vex: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2023-03-17#1025185 2/3 of the surface is water. deffo worth putting seafaring on the reading list
dulapbot: (pest) 2023-03-17 signpost[asciilifeform]: considers this in the context of having spawned. kiddo's going to need to learn to live in the frontier, which will be everywhere.
vex: https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-03-17/farmers-caught-up-in-superannuation-changes/102087902 meanwhile in testnet, the geniusness of the treasury wants to tax notional gains.
vex: I'm not economist, but I wonder who's idea that was.
vex: That's a foot in the door that I personally find very troubling.
vex: I know these people put a lot of effort into modelling the language etc, and it might not get up.
vex: but I smell a seppo
vex: crtdaydreams oughta run for office. first order of business, email wikipedia and have them ammend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
vex: lol. it's even called percieved corruption index. notbad.jpeg
vex: I suppose corruption works best unseen.
vex: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2023-03-15#1025106 this makes me feel nice about Finland.
dulapbot: (pest) 2023-03-15 cgra: somewhat impressed by being able to simply borrow 100yo books from local library (swift's gulliver in finnish + a finnish bio of swift plus few others)
vex: librarian might not have noticed how special it is cgra.
vex: hmm. mage space doesn't seem to make links for outputs anymore. I used "Hot Finnish librarian with white cotton gloves deposits a new book into the Special collection. It's Gulliver's travels."
vex: I got a precise b&w print of a victorian era man in tights. gloved indeed.
vex resists the urge to type in "octopedal jungle feline" again. once was enough. you can't unsee that shit
vex: what happened to fluffypony. did he get his watch back?
vex: stop eating chololate biscuits fluffypony. you're too big