With five classes on this week’s critical/ethics topic of “Countries”, I got a lot of varied opinions from the kids today. One girl in particular was fixated on power plugs.
What are some disadvantages of the fact the world is split up into different countries? “The power plugs are different. You have to take adapters wherever you travel.”
Some time in the future, it might be possible to abolish countries and have everyone on Earth be one big community. What challenges would we face if we tried to do this? “We’d have to change all the power plugs so they’re the same everywhere around the world.”
In between classes I took another trip to the post office to send off more cards – this time a bulk lot of Netrunner sealed packs (vintage 1996!), with a couple of Magic cards thrown in.
And I did some comic writing. Struggling with a series of interconnected dialogue that needs several strips written out in full before I can make them.
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I take it you didn’t mention the Japanese power grids and the different frequencies in the different parts of the country…
That was my first thought when I read this! Half of Japan is on 60Hz, the other half on 50Hz.
Ha, no, I forgot about that.