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.
Basic facts of human psychology and behavior that most people in active denial about because it makes them feel/look bad.
Even talking about this stuff makes people VERY uncomfortable and angry. Especially given most people subscribe to just world theories that people are inherently good or evil and what happens to them in life is justified because of that inherent quality they feel usually is attributed from some universal force. People really can’t cope with how random ‘evil’ can really be.
The scariest part is that anyone can become anything, given the right circumstances. Nobody is inherently good or evil, and most of the people who endlessly moralize about others, themselves tend towards more evil behaviors. I especially enjoy how the ‘anti evil’ people are so eager to enact violence on others or in the name of others.
The separation between human beings and screaming monkeys throwing poop at each other is a lot closer than most people are comfortable to admit, to the point where there is significant overlap.
People really do not like to be reminded that the only thing that separates us from animals is our ability to save information.
Seriously, it all comes down to collected knowledge.
Don’t have that issue with Youtube (running on regular firefox and with a pihole on top).
I rather have issues with my googlehome being a bit more useless because I blocked outgoing DNS lookups except for whitelisted services.I strongly suspect that Musk has found some near infinite money fugazzi, likely leveraging AI with crypto, while plundering Government coffers.
Ok but what would materially change if he suddenly got eleventy billion gajjillion dollars instead of the $850 billion he supposedly has now? Or the $100 billion he has 2 years ago?
There is really no difference.
I think everyone else gets collectively poorer.
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.
When George Lucas was filming A New Hope he did not have the notion developed that Vader was actually Luke’s father, and that he only came up with it after the movie was released. There is no actual foreshadowing of this, no hints, and really nothing in A New Hope would even point to this possibility. To say Vader “killed your father” but to really mean “uhhhh I meant the ‘Vader’ persona metaphorically ‘killed’ the person your father was” is such a ridiculous stretch I just don’t get why more people don’t ever call this out. The much more straightforward explanation is that Lucas came up with the idea as a way to build up drama in the movies that followed, after A New Hope was already out.
Your theory makes total sense except for one thing. “Darth Vader” is essentially a direct translation of “dark father.”
I’m currently rewatching Once Upon A Time. This is a big spoiler for season five, episode 7. Merlin claims the first dark one killed his true love and then we find out that the first dark one was his true love and he was speaking metaphorically just like Obi-Wan about Vader and Anakin. This wasn’t a later retcon either cause it’s in the same episode. It was the writers deliberately misleading us for a surprise. I think they got the idea from Star Wars. The show references Star Wars a lot
He didn’t plan Luke and Leia being siblings. Unless he was into incest. There are cut scenes in Empire Strikes Back that show them being romantic with each other. They kiss in the final cut of the film too, but she was just trying to make Han jealous
I wonder if that was selected as a way to resolve the love triangle once Lucas realized that there’s a reason romantic comedies usually make one of the members of love triangles villains, or at least don’t let the audience get as close with both competers. Shows/movies that do are instead dramas, which are a completely different tone from the light-hearted romance he was going for.
Yeah, it seems like it may have been a way to resolve the love triangle. Of course, Harrison Ford almost didn’t come back for Return of the Jedi. I wonder if Luke and Leia would have ended up together in that scenario.
I thought that was an established fact.
Google don’t hinder shit with my yt-dlp script and Jellyfin server.
Israel is a pedo escape haven.
And the Afghan Taliban and Palestinian Hamas don’t make 12 year old girls or younger their sex slaves? Because through history I’m willing to bet one side is far worse.
Lol. Downvotes. I’m not saying the person I’m replying to is wrong but let’s not pretend Muslims are just as innocent. Or Christians for that matter.
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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.
A pet schizoid head theory: Every time I have a weird thought about “what if I crashed here/drove into oncoming traffic/the boat I’m on sank/the plane I’m in crashed into another plane/hadn’t avoided a near death experience” that my original timeline is split and that thing did happen and I died but I’m hopped into the timeline where it didn’t happen and was just a thought. (It’d be kinda like SOMA where you can just see the glimmer of this concept at times)
Real theory that I can’t prove: All of the US government (with a couple small outliers) is run by Israel and its proxies and christofascism is part of that plan. And this isn’t an anti Jewish thing. I have nothing against Jews, I have everything against Israel. It’s an “AIPAC runs both parties and works with others to ensure the downfall of the us continues along their approved course” thing.
Edit: For the uninitiated SOMA as I reference here is a light horror game that dabbles in concepts akin to what I’m now learning is called quantum immortality.
Your first theory is called quantum immortality.
Oh really? That’s kinda cool, I had no idea it had a name. I’ll have to search for more info on it.
I both love and hate finding out my weird thoughts have a basis elsewhere. On the one hand I like that there is more to learn about it and more opinions and perspectives to see. Sometimes makes me feel less crazy. On the other hand I don’t like being reminded that I have zero original thoughts. And I worry that we are all equally crazy. Lol
SOMA
It’s fun to dereference jargon - like an initialism - the first time you use it. And really helpful!
yeah I only know it from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, but doesn’t fit the context
Yeah definitely didn’t mean the literary reference.
SOMA as I reference here is a light horror game that dabbles in concepts akin to what I’m now learning is called quantum immortality. Though the implementation in game is probably more closely an experiment in applied ships of Theseus. It just asks the question and explores the concept of “what makes you, you”. Though you do have moments where you catch a glimpse of yourself dying.
I suppose I should’ve done the same with AIPAC? 🙃
As the other commentor mentioned, SOMA as I referenced here, is a video game. Within the game you can momentarily see yourself die at times and it has some philosophical discussion around this concept and what makes you, you.
It’s a very interesting videogame!
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… 👀
People can change and opinions can change :) the brain does a lot of processing itself.https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=processing+painful+memories&oq=processing+painful+mem#d=gs_qabs&t=1772031476416&u=%23p%3DhKK6MlHuq8QJ
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
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?
You ever hear about those “internet detox” camps in China?
I just have an intrusive thought like: what if my parents got some sketchy psychairist that used ECT on me in order to “get rid of my ‘behavior issues’” (aka: make me more obedient to my parents) and it also would wipe my memories of that ever happening…
Like I don’t treat this theory as 100% true, but its just one of the hundred of “what if my life is a lie” thoughts I have… since I feel very skeptical of everything…
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Do I sound “schizo”?
I mean I do have depression…
Yeah… idk if I even wanna mention these intrusive thoughts to a therapist. I feel like they’re gonna lock me up for sounding so schizo.
Google is munging results it sends to DDG and other filtering search engines
At this point it seem like more of a reach to believe they aren’t
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.
An interesting theory, but I think the key question that needs to be answered is: why would OpenAI stakeholders be prepared to tank the company for Microsoft?
I’m not saying it’s impossible. There could be some sort of tie between Altman and Microsoft, or the high level executives or shareholders of OpenAI.
And who would be left holding the bag? NVIDIA? Is this a scheme to get them to make a ton of AI-centered GPU’s, so that when OpenAI goes down Microsoft would be able to buy that hardware super cheap? Maybe, but then again someone else could too, which would be easier if OpenAI’s assets were on the open market.
I’m not buying this theory yet, but it’s kntriguing enough to keep an eye on at least.
I guess in this situation the upper mgmt are in on the deal and under MSFT’s thumb and get to earn top dollar and be a special boy CEO for a few years.
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.
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AI boosters (Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, etc) are excellent liars and great storytellers, and rich people eat that shit up.
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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.
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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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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.
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.
