Matisyahu's Blog

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"

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Category: Social Commentary

  • Thank goodness I work from home.

    On Tuesday I went for a 14km power walk, I was sore all over, I could barely move by the time I got home – I rested on the sofa but I was still sore so I decided to go to bed and sleep it off. After having a good night sleep I felt so…

  • Could we get some perspective please?

    Oh the wailing and gnashing of teeth by ‘Tik Tokers’, the crying, the lamentations, the over the top histrionics when users of the Tik Tok app find that US users have been blocked and behaving as if it came out of nowhere (it has since come back online in the US resulting in another round…

  • Arrived back at home.

    The memorial service was a nice experience – catching up with cousins I hadn’t seen in years along with seeing friends of the family I haven’t seen in years (the reason for not having seen them in years is because I live in Wellington and they live at the other end of the country). It…

  • Random thoughts.

    This week has been pretty good with it ending the week where I have found out I’ll end up getting a bonus for the work for the last 6 months of the year which will be nice for when I head overseas – paying for travel insurance along with a bit of spending money. It’ll…

  • Plagiarism on YouTube and my 5 cents worth on the topic.

    Once again Harry has put out a tour de force on an issue of plagiarism along with a second video pointing how a prominent YouTuber (according to the videos author) just made stuff up (or a less polite way he was rectum plucking rumination from their nether regions and presenting them as fact) because the…