I do wish Q had never said "there are no coincidences" without qualifying what that really entails. A lot of people have expanded that comment into "there are no coincidences, ever, anywhere or any time". The modern world is a complex machine. Like all complex machines, failures happen sometimes. Some of those failures overlap with other failures. Normally we would never consider some rather mundane and disparate events hundreds or thousands of miles apart as this is just a normal part of the world today. Under the hypervigilant and rather paranoid watch of people trying to connect all the dots, some normal events get swept up into the mix when they are not a part of the happenings. Some ATMs not working, a couple of power substation accidents and an internet backbone provider outage are all actually common enough to discount as mostly background noise that is not part of the signal. If I had a dollar for all the times ATMs or credit/debit card point of purchase machines were down in my city, I would have a lot of money that I couldn't get out of an ATM because it was down. Same with the power substation incidents. They happen. Really, they do. Two happening in a short time across the country? Sure. That's how randomness works. If a person can win back-to-back lotteries (which has happened) with those amazing odds, then a couple of substations can go bang due to equipment faults which have much lower odds. And as for CenturyLink...well you better look into how often Level3 has failed. These major backbone providers are fallible. They have to replace equipment live in situ, update software/firmware on the fly and add new equipment too. These involve humans making decisions and performing tasks. Humans make mistakes. These mistakes sometimes cause major issues. CenturyLink employs people and they do tasks and make decisions. Guess what that means? Yup. One backbone provider going down is bad, but remember the internet does not rely on a single backbone. The net lived because it is designed to route around issues. It's not the same issue here as losing all major backbones. Just like not all ATMs or substations failed. Get it? Coincidences are real and not always connected to the Q happenings. Think for yourselves. Be skeptical. Learn then think then feel. Got it?