Jason Etheridge @jasonetheridge@qoto.org

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@chidgey Big summer is well and truly here. We've had a pretty good run of cooler days, so I'm okay with that. :)

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@trinsec Definitely! And there's the fact that critical thinking may make kids more skeptical of advertising. Might mess with them becoming good consumers... I don't think there's a nefarious plot, but I could imagine it'd be easier for all concerned if the kids weren't too skeptical.

@trinsec Maybe we weren't so badly off! But I really, really enjoy being able to look up facts in near real time, though. I find myself not wanting to go back.

I thought teaching kids critical thinking at school might help inoculate them to conspiracy garbage. Maybe it would? I guess it hasn't really been tried yet.

Remember in the pre-internet days when you had to go to the library to lookup facts? Or your own (outdated) set of encyclopaedias?

I guess we just didn't know any better at the time, and lived with ambiguity! Hard to imagine now.

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This is exactly the kind of corporate insanity that would make a great Dilbert cartoon.

Bloomberg: Blizzard Manager Departs In Protest of Employee Ranking System.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-23/blizzard-manager-departs-in-protest-of-employee-ranking-system

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@trinsec I hadn't put together the utter flatness of the Netherlands and how that would make pumped hydro impossible. :)

Regarding modular nuclear reactors, the primary reason they're a good idea is that nuclear plants have previously been bespoke, making regulatory approval a nightmare (has to be done fresh every time). With a modular, smaller design, you get the tick of approval from regulators, and then you mass produce them.

I'm guessing that biofuels will eventually be producible at scale, which are carbon neutral and will work in current internal combustion engines. Electric cars are great, but until we get a different battery technology, producing enough batteries given the raw materials required is going to be a problem. Not to discount hydrogen, but as Sabine pointed out, there are some real limitations.

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