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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • This is why you don’t take on odd jobs from people contacting you remotely.

    If your only job is to forward packages/letters/money sent to your home address (or to pick up packages from nearby addresses) and you get a cut of the money, you’re probably a mule for money laundering.

    If your only job is helping others from another country (they will like about where they’re actually from) get through interview/hiring processes, you’re probably working with countries like this.

    If they want to use your name for a job application, you don’t have to do any work, and they will send you most of the paycheck, you’re probably working with countries like this.




  • Most of those videos are also found on YouTube. I would expect that you don’t see those videos suggested to you because the algorithm has learned what you like to watch.

    If you open up YouTube with a VPN and in a private tab you’ll likely get search results that include a mix from both the right and the left.

    I’d rather not link to them, but from the ones you circled, these are the videos that I found on YouTube while doing a quick search:

    • The Babylon Bee video
    • The Paris Olympics opening ceremony video
    • The Assassins Creed video

    Now please excuse me as I purge my history…






  • No one mentioned an alternative to capitalism and communism is the first that comes to mind.

    Realistically what we have throughout the world (economically) is a mixture between capitalism and socialism. Some countries place more restrictions on corporations than other do. We already get that capitalism isn’t perfect, and I don’t think any realistically “perfect” systems exist.

    So, if you’re going to make “capitalism is bad” comments, what are you proposing that is better than what most other countries are already using?

    I’d be on board with it if we can show that it’s better.




  • This is why, in a lot of universities, they’re trying to teach you how to learn, not necessarily how you should think.

    We need to be able to examine the claims for ourselves and learn what red flags look like.

    And a lot of the time we mix up “facts” with “opinions”. Even when we are looking at facts, most of the time there are lies mixed with truth or conveniently forgotten truths. If we only get our information from a single source, or from biased sources, then we’re going to miss some key information.

    That’s why it’s good to make sure that you look at any story (especially politicized ones) from different angles and sources even if you don’t agree with them.

    Not only that but it can be enlightening to hear about a story from someone who’s much more intimately familiar with the subject themselves.

    For example, whenever it comes to news stories about the Supreme Court, I like to look for commentary from lawyers such as Steve Lehto or Legal Eagle. You’ll find that they typically provide some very important context into why a particular decision was made that cuts through a lot of the outrage material that reporters push for clicks.