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> Huh. The power for most of Marin County, California (just north of San Francisco) was turned off ... Perhaps the commenter isn't from the USA?

• hollerith 3y ago
  Well, sure, I never thought he was. I'm interested in how well the US is run compared to other places in the world, and reliable provision of electricity seems to me a good barometer of how well a place is run.
  • jtbayly 3y ago
    "The US" doesn't have power outages. Even most states don't have power outages. But yes, there are some poorly run places in the US.
    • hollerith 3y ago
      OK, but I bet they have US Federal judges where you live in the US, too. Again: the 48-hour almost-county-wide outage was caused AFAICT by an order by a Federal judge, the effects of which most educated rational people would have been able to predict.
      • jtbayly 3y ago
        So you're trying to convince me that more centralization of power is good, so that a federal judge that screwed up one county can be replaced by a cabal that can screw up the whole country?
        • hollerith 3y ago
          No, I wasn't trying to convince you of that. In fact, so far I haven't even been able to picture what you are saying.