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DCI Barnaby yet again stumbles upon a murder case in a quaint village. Questions start piling up when he uncovers some of the locals linking up through an obscure computer network known as Mastodon:

Where is the mysterious John Mastodon? What exactly is bloomscrolling? And who is ready to murder for the perfect image of a clump of moss?

#microfiction

@grimm@norden.social Great piece! A few comments:

1. AFAIK electrification will save 40% of ship traffic because there's no need to move fossils around.

@mrxlix@dresden.network I would like everyone drafted for practical public resilience lessons on how to:

• Fight fires
• Give first aid and do triage
• Survive under austere conditions
• Help kids, elderly and disabled survive
• Restore basic infrastructure
• Escape, block or apprehend attackers
• Self organize emergency response
• Locate missing people
• Evacuate an area properly
• Communicate effectively

This common understanding would make us much stronger, bonus points for international standards and a kit in very house.

As far as we need people with actual military training, none of this would be wasted. @ennolenze@infosec.exchange

@grimm@norden.social 2. The limit here is range, not size. For any vehicle you can calculate a range based on how far it can go if it carries nothing but fuel. Practical range will of course be a lot below that.

For ships (but not so much cars and planes), bigger is better, because water resistance grows as the square of ship width but load grows as the cube. This was Brunel's great insight that launched the transoceanic steamers.

We should expect electrification to work best in large slow ships that won't have to travel far.

For cars, bikes and planes the chances are best for slow vehicles traveling short distances, and size is less important. Stopping for a charge is of course much easier in a car 😄