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.
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.
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
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
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!
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.
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.
Average DMT user
I’m actually a longtime meditator (tho I have partaken of hallucinogens in the past). It’s pretty great.
John Carpenter’s “They Live” style?
Ya sorta
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.
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
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.
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.
Oh like a Chrome book?
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
Cat ears are more sensitive and more directional than ours; their little dorito ears have more gain, and they can swivel them around. If you ever see a cat staring at apparently nothing, she’s probably not looking, she’s probably listening, and depending on how her ears are configured maybe not in the direction her face is pointed.
A cat is staring at a wall outlet? The wires might be loose and arcing, causing a ticking sound that pushes the “rodent detected” button in kitty’s head.
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.
Yea my cat acts like there are things when there aren’t
That you know of. Muahaha
My uncle George is like this too
Yeah but so does a baby
Yeah newborn startle reflex kinda shows that.
What are they startled by nothing changed nothing happened but still they get around like sun bears
The universe is a simulation, and not only is it impossible to disprove (non-falsifiable), but it would imply that you could be the only thinking consciousness here (Cartesian Solipsism)
Consider:
- the universe has rendering rules, treating objects differently when they are observed, to the point where objects do not have set properties when unobserved (Bell Inequality)
- this holds for even arbitrarily large objects, as scientists have been able to demonstrate molecules containing thousands of atoms demonstrating wave-particle duality
- The Universe has a frame rate (Planck time)
- the Universe has a resolution (Planck length)
- The most basic level of the universe is discrete (energy quanta)
While I choose not to go for the solipsism, I am becoming increasingly persuaded of the simulation theory’s likelihood.
Im a little worried about that. I’m both hoping for and am terrified of it being the Roy game from Rick and Morty.
I’d be relieved because I’d get an “extra life” style of thing, but also I’d be fucking mortified seeing all my pals around waiting for their turn, having watched me goon my turn away.
There’s warzones, scientific breakthroughs to pioneer, robot pets, space exploration, gargantuan beasts to take down, lost treasures to find, and I’m just sat at the cartoon-titties box thr whole time.
I’m personally far more concerned that the universe is a simulation stuffed in the closet of some higher-dimensional flunkie, and our universe is nothing more than a practice piece. That the answer to “why” could be so mundane as to make all effort in our universe entirely meaningless. It’s one thing to say that the universe as we know it will end in heat death, or some false vacuum decay event, and that all effort is therefore meaningless. It’s very different, on an emotional level, to consider the possibility that the universe is a mistake, some Petri dish left in the incubator too long and overgrown with contaminating flora. Even more unsettling, then, that such a possibility is fundamentally unknowable from within the universe.
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.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
Did you know that there’s a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it.
I will
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.
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
I’m so glad I avoid that
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.
They also make the page slower in non-Chrome browsers like Safari and Firefox
the right medication would fix me
Welp, guess I’ll have to keep looking 😃
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.
The Taliban became popular because they outlawed Bacha Bazi and other ludicrous acts committed by the criminally insane warlords which became the Northern Alliance which became the Afghanistan Government until they were yet again toppled by the same Taliban after the US left.
And the Afghan Taliban and Palestinian Hamas don’t make 12 year old girls or younger their sex slaves?
Text prediction on iOS is so terrible because they’re using people to train ai
Their swipe typing is the worst ever and somehow keeps getting worse. It’s constantly capitalizing it but not consistently. And “and” always becomes Andy or Andee. I appreciate it being contact aware, but I use the word and way more listen than I use anyone’s name.
It just wanted to use Antoine’s instead of anyone’s. I don’t even know an Antoine. I think fully 1/4-1/3 of these words had to be retyped by hand.
The random capitalization just kills me, and the word substitutions… Like it will display the correct word and then just as I’m hitting the send button swap it out with something wildly offensive
It’s definitely gotten worse with time. Sinister shit is the only thing that makes sense. When i came from android it was shocking how bad it was. Now it’s just conspiracy fuel
