It had the potential for disaster.
Early in the morning of Monday, December 15, 2020, Google suffered a major worldwide outage in which all of its internet-connected services crashed, including Nest, Google Calendar, Gmail, Docs, Hangouts, Maps, Meet and YouTube.
The outage only lasted an hour, but it was a chilling reminder of how reliant the world has become on internet-connected technologies to do everything from unlocking doors and turning up the heat to accessing work files, sending emails and making phone calls.
A year earlier, a Google outage resulted in Nest users being unable to access their Nest thermostats, Nest smart locks, and Nest cameras. As Fast Company reports, “This essentially meant that because of a cloud storage outage, people were prevented from getting inside their homes, using their AC, and monitoring their babies.”
Well, it appears that the US's allegedly "Supreme Court" is well in tune with these values, by throwing out the Texas case, indicating that individual states "have no standing" with regard to whether elections are rigged, or not.
So why don't we get the US Pledge of Allegiance to echo those values, shall we, so school kids get a real understanding of just how bleak their lives are going to be.... if they don't commit suicide as young adults, because the bleakness is just too intense to bear?!? And let's look at an absolutely approved new medical specialty catering to particularly dispossessed kids; assisted suicide from 10 years on, if they cannot face such a future.
So here's the deal; the US Pledge of allegiance should henceforward read and be recited as follows;
I pledge allegiance... the the United States of Thuggocracy; and to the dictatorship for which it stands; one nation... under surveillance and corruption... with zero liberty or justice for most... unless you have the money to buy it!!"