanitarium.

The low-wage workers can get triple-time and take weeks off "later in the year" for covering the stop-loss, so they also benefit.

I don't call fire fighters, because they are emergency responders. Please note i said what i do, not what i think other people should do. The people i tell this to are free to do with that information what they want, i don't demand it or anything.

Consider this a contextual error on my part. It's more of an "inside baseball" snippet of conversation than anything that requires judgement.

by Noumenon72278 days ago|

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Thanks for explaining what I didn't have the context for.