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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • You can just tell them that your drunk furry friend forgot it at your place. It’s me, I’m the drunk furry friend, and I literally forgot a dog collar at a friend’s place eight years ago and never picked it up because he moved to a different city to go to university and we drifted apart.








  • It’s interesting (though not surprising, I guess) that the impact of economics on the average level of reading comprehension (and presumably other markers of education) per country is the same as it is within those countries. If you take any country that was analysed in this study and look at the distribution of reading comprehension levels in it, the distribution will look roughly the same: those with high socio-economic status (relative to the rest of the population) get high scores, and the poorest tend to get the worst scores.

    It’d be interesting to know what the public attitude to reading and education in general in the analysed countries is and how that interacts with economic factors. Students’ in-school performance is often influenced by their parents’ attittude towards eduction (e.g. education as a means to an end vs education having intrinsic value even without any specific ends), and I wonder how big the impact of society’s attitudes is when compared to economic factors.



  • That reminds me of a joke I saw a few years ago. It went something like, “I first met my online furry friends at a convention. After a few hours, we decided to go to Starbucks for a coffee break. When the barista called for John to pick up their coffee, one of my friends stood up and I told them, ‘No, this coffee is for John. Sit back down, Shadowpaw.’”





  • That’s basically what the last couple of years were like for me. “I just need to finish this project, then I can relax. Okay, new project, but then I’ll be able to relax. A handful of exams, then I’ll have all the time in the world to relax.” By the end of it, I felt so burnt out. The last few months were pretty nice for the most part, but now I’m constantly dreading the end of this calm period.