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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • It’s easy to see how someone might fall into an anti-immigrant pipeline with news like this.

    • Thousands of immigrants are willing to risk death to reach the UK which they see as a promised land
    • I live in the UK and see nothing of this promised land, on the contrary my life is quite shitty, I’m barely making the ends meet
    • Therefore the good life opportunities are taken by the immigrants

    Of course what’s missing is the first-hand insight in the immigrant life, which is far from comfortable.

    Which makes me think what is driving those people to see specifically the UK as a promised land. Rather than any other country. Mass hysteria/cultural phenomenon? An extreme case of FOMO?








  • Structured way of spending a lot of time in the same environment with other people with similar goals. “Go out on your own and make friends” doesn’t work for many of us, additional free time will not help.
    There’s a good reason most people make long-term friendships in school and university, we need a similar space where we are surrounded by the same people every day (even though we may not like all of them). I have no idea what could it be since our society frowns upon such ideas.

    Before Covid the office kinda took this role, however it was a gamble and not voluntary.