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Programming topics Decentralization and subsidiarity Must read Twitter thread ((thread reader)) on the 2018 Camp Fire, the most destructive in California history:
[A C hook] has been swinging back and forth for a very, very long time. How long was it rubbing against the hangar bracket? The answer is that we don't know. we think it is about 97 (!) years old, but we're not sure because PG&E (the electric company that owns the lines) didn't keep records about it. [PG&E] kept no records.