

Yeah in martial arts there is a concept of ‘minimum effective effort’ by various names. Essentially you do the minimum possible to be be effective in your defence/offence but withhold as much energy as possible for the next threat- that’s what this is, the minimum required effort to put out regular content to rile up the hogs. If the hogs are riled, that’s great, you’re done. Only work harder if the hogs start to question the slop.
This is also amazing as the government tries every possible avenue not to pay to upgrade the grid - because the grid is (of course) owned by a private company who the government says should pay for and manage upgrades itself, but National Grid PLC and the various other companies who run the grid have no real incentive to upgrade and build new capacity and hundreds of hurdles (planning issues, power generation capacity, demand management issues) that can’t be unblocked by a private company, issues that require government input, which the government won’t provide (for reasons). It’s almost like having a public utility like the power grid be a private company not a part of the government was a bad idea.