Unfortunately it boils down to which company owns them and the amount of $$ they’re willing to spend. Most new substations being built all have solid walls, for example, rather than the much-cheaper chain-link fence, which helps a little, but not by much for someone who really wants to get in there. Rarely will a company do any cosmetic updates to an already-built substation, so I’m not surprised the ones in your area haven’t changed.
The issue for making them more secure as far as I can tell (I’m fairly new to this field, and a designer, not an engineer, so my technical knowledge is still limited) is how volatile high-voltage electricity is. I’m not really sure what could be done to encase a substation against an attack that secures it against an outside projectile, while still being safe for on-site workers. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of voltages here, and most substations are ginormous.
I don’t agree with the size of the wealth gap between owner and regular employee, but I don’t understand why people think the heads of these companies - and I’m talking the ones that started them from nothing - did no work or continue to do no work. It’s pretty ludicrous to think that the low level employees at Amazon are doing “all the work.” Are they doing all the grunt work? Yes. Is their job the most physically demanding? Yes. Are they underpaid? Yes. But to pretend like the owner does nothing is just so idiotic and shows a lack of understanding of what goes into running a massive organization like amazon.
There definitely needs to be reform. I don’t even think taxation is the way to go, I think putting laws in place for higher wages is key.
I’m pretty good at sensing the emotions of people around me. It’s not magic like some people think, but an obsessive awareness of small facial and body movements.
Oh, and writing dialogue is super easy for me, not sure why some people have a hard time with it.
Because humans are complex creatures able to have a multitude of emotions at once while also not feeling other emotions at all. Our brains are masters at compartmentalizing. Think of those at the tops of the nazi regime, the elites. They had family members, and would be devastated if their family members died, but they also knew the truth about how many jews they were slaughtering and torturing per day. A great movie example is The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, where a nazi government official overseeing a death camp has so much genuine love for his family, while having no issues overseeing the task of killing mass amounts of jews in the day-to-day.
Villans in the stories we tell are no different. A character, whether good or evil, is only interesting if their emotions are as complex as real humans’ are, otherwise they feel flat, like cardboard, or boring and unrealistic. Real humans who have personality disorders where they don’t feel emotions tend to learn quickly how to pretend to have them. Isn’t that wild?
Fall of Civilization. His voice is absolutely soothing and the topics of how certain people found these lost Civilizations and then how they fell into ruin is super interesting.