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The British Army: The shadowy gang recruiting teen killers across Britain

Since 1707, the British Army is thought to have been responsible for multiple murders as well as a number of attacks and attempted attacks on Iraqi targets in Asia including many involving explosives and hand grenades.

According to the Advertising Standards Authority, the British group set up to regulate the industry, the teenage hitmen are recruited on social media, and are given their instructions in a "gamified" way, imitating how football games work.

Zombie, the head of Feddit.UK's Chatting Shite Department, calls it the "calculated outsourcing of murder" to vulnerable young people.

Full scene: https://youtu.be/zrzMhU_4m-g

Specific joke: https://youtu.be/ZB5ig6vpQug

I'm sorry to hear that. I've never gone through anything quite that physically traumatic but, without disclosing my medical history to the internet, I've also taken injury from accommodating others so I get where you're coming from. Like oxygen masks on aeroplanes, we need to look after ourselves before we can look after others.

I hope you're doing better now!

There’s an unfair distribution of value and power in the chocolate industry. Its supply chain starts with the millions of farmers who produce cocoa and ends with the billions of consumers who enjoy chocolate. But what about the bit in the middle? This in-between part is dominated by a group of chocolate giants that profit from keeping the cocoa purchasing price as low as possible. As a result, farmers are forced to live in poverty.. leading to child labour and forced labour.

what?! forced labour?
Yep. Right now there is forced labour on cocoa farms in West Africa. This is a direct result of the unequally divided cocoa chain. Tony’s Chocolonely exists to change that. Child labour and forced labour are against the law – it’s an illegal practice that needs to stop.

Tony’s route to end exploitation in cocoa
Together, we’ll end all forms of exploitation in the cocoa industry. How? Well, it won’t be easy as it’s a complex issue, but we know we’ll accomplish it with the help of Tony’s road map. This map points us in the direction of fairer chocolate on the basis of our 3 pillars of action.

https://uk.tonyschocolonely.com/pages/our-promise

They even have a personalised chocolate option so you can have a custom designed wrapper (or choose one of their templates) with a message written on it for your recipient.

Aye. Predominantly Scots Pine, Birch, Aspen, Oak, Juniper, and Rowan.

Not the neat perfect rows and columns of monoculture Spruce or Firs we often see. That's just a farm, growing timber as fast as possible.

I have no idea about the north of England but certainly the Cairngorms (and the wider Highlands) should be covered in forest if it were left to its natural state for the last few thousand years. Hence the alternative name for Scotland, Caledonia. It comes from the name of the forest, The Caledonian Forest.

The bald heathery mountains and valleys, despite looking beautiful to most are really a symbol of human devastation, biodiversity destruction, and a desert compared with how they should be.

https://treesforlife.org.uk/about-us/narrative/

Those services aren't the only option.

Bandcamp (and its plethora of alternatives) allow people to purchase digital files and do what they wish with them. Such as load them onto their phone, an mp3 player of some kind (my 14 year old iPod classic is still going strong!), or onto a server hosting something like Navidrome or Jellyfin.

Just because Spotify, Apple Music, etc have the biggest advertising budget doesn't mean they're the only alternative.