I’m under the impression that Google deliberately hinders their YouTube platform just because you have ad-blockers. With videos taking time to buffer, seems to signal this, because it almost makes up nearly the amount of time for when ads take if you had to watch them. So since you’re ad-blocking and they don’t like that, they’ll make your experience miserable until you want to pay their service or not use ad-block.
I think we live in a natural Matrix. Formed of biological and social habits of thought and perception. I think that this monstrously warps our perspective and blinds us.
I think that we are surrounded by leprechauns and aliens. We just can’t see them.
John Carpenter’s “They Live” style?
That nobody actually thought kids hiding under the desks would protect them from bombs. It was all a lie to try and reassure people
It depends on how far away you are. Close enough to be instantly vaporized, probably not. Far enough that it just collapses the building, might do some good.
That cats sense something we can’t. Think of it this way, if we didn’t have ears, we wouldn’t know there’s such thing as sound. Maybe there is some sort of thing that exists that humans lack the organs to percieve but cats can
Facebook’s mobile website takes way too long to load to encourage you to download the app. Only ever use it for marketplace and the occasional link my friends/coworkers send. I recieved a link on teams and my phone took over 20 seconds to load while my work computer did it instantly and both were on the same wifi. Sometimes it will just refuse to open posts on marketplace, so I have to use my computer.
Yea that is 100% intentional. It’s commonplace BS to get you to install the app so they can spy on you more easily.
To add to this, commenting on posts and posting photos is a huge pain on the browser version. Not that I use Facebook pretty much at all anymore.
The US/Israel, China, and Russia are trying to divide the entire world between them
This. I don’t have proof, of course, but every action you see them take points to this.
Youtube definitely hinders the experience if you have adblockers. I’ve had a page load instantly and the video start to buffer immediately, only to refresh on its own a fraction of a second later, load the page slowly, and then wait about 10 seconds before any buffering would happen. If adblockers are disabled, the page loads instantly and the video buffers immediately.
I also regularly get the little popup in the corner saying “Experiencing interruptions?” but shockingly only if the adblocker is enabled. Weird.
I suspect that OpenAI is on a path to spend as much money on data centers and hardware as possible so they can go bankrupt and sell those assets to Microsoft for pennies on the dollar.
It’s a scheme to filter billions and billions of dollars around the “AI everything” hype train directly into Microsoft’s coffers.
Embrace, extend and extinguish.
Oh shit, yeah I also was thinking about how the people paying for these huge investments might not be the ones to profit from the venture finally, if it ever pays for itself.
The other factor to consider is the US government is going to bail them out, that is just absolutely going to happen, but I think you are on to something, idk whom is going to be the beneficiary exactly though.
Google has announced publicly that they do this, several times.
But it doesn’t work with Revanced, which is why they want to ban it.
I have a two second buffer on my older pixel book that has an add blocker, but my new Linux laptop, with 10 different Firefox extensions is instant.
Pretty sure the same soda from cans vs bottles rarely has the same formula. Specifically Coca-Cola, it tastes way different !
I unfortunately don’t have the source but I did read that soda from glass bottles taste slightly different because the caps aren’t 100% airtight, so a little bit of carbonation escapes and a little bit of air gets in.
Regardless of their nationality, billionaires largely pursue the same interests in order to strengthen their position of power in the political system in which they are most involved.
This is, of course, a conspiracy theory, but the Epstein files, for example, certainly suggest this - as does the fact that billionaires’ companies are all multinational and that it is almost impossible to trace where the incredible amounts of capital in the international economic system actually come from (such as the massive concentrations of capital managed by asset managers like Black Rock).
In short: I suspect that the biggest problem facing people worldwide lies in the power of the respective so-called elites, and I think that they coordinate among themselves in order to remain in power or to expand it further.
This is how I explain the resurgence of Nazi ideology, which is actively promoted by billionaires in very different countries.
The question comes to mind - why work so hard to consolidate their power so thoroughly? They already have basically everything anyone could want. Why not kick back and relax?
One plausible answer supported by some of the data: They love raping children, and need their power network to continue to feel safe while continuing to kidnap and rape children.
I suspect that child abuse in these circles is something like murder or other serious crimes for less influential forms of organized crime like the classical mob (Cosa Nostra and so on): these heinous crimes serve as proof of loyalty and at the same time as a bargaining chip that the mob boss can use against his “soldiers.” That would explain why there are disproportionately more pedophiles in the GOP, for example. That may not be the only reason, but pedophilia is clearly the common denominator among those who support the authoritarian-fascist regime in the US.
