Daily Slow Chat

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1. Good morning everyone, guess who just experienced his first earthquake 😃 Good thing it was only a 6.2, because I wasted 20 seconds looking for my shoes and key before heading downstairs and outside. If the building was in any real danger I’d have been done for.

   When I make my sick Instagram post with all my best pictures from this trip, should I set it to “Pachuca Sunrise” or “Absinthe Party in the Fly Honey Warehouse?”
   Absinthe Party is more about going on vacation to Europe, but Pachuca Sunrise’s opening line is “midnight on a beach in the Mediterranean, and I miss you.” Choices, choices.

2. I overslept today because I was having a dream where I was trying to remember the last name of a film music composer with the first name “Patrick” who also composed the soundtrack of “Drowning by Numbers” (which was of course composed by Michael Nyman 🙄). I googled it the minute I opened my eyes, and apparently the dude who composed the Harry Potter movies is called Patrick Doyle. Good thing I didn’t sleep until I finally remembered, I don’t think I have heard that name before.

   The local Rewe is completely conquered by Korean food. Not only is there everything I need to cook whatever Korean dish I want, there’s also all kinds of instant ramen etc that I only found in Asian stores before. There’s even a small dedicated chest freezer for Korean dumplings. Crazy. Japanese ramen is harder to find, though.

3. It’s well known that Monaco continuously builds more into the sea, they fill the ocean and build on top of the reclaimed land. (Btw, why is it called *re*claimed?) I wonder, does this also extend their exclusive economic zone or EEZ further into the Mediterranean? I imagine it would have to. So my suggestion is, we Finns should build an artificial peninsula from southern Finland to the north Atlantic. Make it like 5 meters wide, that’s all we need, and squeeze that shit through the Öresund strait and all those other dumb Danish straits into the Atlantic. 

   [Here is my estimation](https://imgur.com/a/GXNl9om) of what Finland’s new Southern Peninsula would look like on the map. From it we would claim, as international agreements grant us, 200 nautical miles of EEZ to every direction and drill a shitload of oil from the seabed. Those smug Norwegians will finally have to share some of their oil wealth. 

   I know the infamous South China Sea islands that China has built there for this exact purpose exist and are already a thing, but I figured a peninsula that is connected to the mainland is way more sound when it comes to the validity of our claims. 

4. I’m sitting in as an exam monitor today, and I saw some of the exam tasks featuring some AI slop. I am quite disappointed with the ministry….