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Yeah, I am going with the general idea that most disasters are really an accumulation of small mistakes, unlikely events, bits overlooked, that just happen to line up, all aided by the normalization of deviance. And it is frightening because each and every one of us is subject to this kind of thing unless we develop an unhealthy-in-all-other-respects obsession with repetitive checking. Familiarity brings contempt for safety procedures.


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