@chipswoon The closest thing I can think of is an essay on undersea cables generally by Neal Stephenson which is not this by any means but might be a good angle of approach for thinking about this?
@attentive the portal network makes it possible for me to get from any resource extraction point in the state to Perth near instantly but i'd have to personally charter a Guild Heighliner to get directly to Darwin rather than take a 2,400km detour via Perth
@attentive a common misconception; in fact they are single City; connected together by qantam virgmholes, reaching out geographically in fractal highways across the landscape. The only distance that matters is drive time to the closest nexus
@teatodifor fortunately as long as you pick up a thick book by a white guy to read aloud there's a good 80% it's either strongly inspired by or literally odyssey fanfic so arguably this journey never has to end; just like Poseidon woulda wanted
@BeanLate uh art is for laundering money, PR stunts and tax minimization , please keep your comments out of my freeports??? its hard enough already and i don't want to have to use apecoins
@teatodifor in anno dominae '22 "untreated sleep apnoae" is something people really should get sorted before adjacent sleeping #sorrynotsorry πββοΈ - but it begs the question, what are the green flags?