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Cake day: January 22nd, 2024

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  • I knew a couple of people who studied in continental Europe under the Erasmus scheme before Brexit, and the far right were always claiming during the referendum campaign that the EU would never chuck the UK out of anything because we’re so awesome and they need us and our money so much. Turns out there’s a limit to how much a club misses its most loudly critical influential member.

    So amongst Europhile Brits, Erasmus means young people’s opportunities to study abroad first, and name from history that it honours second. I might not have heard of Erasmus if it weren’t for the Erasmus scheme, and I had to check just now whether he was a historical figure or someone from Greek mythology. Awesome surname for a person in real life to have, though.






  • Sorry, I see that as a cookie wall, not a pay wall.

    So yes, you have to accept cookies to read the article, but you don’t have to give them your credit card info, and American sites just set cookies anyway.

    You should use a browser that lets you burn tabs’ cookies if you’re worried about it. (That’s what I do.) Alternatively get an ad blocker. My browser does its own ad blocking. It lets “sponsored” articles through, and similarly spoken ads included by the author in podcasts and videos but I don’t see Google’s ads on YouTube with it.

    Browser fingerprinting is real and google and other advertisers track you whether you allow cookies or not.