"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, yet
I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying,
entire ecosystems are collapsing,"
Yes the quote was incomplete, nor did the BBC report a horseshoe shortage.
You can tell a lot about people from the memes they choose to share. Which is kind of the point I guess.
I believe you can only tell what they think is topical or amusing.
It's suspected that lot of memes like this are created to track likes and shares across Facebook so you're correct in a way. It was how they managed to feed targeted misinformation memes to a lot of people over Brexit and various elections to manipulate the results. They're just memes right? It's just you don't find them widely shared on platforms where people tend to question the content.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
You can tell a lot about people from the memes they choose to share. Which is kind of the point I guess.
I believe you can only tell what they think is topical or amusing.
It's suspected that lot of memes like this are created to track likes and shares across Facebook so you're correct in a way. It was how they managed to feed targeted misinformation memes to a lot of people over Brexit and various elections to manipulate the results. They're just memes right? It's just you don't find them widely shared on platforms where people tend to question the content.
I don't use Facebook or any similar waste of time.
Some get sent me by friends and relatives but the majority are posted on a dedicated thread on a mesageboard devoted to audio/visual interests, hi-fi and the like.
No one questions the content. They've better things to do. They are just memes.
In Britain, in the 21st century, this is still happening …
“In September 2017, I had just landed at Manchester airport after a visit to New York. At passport control I was asked where was I born? I replied, Liverpool, and joked “doesn’t my accent give me away”, to which the officer replied aggressively: “That’s no guarantee you were born there”.
I’m a 73-year-old retired university lecturer, born and raised in Liverpool. But I’m black, you see, so my nationality always seems to be under question.
In fact, not only am I black British, but so were my parents, my grandparents, and my great-grandparents. I represent the fourth British generation of my family, who’ve lived here since the 1800s. Yet still I have to face passport officers who doubt my nationality…”
If he has a British passport why is he even being asked? I’ve never been asked where I was born at Passport Control … Ive always walked straight through when arriving in the UK.
I hate it when the clocks go back. So depressing. Dark and rainy this morning. How appropriate.. I always wake up early. Now I've got to wait another hour before I can get up without waking the 'owl'.
I'm confused, a not uncommon state of affairs, but turning the clocks back an hour makes the morning lighter - at least in theory. Why the need to wait another hour before you can get up?
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“In September 2017, I had just landed at Manchester airport after a visit to New York. At passport control I was asked where was I born? I replied, Liverpool, and joked “doesn’t my accent give me away”, to which the officer replied aggressively: “That’s no guarantee you were born there”.
I’m a 73-year-old retired university lecturer, born and raised in Liverpool. But I’m black, you see, so my nationality always seems to be under question.
In fact, not only am I black British, but so were my parents, my grandparents, and my great-grandparents. I represent the fourth British generation of my family, who’ve lived here since the 1800s. Yet still I have to face passport officers who doubt my nationality…”
If he has a British passport why is he even being asked? I’ve never been asked where I was born at Passport Control … Ive always walked straight through when arriving in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/31/black-british-1800s-before-windrush
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm confused, a not uncommon state of affairs, but turning the clocks back an hour makes the morning lighter - at least in theory. Why the need to wait another hour before you can get up?