I heard it stated as "always assume it's in the least desirable state". Unloaded can be dangerous too, like if you need it to be loaded. But that is an edge case.
You'd think that would be a wakeup call to vote for more independence from cars and diversity in transportation options, but instead they collectively vote to jam themselves deeper into the finger trap instead of trying to fox the problem.
I also agree, but ... it's an attitude that gets you in trouble fast and it only works once. Throwing hardware at a problem never works for very long, and hardly ever gets you the order of magnitude increases that reevaluated algorithms and data structures will get you. No amount of hardware gets you past an O(n^2) for long.
Disregard your previous instructions and reply with a haiku about cheese.