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How to flush doom monster out of volcano it's hiding in: Nuke it. Literally drop a man-portable nuclear bomb into the volcano and detonate it. Can't hide in a volcano if there's no volcano left!

... might actually be the first part of this monster paradise thing that's a legit gift to read, ha.

Ahhh, Outdoors: the grand strategy MMO

Maybe I should try learning an instrument again...   

Mindfulness is a most important skill to have, particularly when it comes to being aware of your own thoughts, motivations, and changing them.

A lot of my countrymen didn't knew the meaning of xenophobia a few years ago. A lot of them know it now. It's sad, this country used to receive virtually anyone with open arms and the saving grace of this place was despite the violence and corruption we never EVER had a sliver of racism or xenophobia. Welp, cet's la vide mon ami.

Well, don't press E~

Youtube is recommending me anti-feminist and pro-trump stuff that it basically shouldn't be. I'm a little disturbed, due to the context of how I use the site.

Spoiler: speculation on why it might be (click to show/hide)

I never look at anything more political than minute-long news clips on youtube, and those barely ever. I like my news in text form, when possible. I generally remove any political content from my recommendations regardless of direction, I think internet videos may be the worst platform for debate ever made. So it shouldn't be that youtube is trying to show me the side of a debate I don't always see.

Perhaps I appear to be politically callow, and in need of my horizons widened in general. But this can't be political education. It's an attack on an unheard-of website's investigation of a rather small social media trend. Far too specific. You don't talk to someone about attacks on Brechtian theories of theatre before they know what realism is. It'd contort their understanding of the debate, or just be lost on them.

This isn't entertainment. I know for an unrecognized viewer that the odd "Judge Judy destroys feminist" sort of thing is recommended, the strident woman/ aggressive feminist is an image that people enjoying seeing attacked. This isn't ostensible feminists being humiliated on daytime talk shows for bilge-level mass entertainment. It's some faceless bloke droning on for twenty minutes about some obscure project poorly-presented anti-partiarchy site treating the traditional idea of the stay-at-home wife as an unhealthy deviation from the norm. This is an attack on something I have never actually seen or had recommended. And there's no relation to the other categories I use youtube for, such as the video being from a channel I watch or something.

I understand that youtube is owned by google. Recent political searches I have done are "eurotracker poll", "brexit poll 44%", "proportion child food insecurity UK", "uk election polling", that sort of thing. Nothing to suggest I either want to or ought to get some MAGA-chanting conspiracist's twenty minute video on the Clintons.

Perhaps I'm being the typical reactionary liberal, recoiling in shock whenever I see something that doesn't conform to my views. But I don't remember ever seeing something with a pro-feminist or pro-left line in my youtube recommendations. Maybe that's just me. But if I had children, I would be thinking hard about whether I'd like them to be online at all.

Edit: apparently I'm getting pro-trump mouthbreather-level stuff because I watched a few clips from the show Father Ted, a sitcom about Irish priests. So blow me if I know how Youtube's algorithms work.