I feel like for internal government communications you might not want it to be open source.

Doesnt mean everyone else should want to use it.

It’s not so much laziness as the reason you’ve given - everyone else is on WhatsApp. Why would I move to a new messaging app when I literally can’t message the people I want to message on it cause they don’t have it.

I gamed on PC for many years and basically only moved to a console when I had kids a few a years back.

Both have benefits. For me, I like the not being distracted by other stuff on the console. Like if I sit down to game, on PC I’d often just end up on YouTube, twitch, check reddit, emails, whatever. I like that my console I just use for gaming.

I still play on my PC from time to time and there’s obviously games that are only on PC, but my preference is console for the current phase of life and that’s fine for me.

I can also buy and sell console games 2nd hand though which isn’t possible on PC anymore.

That said, PC piracy probably wins overall if you’re looking the absolute cheapest option. But that’s kind of a different set of arguments.

For parts of the world ‘free bank’ and ‘free transfers’ are just the norm anyway. I’m amazed it isn’t the case in the US already.

I don’t think the solution to that problem though is having multiple, smaller, unconnected grids.

I think it’s to just have a more resilient grid system that doesn’t have any areas that are a single point of a failure

It makes my blood boil much more than it really ought to.

I’ve never seen the tree and have basically no connection to it. But just seems so senseless and destructive.

How will these protests lead to meaningful change? Do you think this form of protest will result in any more success than aforementioned ‘right way’?

Sure - but what do the attendees of a gaming conference have to do with new oil wells being approved?

The idea a student was struggling with one way of solving the problem and teaching them alternative methods never occurred because it was “outside the curriculum”.

It’s a tough balance of being ‘outside the curriculum’ vs ‘they don’t have time’. There’s lot of methods of doing most things in maths. Teachers usually will be trying to take an evidence-based approach of which method is supposedly the most effective for the most people (but unfortunately won’t be the most effective for everyone. And then with the amount stuffed into our school curriculum, there just isn’t time to cover the alternate methods

Which countries are you referring to out of interest?

We do need more people to work in certain industries. Not necessarily more people in general, but there are absolutely industries that relied on foreign nationals to help them meet staffing levels and after Brexit they aren’t meeting those. This is partly due to UK citizens feeling they are ‘too good’ to do certain types of work, though more and more are now taking these roles as there are no other options as our country becomes poorer.