In any case, Epstein was also obviously used by Mossad to collect blackmail material against influential people.
It seems to me, especially given the proximity of the US regime to the equally fascist Israel, that this is a fundamental strategy to prevent co-conspirators from going public with their knowledge.
I’m not so sure it’s actually pedophilia, as in I don’t think they’re sexually attracted to children.
I think what actually turns them on is having the power to destroy a vulnerable person with impunity, and pretty much no one is as vulnerable as a child.
Which makes sense because you have to be a psychopath to become a billionaire.
Yes, that is certainly a motive for many of these monsters. However, the effect on the “lower ranks” or even pf all those caught in the act remains the same: because they commit a crime, and a most repulsive one at that, they are vulnerable to blackmail and manipulation if there is proof (pictures, videos,witness statements).
So the motive hardly plays a role as long as it is treated as a “proof of trust” that every co-conspirator must provide as a “ticket to join the club” of these degenerate criminals.
As I said, this is a classic strategy of organized crime. And since the current US system is essentially organized crime, just on a unprecedented level, I don’t see why the same methods shouldn’t be used here.
For the US, the fact that the president’s father had proven ties to the mob and that the president’s mentor, Roy Cohn, was the go-to lawyer for various underworld figures in the 1970s and 1980s only makes this more likely.
Sometimes I get the thought that I died years ago and this is really just Hell.
It would explain a lot tbh.
The Mayans were right about 2012
Reincarnate repeatedly into the underworld with amnesia as a form of torture is on the bingo card.
Ever see The Good Place?
The reason Jeffery Epstein eventually hated Trump was because Trump started to invade on his business as well in addition to being a cheap crook in expensive looking clothes.
Reddit’s epidemic of lifetime bans is based on politics. They’re unofficially moving to the right.
That’s been obvious for some time. The thing is, since well before this administration into his first term and before, the democrats are hostile to the actual left, only tolerating any left issues election time to vote for the lesser evil. But they want you banned off social media more than the Republicans in truth. Their fear is losing control of the party.
Then the right always wants to ban criticism. So there is no force looking our for “the left,” as it were, what we use to describe the common good, or non selfish piece of shitism.
I call it “trickle down rhetoric.”
Essentially, people with more wealth are looked up to by people with less wealth. When a wealthy person says something, their slightly-less-wealthy peers are more likely to agree with them. When the slightly-less-wealthy peers say something, their slightly-less-wealthy peers are more likely to agree as well.
This trend keeps happening until you reach the bottom of the barrel, where just about everyone who can’t think for themselves (most people) are just parroting ideas that have been put there by those with more power and influence.
It’s how we can convince the working class to vote for Hillary, Trump, and Biden over Bernie.
I thought this was commonly known to be how human society works. Sometimes with just power and not literal wealth, but the same concept.
Well, it’s not common enough!
I don’t think most people realize how most people are being herded like farm animals. They certainly don’t show it in their actions.
you’re literally parroting the “wake up sheeple” trope
Yeah, we’ve been conditioned to scoff at it so we don’t recognize it when we see it.
It’s how people trust the suits on tv that have been wrong about everything, but sure, let’s let the establishment run the opposition to the president, see, it wasn’t their fault! It’s not like the voters made it clear they wouldn’t vote for their sell out. But since the suits said it was bigotry it’s ok to let the same people continue to run the opposition.
That most people are much dumber than they initially appear to be. “Average intelligence” isn’t enough to form a basic understanding of the world.
But you aren’t one of the dumb people right?
Not OP but I can fully accept I’m a roving idiot ¯\(ツ)/¯
One time I tried pump my fuel and it kept stopping right away. I moved pumps and the same thing. I was looking down the hole to see if anything was blocking it, I went inside to inform the attendant their pumps might be malfunctioning. Then I realized, the night prior I had already filled up. I’m a dumbass.
To my credit, however; it is my routine to fill up every morning (I drive courier) A night fill up was off routine. Still a dumbass.
You may be overestimating how literate the average person is.
Everyone its ignorant in own right and there is not a person alive you can’t learn something from.
That doesn’t mean there are no differences in people’s intelligence.
Then please don’t let me interrupt the dick measuring.
Yep, dicks are very diverse too.
Except for babies.
Yeah, babies are fucking stupid… absolutely the dumbest. Constantly trying to kill themselves. No self preservation whatsoever.
Are you a new dad that was recently on “keeping it alive” duty? :D
Honestly I was just thinking about that and I think you could learn a thing or two from a baby. They’re very in touch with their emotions.
I’m the smortest! I know how to do things
