do good by you, friend

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

Adult literacy is low.

Child literacy is low.

Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.

We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.

It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.

So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.

You're correct:

the competition is open to wildlife photography novices, amateurs, and professionals, celebrating the hilarity of our natural world and highlighting what we need to do to protect it

Also a reminder that they were better at tumblr than most of us, comrade interloper was great at memeing. Like, the talent!

The Nazis, in 1933, only needed less than 44% of the vote to end democracy in Germany and start working towards a war that led to the most horrific genocide in memory.

It is normal, then, for young people everywhere, to look for a morally pure option. It's not new, it's simply the unwillingness to contribute towards evil and that is good and noble and beautiful.

But it can be weaponised.

If you do not vote for the greatest possible good...

That can be taken advantage of by the greatest possible evil. Because it gives them space.

Because those 44% was not, and I'm certain, 44% of the entire population elligible for voting.

It was 44% of the people willing to vote at all.

Some, I'm certain, didn't vote for moral reasons. Would that they had.

Hitler might have never become head of the German government.

The morally pure option is to do whatever you can to prevent the morally abominable from achieving power.

If you prevent the raging bigot from being elected by voting instead for the candidate who's policies aren't perfect, but who is not actively trying to destroy entire sections of society, well, that's the morally pure option.

Joey, the rescued baby otter loves crunching ice.

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