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.

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    youtube kinda made it known, but not officially. GOOGLES involvement with REDDIT is deeper than just search results. they are using thier AI for moderation and other services. hence thier sudden jump in the ability to massive amount of users at once. before people go shake off the bans by using accounts that they aged and not interact with subreddits they were banned in.

    DNC/GOP complicit in epstein coverup, either through doing nothing or trying to hide it. DNc had access to files for a while, but they are extremely quiet on it because they some of thier members in the files, plus likely some israeli leaders that have been to islands too. outside of maybe 5ish congressmembers, the rest want the news to stop talking about it. they throw a bone here and there once in a while to prevent any inparty fighting.

    also with the election in 2024, of dnc dont want to be accused of"rigging it, but they also dont want to do anything about it too.

  • I’m gonna sound so schizo, so bear with me:

    My most paranoid suspision: History is false, this is a simulation. Humanity is long extinct and aliens have recreated a few humans in a test lab for shits and giggles.

    Some lower-stakes suspicion: Okay maybe history isn’t fake but someone tampered with my brain and deleted some memories, perhaps negative opinions I have about certain family members were altered to make me less hostile against them. Idk I just read about ECT and I got paranoia.

    Or: Maybe my parents aren’t my real parents… 👀

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      someone tampered with my brain and deleted some memories, perhaps negative opinions I have about certain family members were altered to make me less hostile against them.

      To what end?

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      Finally, some real schizoposting here. Everybody else is just putting out hypotheses based on real life evidence while you’ve given me exactly what I wanted:

      • Lol those are two separate thoughts, its one or the other, not both. Also I’m not that serious about it… its more like intrusive thoughts lurking in the back of my mind.

        School teaches government propaganda

        Likewise, your parents also push propaganda, but more of “how much we sacraficed for you, you are required to love us”

        Everyone has their own agenda to push

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    That nobody actually thought kids hiding under the desks would protect them from bombs. It was all a lie to try and reassure people

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      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.

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        Also in places with false ceilings and hanging fixtures even light shockwaves can cause stuff to fall. Falling stuff, small fragile heads - just better to take cover than not.

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    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

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      They kind of do. Not through some extra sense, but because they have insanely good hearing, and very low visual acuity combined with really good motion detection.

      They have a completely different perception of the world, basically everything is a blur, but moving objects stand out. That’s why cats can stare at an unmoving laser dot: they’re not unmoving if you’re a cat.

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    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.

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      Yea that is 100% intentional. It’s commonplace BS to get you to install the app so they can spy on you more easily.

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      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.

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    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.

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      Oh no, it’s actually much worse.

      These LLM datacenters are basically useless for anything but running LLMs. You can’t use them for any other cloud software, because all the electronics were specifically made for running LLMs. Really, the only thing that will still be useful is the concrete building and the power and data lines coming in.

      No, the actual reason why hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent is because of three things.

      • AI boosters (Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, etc) are excellent liars and great storytellers, and rich people eat that shit up.

      • rich people invest money by the bucket load, and everyone else notices. Stocks go up and everyone notices that LLM stocks go up, making people buy them making stocks go up because surely, something popular must also be good and useful.

      • The people investing money into these lies want to see it happen, so they tell their pet CEOs to implement LLMs and reward them for implementing LLMs. Not for getting a use out of it, but for applying it.

      So we get a bunch of people benefitting in the form of massive bonusses for implementing LLMs and pushing the use of LLMs, despite it actually not doing anything useful and being actively detrimental in most cases. All to make the stock line go up, unlocking more bonusses for the ultra rich.

      But the LLM itself is pointless. It doesn’t even matter if it does anything. It’s just a vehicle to inflate fake numbers.

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      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.

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    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.

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      This is just the result of a power vacuum/imbalance left by the declining American empire. And there are many more players (the rich af Gulf countries, mainly SA and the UAE, India, Turkey) and some of them are not even nations like banking institutions, technocrats and capitalist oligarchs, and asset management firms, for example.

      If I may, I think the reality of things is more like this: the world has realized that the American empire and its vassals can no longer unilaterally make the rules and force every other nation to do their bidding or face the consequences, things have changed both in the US (it’s no longer the MIC and banks deciding the direction of the country but now there are multiple conflicting groups of interest; corruption has done its thing and every part of the American empire suffers from theft at every level, the military included) and in the world as a whole and the balance of power has shifted. So, since we’re firmly in a post-American hegemony era, all that has to be decided is how this transition will be managed and what America’s new role will be in this new world. Before, the whole world belonged de facto to the West, which means ultimately America, now different nodes of power have arisen and power will be distributed between them.

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        This is also all happening while China is pushing BRICS. Then you have moron American leadership that thinks USAID was the US being nice and costing us money when it was entirely a US soft-power projection strategy that is now a vacuum for China to fill. When idiots that don’t understand things vote in idiots that know nothing, the USA loses hegemony and that never comes back. Also, side note, while abysmal for the future of the US, freaking amazing for the world in the long run!

        I remember an old interview with a defector Soviet spy. He said infiltrating governments is hard and risky…infiltrate mayor’s offices and school boards and push adgeclndas that create useless citizens. Play the generationally long game and the unstoppable US empire will kill itself. Well played sir. You won.

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      This. I don’t have proof, of course, but every action you see them take points to this.

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      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.

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    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.

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      I read somewhere that this is because adblockers sometimes can’t block the ad so they just block audio and video from it and wait it out.

      I’ve no idea if it’s true.

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        Hulu used to do something like this if they detected an ad blocker, IIRC … Except they would also display a blurb about what they were doing to encourage you to stop trying.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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    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.

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      I distinctly remember the day I lost faith in educated people.

      I do Workplace Safety and (waste) compliance. That day, I was at a rent-a-lab, telling people about how stuff works regarding their chemicals. Now, I have a doctorate in chemistry, but that room had more degrees than people by a pretty good margin.

      I had to go over basic concepts like “the hand washing sink is not for rinsing chemicals. No, not even if you run the tap a lot” and “yes, you can run a waterhose down the special disposal sink, but it costs your company thousands of euros” several times.

      Or “yes, if you scoop a little bit of [hazardous waste] into each bag of used napkins, you are technically below the level of it being a bag full of hazardous waste, but you’re also willingly and intentionally commiting ecological crimes and slowly murdering garbage workers. Yes, if I signed off on it, nobody would know, and that would make me an accomplice AND make this a conspiracy, so I suggest we don’t do things that will get me fined roughly all worldly possessions”.

      Most damning was “no, these barrels aren’t magic. Anything you put in a barrel will stay in the barrel. Yes it says “disposal”, but they’re loose barrels. They don’t empty till someone empties them. Like a bucket”.

      Actually, MOST damning was “no you can’t keep food in the lab. Not even in the special food-only fume hood”. But that was at a different place.

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      I think a lot of that stems from most peoples’ lack of innate curiosity about the world. I used to think most people wanted to know how things work so they have a stronger understanding of the world. Now? No so much.

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        me to until, i found out online spaces created safe space for pseudoscience, pseudointellectualism too. even people in stems fall into pseudoscience quite often.

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        I’m a fucking ignorant moron on the vast majority of topics.

        A dumb person will happily talk about everything as if they understand it. A smart person will shut about the things they don’t understand and be open to being educated.

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          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.