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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • Why is it when I miss a day of Daily Show it’s eviscerated from my feed entirely, but no matter how many Jordan Peterson thumbnails I hastily pass over, they still appear week in week out?

    To date I’ve watched one JP video: Matt Dillahunty verbally tearing him a new asshole.

    The right wing rabbit hole is real and, even if you’re explicitly against it, YouTube is like “if I can get him to watch just one …”, because they know they’ll have you watching videos like the guy from Clockwork Orange in no time. It’s disgusting.

    Pro tip: never press “do not show me this” on right wing videos, just skip over them. That engagement causes the algorithm to mark you as emotionally triggered by politics and they’ll just shovel more of the same in your face. For them it’s just a roll of the dice, and the value of them flipping you is too high to avoid.











  • So a “parliamentarian delegation” isn’t official government business?

    The UK Foreign Office said the group was part of a parliamentary delegation - however Israel’s immigration authority contested this claim, saying the delegation had not been acknowledged by any Israeli official.

    The MPs said the trip had been organised with UK charities that had “over a decade of experience in taking parliamentary delegations”.

    We don’t need Israel’s acknowledgement or approval to label the WGs of the UK government. If there should have been coordination with their government on the constraints of their visit, that’s another matter. It doesn’t make the delegation any less a part of government business by their own definition.