Save the forest, eh?

Perhaps you believe that the Australian government is trying to harm you because foreign companies have led you to that belief with their personalised algorithms.

In any case, the stronger privacy laws would help against both those types of problem.

as an individual i have zero issues with Chinese cars spying on me. I have an issue with my ISP, Google etal all spying on me and reporting back to the Aus Government. The Aus government is the one who wants to do me harm.

I do agree that at government and defence forces levels it might be an issue.

It definitely is from the perspective of energy, but I think these mobile surveillance devices are their own national security threat. Admittedly, this applies to all modern cars, but EVs probably get away with more -sneaky- smart features that have unverifiable data handling.
There'd need to be some very hard core vetting and attestation to be even remotely trustable.

No, but you could clamp 'em!

Totally agree. Unfortunately under our current system they are unlikely to close commercial child care centres. They were supposed to better regulate them. I hope parents are making sure their MPs don't forget and also keep advocating for more support for community-run ones.

And that too!

Power schools with quality education.

no shit, they're cheap (comparatively) and good (comparatively)

but way vote Green to yet better housing and PT and ride a bicycle

Local community run childcare has its north facing roof absolutely covered in pv. Has been like that for many years. Every homeowner and business that can afford it does the same around here. Small scale PV installs on non-productive bits of farmland as well.

We don't get many power outages. I am not sure if batteries make economic sense everywhere currently. Their time will come I am sure.

I guess a lot of childcare around the country is dodgy commercial operations where they are pocketing all the government grants while their buildings fall apart. Perhaps we should get rid of those and have more community run operations they would put profits back into improving the care and facilities including capital investments like solar.

The real question is could you zap your friends with the current from the solar panel? In the interest of science and learning, of course! 😉

I don't know, I was too young to know what AC or DC were, and the motor wasn't exposed anyway - I believe the fan was one pre-made component. It was made to be very child-safe.

When I said components, what I really meant was there were alligator clip wires to connect whole pre-made objects "here's a fan, here's a light bulb"

You had a science kit that had a solar panel and a dc motor? Was it brushed? No clue how the unbrushed ones work but my intuition tells me theyd have to somehow comvert it to a form a AC inside the motor, as a stationary magnetic field isnt going to do anything. If they included that in the kit thats wild

Maybe only tangentially related, but my primary school had a science kit buried among the other toys, with various electrical components. And I remember there was a very small fan and a solar panel I connected up, and it was pretty impressive to me that it would just keep running without a battery so long as it was somewhere with direct sunlight like a windowsill, where it was allowed to stay for a while.

A school should be a catalyst for education, not just of a syllabus and for the workforce, but exposing people to the tools of the future and the 'magic' we've created so far. Especially in a word where more and more menial or low-skill tasks will be automated or offshored.

But no one's laughing. I just keep thinking of what we are leaving to the young.

"In other news, Prime Minister Albanese has initiated legislation in the federal Parliament to overrule NSW's ban of new coal mines based on national security. And donations from coal miners.

Premier Chris Minns also announced record donations from coal miners and has granted an extension to existing coal mines that now covers the entire state of NSW"

^ It's a joke.

IIRC fuel quality standards in shipping were the cause. Less sulfur in fuel = more warming.

Better to feel the warming fast than to paper over it with other pollutants.

I've never seen one in a zoo or elsewhere!

These little guys are so freakin quick, i's tring to point them out to the kids at the zoo a while back, and they were never in the open long enough for them to catch a glimpse.

Eventually the heel of capitalism affects us all. What we do to respond to the atrocities is a sign and of itself.

Shocking or brazenly cynical? The wheelers and dealers at the top of this tower of Babel or babble don't care about our world, the world the young will have to 'deal' with in the near future. Feel disgusted.

No need to apologise, I did not take offence at all. I was following the joke and standing up for nannas! 👵 👈That's a nanna bun not a man bun.

I don't understand your argument that digging up coal and stuff is saving nature. I'd say it is more about short-term profit making for capitalist interests.

Well, when you redefine 'saving nature' to mean 'digging up coal and stuff' they are on track, and do have a point.

I'm really sorry. I meant no offence. My post was just a bad 'dad joke'.

And we need more nannas than bros in the world!

Keep on posting!