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I think I saw something about DIA no longer allowing it for passport renewal. But when I google all I get is articles saying it is being expanded.

Been ages since I had to renew so I'm probably forgetting the poor customer experience part and am about to find out.

😄Hmm does that say something about the books I wonder or is it more a reflection of how many people only read the first part of trilogies?

True, and nothing about them prepares you for it.

Ah, that makes sense and it tracks. If you ever want to work somewhere with little accountability, that would probably be a good place!

Speaking of govt systems do you know anything about RealMe? It sort of looks like they are phasing it out?

Hopefully some of them survive. They sound so amazing.

Thanks for the book rec - good timing! I only just read Children of Time a few weeks ago - didn't realise the sequel was going to be about octopuses, thought it was just going to be spiders in space! @[email protected] has Children of Time on reading list too.

I think Pete is Sindhu's piano teacher and Bas was maybe behind Basil Juice? Not sure how music producers (Handsome Dexter etc) fit in.

Norman Pain's (from Northern Boys) solo stuff is really good too. Sonnet especially.

Thank you so much; I hadn't heard about that (out of the octopus loop). I can't find it now but I wonder if the instances I mentioned of wild octopuses learning were somehow related to those - if memory serves it was somewhere off the coast of California so some habitat overlap.

Wow, the LPSO have a lot of evolutionary potential. If their environmental conditions are right who knows what will happen. I don't mean to sound disloyal to my species but if humans do succeed in dragging themselves back into the stone age it might be time for the octopusses to shine. An Octipodean Era!

There's still time!

Interesting because they have a terrible privacy culture and leak like crazy - I say this not just because of their known incidents but also from personal experience.

I wonder if it's because their systems are so strict they tend to just work outside them? (a bit like the paradox where if a penalty for a crime is too draconian you end up with more of the crime due to reluctance to report).

Hopefully if they get a new system it will be one all their staff can use properly.

The Northern Boys record label is Singhusworld which is actually a dairy/cornershop that got into music to make money to save the dairy from being shut down after it sold this home made drink (nonalcoholic). Their whole online footprint is priceless.

If you like Northern Boys you might like these gangster guys

Well unfortunately no, this is the tragedy of the octopuses - they don't know their parents and grandparents. Their mothers die when they are born and their fathers are absent, and they are solitary.

Their only chance at learning is social or observational learning from peers but because of the territory arrangements even that doesn't happen a lot as far as we know, though scientists have observed some younger octopuses learning from watching older ones from a distance.

Octopuses are incredibly smart. They can infer from context, make generalizations, spatially imagine objects, and even show altruism. If only they could do what you said and pass on knowledge the world would be their oyster!

That thing about macaques is interesting.