re: #845 Obdicut

You don’t have a farm to bet. If you did, it wouldn’t pay for if you were wrong about this.

The fact that other companies have a great safety record is absolutely wonderful. But it doesn’t mean that some company can’t be acquired by, say, the kind of shits that run Massey.

This failure has not only revealed that some companies will cut corners and cause disasters, but also that the supposed plan to fix this disaster did not exist. It doesn’t seem to actually exist for any other company, either. That is deeply troubling to me, as even the most competent people will eventually fuck up, a perfect storm of problems will always arise, over time.

So I agree that first and foremost we need to actually validate the response plans of other companies.

You’re missing the point. They cut corners with the permission of our regulators. Let’s not pretend as if this was some hidden series of darkly evil decisions.

Don’t you understand? The plan is secondary. Primary is not having another boom. We can control that…by saying “no, you can’t cut this corner”.

Honestly, this is why half of the republican wing wants to wipe out entire governmental departments. Because an entire department will fuck up beyond all recognition and people act as if they were powerless to ever prevent X in the first place.

Well, if the regulators have no hope (paraphrasing Windy here), then why are we paying them again?