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“It’s been called the world’s biggest interconnected machine and that’s probably pretty close to the truth. Call it seven thousand power plants, fifty thousand substations, and two hundred thousand miles of transmission lines.”
The key is SCADA—the supervisory control and data acquisition systems.
Pavel Kedrov, the director of the SVR, but with the president of Russia himself.
course, they could have spent their time and resources making Russia a prosperous, respected, and productive country in its own right. But that was too difficult. Instead, they’d sink the boat containing all of humanity
because they believed their life vests were the most buoyant.
Nothing frightened autocrats more than a successful democracy.
These people were complete fucking idiots. And worse, they were complete fucking idiots who thought they were geniuses. The most dangerous kind, but just the kind the American people loved to vote for.
Humans really were just monkeys throwing feces. They’d grandstand for a while and then make a few backroom deals that led to absolutely no action at all.
You could bring a human to water, but you couldn’t make him drink. The unfairly maligned horses that were the subject of the original proverb, on the other hand, were smart enough to know a good thing when they saw it.
“Never confuse delivery with content,” he said, muting the feed.
