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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • The manager of my bakery who earns 17€/hour and gets up at 2am six days a week to open the bakery so no one else has to is not a cop. She greeted me with a double espresso with hot oat milk and having already clocked me in. I normally drink a double espresso with room temperature oat milk. But go off, I guess.



  • However, the fact-checking website Snopes said the image showed protests in Los Angeles following the death of George Floyd in May 2020.

    The governor’s office wrote on X on Friday: “HUGE DEVELOPMENT: An official Department of Defense account is spreading fake images—from old protests—to justify Trump’s illegal militarization of Los Angeles. This isn’t just disinformation. It’s a propaganda campaign from the Pentagon.”

    This is the next paragraph, I think the “however” refers to the posting, not newsoms reaction to it. Ultimately, old pictures are real and their use is deceitful. Calling them fake is adequate in my book, but not entirely accurate.







  • I also don’t use TikTok and I’m exactly the wrong age to know anything about teenagers/young adults, but it’s my understanding that its base outside of the US means that it isn’t (as) subject to American social-political pressure. Therefore people were exposed to more pro-Palestinian content through TikTok than instagram/facebook, youtube, or reddit, and TikTok’s relative popularity with gen z contributed to the popularity of BDS across college campuses in the US.

    I don’t know if that’s been substantiated by much actual research though.









  • In that vein, any dietary restrictions that those around you don’t have, have a logical basis of furthering your in group cohesion and distancing yourself from your neighbors, just because sharing meals with people generally deepens relationships (or honestly, any restrictions of any type that differ from those around you serve to other you from them, thereby driving you together as a group). That is a scientifically substantiated benefit, but it’s not quite what I was getting at, because it’s not inherent to the rule itself, but rather how it applied in that specific context.

    That said, I didn’t realize that about the textiles and it’s super interesting!