99.999% is about 5 minutes and 16 seconds of downtime per year.

12 services down perfectly sequentially works out to 76 minutes per year, not 2hours per week.

Not saying there aren’t applications where that can’t be catastrophic, but you’re scale is off for three 9 downtime.

You can also just have a governor that stops applying power. Like legal ebikes currently have.

Children have been launching themselves down steep hills since before electric devices.

10 deaths per year: we need to do something about regulating these and having a maximum speed. (To be clear, I think we should).

200 deaths per year from cars and trucks for 0-19: There’s nothing we can do!

Possibly. My take is also informed by how many security threats critical infrastructure recieve every day (or at least how many they recieved when I was in the sector).

I’m not saying that. I’m saying there doesn’t need to be a public notification for every incorrect bomb scare.

It was a false positive. Just create panic for nothing?

Rephrased, Canadians only need to spend 35% on living essentials; down from 65%

McGuinty says that while the province hasn’t formally asked for military help

Because provinces never formally ask for military help. They put in a request for assistance to the federal government, which decides what federal assistance (which can include military) will be provided, and what the terms are for ending the assistance.