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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    Elon musk is only known as the richest person. He chooses to pay taxes and not hide his wealth simply because he wants to be seen as the richest person. There are far richer people in the world that we simply don’t know about because they hide their wealth and don’t brag online.

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      Putin being one, he can effectively use the whole Russian budget as his own piggy bank

      Dude has a billion dollar Dacha protected by the best of the best of Russian military air defence and nobody bats an eye

      The probability of him not doing some heinous shit behind closed doors is zero

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        I read about one of his billion dollar yachts when it was seized. Apparently it costs over one million dollars to fill the fuel tank. Think about that next time you’re at the pump!

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        and no other country wants to put harsher sanctions on russia, because he likely has krompromat on most leaders(besides his frenemies, like china and iran thats probably the one country he doesnt want to cross), plus paying for most if not all conservative government parties in many countries.

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      If you want to take it further, he’s the richest man in terms of numbers.

      At the end of the day, money only matters as far as HOW you can spend it.

      The Zucc poured $77,000,000,000 into a fucking vr sim. WHY?!?!

      If you’re bothered spending time tricking people into thinking you’re the #1 Path of Exile player in the world, you probably aren’t considered highly on the world stage.

      Think of how Putin may utilise that much wealth.

      Don’t get me wrong, spaceships are cool, but… Let’s be real… Nobody is going to live on Mars in Elon Musks lifetime…

      Trump is a dickhead, but at least taking Venezuela and Greenland are realistic goals lol

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    Gamergate was mostly fabricated and an intentional trial run for recruiting younger generations into movements that would transition to outright fascism. Pizzagate and Q-anon conspiracies were intentionally started to reduce the fallout from the Epstein files… both of these operations worked far, far better than the people behind them expected.

    EDIT: I almost forgot, one reason why many Democrats keep moving right and away from their base despite all the evidence that this is costing them votes is because their post-mortem on Gamergate and Q-anon revealed how wildly effective these operations were and they think they can win with the same play at some point in the future.

    There is an ongoing conspiracy to erode the public education system in the US to perpetuate and increase the advantages the children of the wealthy already have. Contrary to what most people believe, the introduction of more technology in the classroom is just one part of this effort, and only leads to “better outcomes” because those outcomes are defined as being a more efficient drone from sector 7-C.

    The continued effort to represent LLMs as something closer to General AI is so that at some point, an improved version can be present as having “reasoned” that humanity will prosper if we perpetuate the current system and give tech billionaires more money. The main reason why it’s failing at present is that many people have noticed a larger than normal number of folks are not, in fact, prospering and feel threatened by what is basically three high power grammar checkers in a trench coat. If the economy picks up before the AI bubble bursts, this may succeed.

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    The AI bubble is actually a cover used by cloud providers to engage in racketeering. I assume that it is encouraged by the alphabet agencies to setup a network that aggregates advertiser data to match up browser fingerprints and spy on Americans in mass without warrants. The ram shortage was engineered to force adoption for the cloud primarily for small business and sectors that have avoided it due to cost. Retail is a casualty and gaming is next. They don’t care about AI, its just the wrench that tightens the bolt

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      I am praying this is wrong SO MUCH.

      I’m happy seeing so many kids getting into retro hardware and actual computing and physical media and stuff. We should tighten that bolt.

      As much trouble as we’ve got, I REALLY will not live in this “everything is just a terminal to The Cloud™” world. It’s disgusting.

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      I have an HP printer. The HP app on my laptop used to be able to scan documents and so on. Last time I opened it, the only way to use this was to scan my document into the HP Cloud and then download it from there. Fuck. That. Shit.

      Fortunately my PDF reader can initiate the scan directly, so I’ll be just deleting that HP app.

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    That anxiety and depression are just symptoms of deep problems, and not in and of themselves psychological conditions. It’s cheaper and less work to just throw meds at the symptoms then it is to do the work to find why people are struggling with the anxiety and depression. Many of the deeper issue causing them are from how are society works, and can’t be changed or fixed easily, but I don’t know, maybe if everyone realized that our society is hurting us this badly we could do something about it. But no, “here take these meds that will numb the pain and every emotion you have, now be a good little worker drone and get back to grind. It’s not the society that’s the issue, it just you… And everyone else that we are also giving these meds too.”

