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Relay engineer, professional worst-case scenario predictor, mad online. He/Him Infrastructure should not be for-profit

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worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · Nov 16

Pinned thread for my attempts at "EnergySky protection class" - I'll be going through various protection topics and relay types as I think of them, for anyone who's interested in knowing about one of the grid's lesser-discussed features. Hope it helps!

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worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 8h

Hard, in that case, to tell apart from "I made my account when I was 12 and changing it is hard"

worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah and frankly even everything else aside it would be bonkers to say that up to and including early college

worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah no, I'm sorry, being good at math alone won't even make you a good engineer, this is terrible advice

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worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 12h

I just think it's worth people knowing that, much as I like to indulge in paranoia myself, a strong storm is not all that's required to cause problems

worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 12h

I will note, those conditions CAN exist, the lines between Hudson Bay in Canada and their loads in the south are generally the worst case. Handful of lines in the US have had past issues, none where I work, most utilities put in monitors to alarm as needed just in case though

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worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 15h

Suffice that this protection engineer sleeps fine during solar storms

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worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 15h

I'll be watching the protection systems but having done a bunch of work on this some years ago the requirements for GMD to cause real issues on the grid are *very* specific, you need long lines going in the right direction across the right geological strata...

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worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 15h

This whole thread is good but, this is the big thing to know

Tansy Kelly Robson @artemisapphire.bsky.social · 17h

So the point here is

Your customer service is shit, your products are shit, your banking is shit, TV is shit, well, everything is shit because as long as the share price increases, the company doesn't actually gives a fuck if the product or service is shit

Because they're making money

16/n

a man in a suit and sunglasses is holding a bunch of money and throwing it in the air .

ALT: a man in a suit and sunglasses is holding a bunch of money and throwing it in the air .

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"fart" @jonhendren.com · 1d

they are able to peel back the ACA because its a shitty half measure but if we had gotten real universal healthcare instead no one would dare touch it because literally everybody on all sides would flip out. one more reason why Democratic incrementalism and "pragmatism" is fucking stupid !!!!!

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worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry but as an engineer I have used nothing but shortcut rules for over a decade and I don't plan on changing that

worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 1d

just a hollow man with mostly bad ideas who accidentally convinced the world he was smart, then fucked up the grift and has been desperately chasing that high

worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 1d

*squeaks* say my name

worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 1d

So the entire problem is that no one believes the Dem Senate leadership is actually in the fight on the side we want. You can't have unity with someone who is sabotaging you in the open

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 1d

A quick thread about why the image below and its implications terrify me.

My father, for many reasons, was a saint of a man. As he grew older, into his mid 80s, he developed issues separating dreams from reality, especially when waking up from naps.

NYBob 💙 @nybob.bsky.social · 1d

This guy has the codes to nuclear weapons.

Yeah, this guy 👇

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worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 1d

I was so baffled by his death as a kid, now looking back it's hilarious and an *almost* MGS2-style audience-bait

worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 1d

Solid action movie, lots of really solid performances and good characters. They did the premise justice. Just a fun watch. Maybe my second favorite Bill Paxton character too

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Michael McLean @mclean.bsky.social · 2d

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worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 2d

sigh
you know, I'm told I have an anxiety disorder, that I'm too pessimistic, but I keep being fucking right

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 2d

[stops fighting] “We will keep fighting.”

Uhh no fuckface, you JUST STOPPED.

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worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 2d

There is maybe one politician I trust less on these matters than Chuck

Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 2d

Senate Democrats are meeting behind closed doors to discuss the emerging deal. “Stay tuned,” Schumer tells us with a grin.

worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 3d

This is the December you fight your dad

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worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 3d

Unfortunately electrical work after the drywall is on fuckin sucks, from experience

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

hey guys isn't it weird how they're all saying this at the same time? ignore the fact that this is now happening with Tyler Cowen, an economist who sits at the center of a sprawling system of think tanks and policy "influencers" who have been laundered into DC with both Koch and SV VC money

More Perfect Union
@MorePerfectUS
In a new podcast Sam Altman says: " When something gets sufficiently huge ... the federal government is kind of the insurer of last resort, as we've seen in various financial crises ... given the magnitude of what I expect AI's economic impact to look like, I do think the government ends up as the insurer of last resort."

A video still of Sam Altman sitting in a chair, talking into a mic next to Tyler Cowen

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worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 3d

Almost impossible to overstate how damaging it is to successfully excise from your life everyone capable of telling you "no"

rich traditions @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

this is happening across the board. it's why products suck. it's why musk and bezos and all of them are insane. it's why zuckerberg blew a fortune on miis that went nowhere. no one is around to say you're an idiot and shut your mouth before someone else hears you

worst-case scenario engineer @worstcaseeng.bsky.social · 4d

You know actually, I make a tamale pie with a cornbread topper, I wonder if you could make like a fritos cornbread biscuit topper