ThePowerOfGeek

Good article.

We need a version of the UK government’s National Risk Register, covering everything from the collapse of financial markets to “an attack on government” (but, unsurprisingly, that risk is described in terms of external threats). The register mostly predicts long-term consequences, with recovery taking months. That may end up being the case here.

I assume they mean on a state government level? I doubt this will happen, unless it's already started. Plus, as they point out, such plans typically focus on external threats to the government. A huge internal threat like this is a long-standing blind spot. Hopefully in the future that prospect becomes a more prominent concern.

We need to dust off those “in the event of an emergency” disaster response procedures dealing with the failure of federal government—at individual organizations that may soon hit cash-flow problems and huge budget deficits without federal funding, at statehouses that will need to keep social programs running, and in groups doing the hard work of archiving and preserving data and knowledge.

This is a great point. DRPs (Disaster Recovery Plans) have been a pretty big focus on organizations I've worked at. However, the focus here is almost always on natural disasters that can cripple an organization's IT and daily operations. So I don't know how much those will help in this situation either.

We're talking about short term credit lines potentially being crippled and regulatory organizations essentially shutting down. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.

Yeah, most of them are pathetic. Although the one thing I remember when they are throwing all that shit at us is: that means we've REALLY got under their skin!

And yes, the "how many trophies?!" argument is pathetic. My retort to that is: and how many legal charges of cheating do we have? Yeah, you're beating us there 115 to nil! Well done!

But give it another few months and most of them will be switching their allegiance to Liverpool.

The shit just can't help themselves but to try to one-up us. We lose 2-0 away in the league cup. Tottenham: "hold my beer... we're going to lose by double that away!"

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You know Elon, it would probably be better if you and your DOGE minions went off to Mars to check it out. You know, 'if you want a job done right then do it yourself'?

So yeah, head off to Mars. And never return!

Same here. It's perplexing.

I suspect on a fundamental level a lot of it is fear of change and lose of influence. But it masquerades as frustration over 'wokeness', 'political correctness', and whatever new term or acronym has been spun in a negative way at that moment.

And Musk to block Starlink from Australia.

Haha, me too. 🤝

Hey, I've seen moderators massively screw up smaller communities than this! 😆

Fuck it. Let's just throw some subs on and let them get some playing time. Calafiori in for MLS, Tierney in for Trossard, ~~Nwaneri in for Martinelli~~, Setford in for Raya, Merino in for Rice.

Vamos!