    That being said, if the meds are the only thing keeping you from ending it all, do what you got to do. Meds are a tool and tools should be used if they are helpful.

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      That is the last fucking straw. As soon as my debt is cleared, if my father does not materialize his business within a year, I’m disappearing to a mountain, and if someone still finds a reason to follow me, and try to get me back to civilization, they eat an arrow.

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      This one big time.

      It’s anecdotal but like 90% of my psychological torment disappeared overnight when I quit a horrible job I’d been trapped in for 8 years.

      A lot of recovery work I’m doing is trying to undo all that. It made me insufferably cynical, angry, depressed, anxiety to 11. But it paid bills.

      The other 10% is ADHD. Society also punishes that one in fun ways. (And has now turned it into yet another marketing trend. Hooray.)

      But being denied free will to act in the world and determine one’s own course is damaging to the human psyche. Being coerced into doing something stupidly pointless on top of that, for little in return, is even more damaging still.

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      Fun fact this is actually a well known proven thing! Hide the pain harold.jxl

      Study apon study has found that by reducing work, giving people their basic needs, and letting us follow our passions makes us exponentially more productive and happier. But that would only benifit the commoners since the rich/powerful already have all that, and why would the people at the top help when they get off on the feeling of power

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      I mean… they could actually be fixed easily if enough people would understand the actual problems:

      Concentration of power and wealth.

      The loneliness epidemic alone could be solved by simply creating non-profit software for dating and social connections that are not designed for maximum user and advertisement time per day (e. g. doom scrolling), but instead for providing the best results for their users in the shortest time frame possible as to not have a negative impact on their offline lives.

      You could pay so many mental health professionals and doctors if you would just have a hard cap on wealth and a 100% tax rate at that maximum cap.

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    Malicious coding by Facebook and google if you dont use their apps. I know they’re doing it but I can’t prove it.

    Or websites purposely loading slowly or not at all if you have Linux installed. I could see that happening.

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        they have been know for as long as they did to vpn users, at least eariler 2024. apparently they have been increasing thier filters to target other things like different kinds of proxies anti-detection methods that spammers use. and my favorite is do the BARE minimum against russian troll farms, palintir bots, and AI.

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    Did you know that there’s a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it.

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    That the U.S. tested an innovative drive technology for drones during the Nimitz incidents in 2004.

    These “UAPs” always seem to miracolously appear near US military bases, aircraft carriers and sometimes submarines, but apparently never around Europe, Africa or Asia where millions of people with phones could film them. The U.S. may have pretended to be upset, but they’re not actually interested in finding out what they are or what people could find out about them, because they did not release the footage from the helmet cameras of the pilots. They actually stayed pretty calm, so they know what it actually was: Their drones. They’re near military assets, because that’s where they’re tested and the U.S. wants to see how a military would react to these device to protect them against tactics that can detect them or bring them down before they are/were used abroad.

    So they have a drive technology that can go beyond hypersonic, is accelerating really really fast, can’t be fought with properly.

    My guess is that they keep this secret, because of the nuclear threat it poses. If any state in this world could deliver nuclear bombs in an instant, you simply couldn’t retaliate or defend in any meaningful way. Except maybe with a deeply burrowed SUNDIAL project device.

    I also read that the Ukrainians use material (especially explosives) which were buried in the former territory of the USSR by the CIA in the time window shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed to conduct some of their covert special operations inside the Russian Federation. That way you don’t have to smuggle in new stuff and the U.S. can profit from destroyed Russian military capabilities.

    My guess is that they probably did not just bury normal material there. I think the superpowers have may have buried several nuclear warheads underground in major cities that they can detonate at any time to immediately first strike or retaliate in case of a larger nuclear attack. Why bother with sending a ballistic hypersonic rocket that the enemy can possibly intercept if you can just detonate the device remotely and with almost no delay? Whether you detonate the device under or above the city doesn’t really matter if the yield is big enough to let the city fall into a nuclear polluted crater. This would be an additional reason for why the U.S. moved from atmospheric to underground testing of nuclear devices - apart from the concerns regarding fallout.

