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Following on from yesterday's rant
There was no mention in the media of bringing back the STOP YT PORN button. To stop iOgres Google/YouTube video auto suggestion when a user's video ends. YouTube prefers to use algorithms to detect unwanted behaviour in its abusers. But has failed miserably to either notice or react to life changing behaviour against countless, innocent children in exchange for its own, increased, tax-free profits. The news of advertisers withdrawl is rolling. With more and more companies joining the ranks.
The trillions in value that the iOgres enjoy is largely based on advertising. It's just a shame that advertising is not seen for the outright evil it is in its own right. There is no basic human right to be free of advertising. We are bombared by their lies and crap from morning to night and from cradle to grave. It fills our lives and denies our attention on far more important matters. Even when driving we are confronted by posters stealing our attention. Imagine how cheap their products would be without the billions spent on advertising?
Every bus shelter in Odense was covered in huge images of scantily clad women when I was there once. Buses have advertising plastered all over them. SMIDSY? 18 dead? The [innocent?] driver was staring at an advertising poster of a half naked woman. Nobody had any idea what they were advertising and cared much less.
Who else do we know with very similar behaviour going back for countless hundreds of years? Presently exchanging favourite, children's, fairy tales in just one of countless, tax-free, gilded palaces in an impoverished, mafia-ridden backwater, somewhere down in southern Europe.
Despite two optimistic forecasts it remained resolutely grey for my walk. With a cold, easterly wind on the way back from the village. A Great tit was singing opposite the church but moved away as I trundled past. It eventually brightened to cloudy with only very brief flashes of sunshine. Too busy for a ride.
Saturday 23rd, 32-48F, overnight frost, calm and threatening to be bright. The Danish news is that a "nice" member of parliament was too soft for the party leader. So she has been sacked after only two days. It seems that she couldn't lie through her teeth to the media without blinking.
The Australian politicooze [aka: The Black Hand Gang] plan to use the Great Barrier Reef as a "landfill" site for a million tons of coal waste sludge, dredged from a major, coal export harbour. Coming on top of the run-off from recent and unprecedented flooding the GBR need not worry about coral bleaching in future. The sunlight will never reach the remaining coral!
Walked up to to the woods and back in a large loop. Frost in the shadows and a cool wind but I still needed to remove my hat and gloves for the second half. Saw the same three deer grazing on the farmer's crop as last time I was up there. Shameless, they are!
I was allowed out for a foraging run on the trike. Returning quite well laden under continuing grey skies. Though I drew the line at bringing a large bag of compost home on the back. [I was carrying eggs and tomatoes!] Only 7 miles.
Sunday 24th 31-50F, calm and clear with sunshine promised. Cloudier later. Went for a mid-afternoon walk.
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