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Every day that I actually go in to the office I pass hundreds of people that believe society is dependable. That their money can be depended on being accessible from a wall no matter what. That the supply lines work, that payment traffic is safe. That the power distribution network is secure. None of those things are true. Even without considering the fundamentally unsafe nature of nearly every IT system (yes, banks and governments too) in the EU, which you really should be doing, every type of payment traffic that happens digitally goes through a network under US control. As an entity, the EU hasn't been capable of creating 5g telecommunications networks since the very outset (the technical work is notoriously and exclusively handled by Chinese contractors. I see no issues with that, but I do see an issue with this fundamental belief that it could function independently). Important infrastructural companies (freight, by rail and road) fundamentally don't understand how to even start caring about making something reliable and resilient. There are no working paper fallbacks. No internet, no payment traffic, no cell reception? Everything stops working. Until it comes back. Sometimes I kind of wish to go back to a time before I learned to estimate real risk, read the advisories, saw the systems in practice. Because I also believed that everything was okay. It feels bad to live in a house made of sand, and it feels even worse that nearly everyone around me believes it's brick. No matter how many examples they see.