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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My assumption is that the goal of most modern tech giants is to become “too big to fail” and be bailed out like many banks were post 2008.
Bailouts only happen to companies with loads of employees. An AI company with loads of employees is an oxymoron!
Bailouts happen when the overall economic effect of letting a company fail would be more painful than using tax dollars to save it.
The number of employees at the institution in trouble is a factor, as it was with some of the banks in 2008, but think of all the wild deals AI companies are making for memory, hard drives, and data center construction. Each of those adds to the bottom line of other companies and their suppliers and subcontractors. If those contracts aren’t honored, many of those smaller companies lower down on the food chain are going to suffer, possibly go out of business, putting their employees out of work. And that’s not even considering the effect it’ll have on hedge funds and other financial institutions that hold stock in AI.
If it seems insane for AI companies to commit to huge purchases and massive projects before they have a clear revenue stream, it’s probably because it is, but if they can inflate the bubble enough they effectively hold both the US and global economy hostage. