Don't forget about Crimean power outages before the Russian annexation. And the cyber breadcrumbs we've found in our dams and power stations. Oh, and I hear Ven

Don't forget about Crimean power outages before the Russian annexation. And the cyber breadcrumbs we've found in our dams and power stations. Oh, and I hear Venezuela is coming out of a 4-day blackout right as we're ramping up all our aid/regime-change talk... About a year ago there was a major transformer that blew in downtown SF, knocking most of the fidi offline. I didn't think much of it -- stuff breaks, and this was pre-PG&E fiasco -- but then I heard the same thing happened in NYC and another major city (maybe Seattle?) that same morning. Things break regularly, and there's always some 3-city combined probability function, but it still made me glance over my metaphorical shoulder. Ideally we'll still be too scared to use nukes in the next hot war. Everything else that makes modern life bearable is fair game, though. [edit]: LA was the third city, and all failures were traced to physical faults/aging infrastructure: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/power-outages-la-sf-nyc https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/power-outages-la-sf-nyc Like I said, there always is a combined probability function, but point is we're gonna be doing a lot more glancing over our metaphorical shoulders the more we see stories like this.