    Oh and an algorithm based, individually tailored (to you) social media “experience” is probably the new MK ULTRA and it works much better.

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      Modern nukes contain a subcritical mass of fissile material and require an injection of tritium to arm them, and also require tritium for their second stage to get most of their rated yield. Tritium doesn’t last very long, so needs regularly topping up. If you’ve secretly buried a nuke, you’ll have to dig it up pretty often, undermining the advantages of secret burial. There’s also not much point in having a better nuclear deterrent than your enemy knows about, as the goal is to make them know you can destroy them so they’re too scared to attack you rather than to actually destroy them.

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        Well, then you build it in a way that doesn’t require Tritium. After all, if the bomb doesn’t need to be transported, you can build it heavier. So you don’t need to make it an H-bomb that requires Tritium.

        It wouldn’t be used as a deterrent. It would be used as a retaliation mechanism.

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          There’s no point retaliating once you’re dead unless the enemy knows it’s something you might do. You also can’t make a plain A-bomb arbitrarily big as you need the fuel to be small enough to be subcritical until it’s assembled, and simple enough to assemble that it spends so little time critical but not supercritical that a random decay doesn’t cause a chain reaction to start before the mass is fully compressed. If it starts too early, there’s enough energy to blow the bomb apart, which stops the reaction continuing. The more material you add, the more often random decays happen, and the likelier it becomes that the reaction starts prematurely. The theoretical limit is somewhere between 500kT and 1MT, which isn’t very much for a city buster, especially if you’ve buried it. You’d have to use more than one, but a pure fission bomb is very senstive to nearby nuclear detonations, so only the first one would be likely to work.

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    A whole lot of those creepy ass insta/FB/TikTok videos of too young girls in bathing suits and shit are directly related to CSAM and child rape.

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      And some of them are run by their parents

      On purpose

      Also the Mar-a-lago crowd doesn’t go for bikinis or revealing clothing, what gets the off is innocence

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    on a non-human related, about biology. thismia americana(fairy latern) is sitll out there somewhere, originally it was found in chicago and arou calumet, but it was heavily developed, and it was “like distinct” whats unique is thismia is mostly a tropical species in ASIA and alledgely south america and central(likely a different genus), how did it end up america especially a temperate area.

    it was found a few times over 100+years ago, and never found after that by PFIFFER. while new thismia species keep being discovered IN SE asia every year(likely origin of the clade thismia) and even 2 extinct species were found to be alive (kobensis(japan) and neptunis(151years later). because the flower is so small its likely hidden in leaf litter and its extremely difficult to find the other species.

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    DuckDuckGo is actually a honeypot for the NSA that significantly reduces the amount of data they need to process by virtue of its advertised use case.

    Think about it. Everytime some dumb criminal gets caught, there’s always a report about them searching up how to do the crime on Google, which the police collects as part of their investigation.

    A “smart” criminal/terrorist would then avoid common search engines and would opt for DDO since they don’t share or collect search data.

    DDO just doesn’t share that data with advertisers, trackers, and regular police/FBI like how other search engines do, but they do share it with the NSA just like every other search engine did via PRISM.

    NSA uses the data for whatever purpose and helps to ensure DDO’s security. DDO also never compromises on sharing its data to anyone except the NSA to maintain an image of security and privacy to would be criminals.

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    The difference between truth and lies doesn’t matter, it is all in the way people behave. Our culture is being manipulated by techniques that cannot be communicated to the masses because of strawmen put up in the media. The people who spread misinformation and propaganda know how it works better than you do and you are falling for their traps regardless of whether or not you believe it. The vast majority of people believe they aren’t sheep no matter how obviously they are. Weaknesses in people’s psychology are propagated and abused and this has happened for all of recorded history. We are led by herd mentality, people don’t have to willingly do anything as long as they see other people doing the same thing.

    But that’s just speculation and cannot be proven by science, lol.

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    Army has drones that can do anything they want. The UAPs over the east coast sighted were their own crap. Army friends go pale when I bring it up.

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    That the next generation/the one after it will be the first generation to mostly accept non-human art as standard art

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    that’s not a conspiracy theory, adblock devs are aware of this and I think it was even discussed at the yt-dlp project as they are affected too.