I've actually been peripherally involved in something like this, I think it was September 2000, maybe a few months later.
An ATC system where they had two networks, the "office" network and the "core business of actually directing flights" network. The offices were around 10 miles away from the airport, which is where the ATC mainframe and - obviously- the ATC tower were. There was a bridge between the networks.
There were building works going on in the city, and they cut the cables while excavating. The agreement with the provider was that there would be two high speed lines and that they would not be in the same bundles of cables (or maybe glass fibre, if that was a "thing" back then). Unfortunately they had not insisted in the cables being in the separate ditches. The excavator cut both connections.
This should not have been a problem, two separate networks right? The critical one was at the airport and the whole point of that setup was so things would carry on if the offices were cut off. Most of the network group worked in the offices rather than at the airport. Some component was in the offices, the router at the airport was set up so that the control traffic to that component had the highest priority.
Bottom line, the core network was nominally unaffected, but a router there was trying to reach the office network and it was using all of its processor power for that. The core network pretty much came to a standstill. I can't remember how long that outage lasted but it was several hours.

Lessons were learned and all that.
The offices moved to a new location a year or so later, something which had been in preparation for a few years by then. New offices, new cables, whatever.
In 2003 (or maybe early 2004) something similar happened, an excavator chopped the connection. I was working on the mainframes at the airport from the offices so obviously I was affected, I just drove to the airport and carried on from there, everything worked exactly as it was supposed to - the offices could communicate with each other and the ATC Tower had full access to the ATC mainframes. It took a few hours before the two networks were linked to each other again but nobody outside noticed anything.

Has he done anything Elon Musk has not also done?
The only "possible" is sleeping with someone who is believed to be a Chinese spy, and I don*'t have access to his "friends" list to see if Russian spies are in there.

Microsoft used to use predefined NTP servers to set users' clocks, no provision for spreading the load and no consultation before they did it. Maybe millions of XP clients every day, and large numbers of them at pretty much the same time.
What could go wrong?
Oh.

even if Germany has made some dumb decisions in the last decade wrt to shutting nukes

That decision was taken after the tsunami wrecked Fukushima and that happened in March 2011, something which makes for a very long "decade". I never saw the immediate point, the chances of an earthquake triggering a tsunami which takes out a nuclear power station are not that high in Germany.

I feel the same way. Can I suggest the following interview for your peruse?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I guess they didn't threaten your sovereignty?

It's easier than that. Just buy European - period. The rest of the world is going to do the same thing BTW. Everyone knows European products are the best cause of good regulations. And we won't pull the plug out of things we sell you for no reason.

I do IT projects for government entities and the magic word right now is sovereignty. They are cutting out US and Chinese manufacturers from the entire supply chain. Byebye Cisco, Broadcom, Dell, HP, IBM, etc.

You can't make us buy US stuff if we refuse, and that's exactly what's happening.

Well, we're doing it anyway. I work for government agencies in the EU and they have only 1 priority right now: sovereignty. And that means removing the US and China out of every single supply chain you can think of. And that means this money is no longer flowing to US companies, which I think people are not quite understanding at the moment. This is going to have a huge impact on these companies if 500 million of the richest people on earth start spending their money somewhere else. If I were an investor I would be getting my money out of the US right now, because there will be a reckoning for what Trump did to us.

Are you saying there was a smoking gun when it came to Huawei? All I ever saw was politicians claiming they could be doing something bad but never any form of proof, or even what they were supposed to be doing which was bad. This was during Donald's first Administration and it was luminaries like Tom Cotton jumping onto the bandwagon but never actually making substantative claims.

It's a digital bank and somewhere deep in Slashdot's bowels, the two are linked.

1. The world hasn't had time to react yet. I do projects for the public sector in Europe, and #1 on every list is "sovereignty". And they're not talking about China. It is about removing the US from the supply chain completely.

2. Trump/Hegseth shut down the new drone division of the US army just cause they hated its general. In the meantime the EU is working with Ukraine to produce drones. What use is an aircraft carrier when you can build half a million drones for the same budget? And as for a coast guard, we have plenty of those. Don't worry. As for the EU military being jobs programs, you're talking about the 1980s. You see, in the EU we hire decent people for the military, not the refuse of society like in the US.

3. It's true that EU education level is dropping, but the education level in the US is dropping too, and it was never decent to begin with. In the EU education exists to educate people, in the US it exists to prepare workers for industry. Also we've been dealing with Trumps for decades because we have better working constitutions and electoral systems. Sure, let Le Pen come and be president, and see how she fares. I'll get ready with some popcorn. For reference look at Italy and see how the extreme right is doing there. They're in power, but they can't destroy the company because the EU won't let them.

4. You were never propping up anyone. The Marshall plan wasn't a gift - they were loans, and loans that could only be used to buy American equipment. The EU made the US rich.

And of course we want the US to be rich and prosperous. You seem to forget that the economy is not a zero sum game.

I'm not familiar with the support the NYT gave the Nazis, but there's always the Daily Mail.

Given the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, I usually assume incompetence.
Someone put that far more eloquently several years ago, but I forgot their words.

Good thing they don't do anything complicated up there like scheduling trains. Or airplanes.

Good job that the computers they use when scheduling trains or aircraft are using some form of Unix (or IBM big iron).

Youtube is full of 10's of thousands of videos of very confidently wrong cops

Some of which are marked as AI generated, and some which are not marked as such. I've seen some very plausible YouTube videos which then failed simple fact checking.
In this case though, a policeman simply decided that Ms. Crump's car was "the one" and ignored evidence to the contrary, maybe demoting him would be sufficient punishment. I do agree with King_TJ in the comment above though, there's a good chance that the vehicle owner is milking this incident in order to get that vehicle replaced (and serves the police right for supplying her with possible cause).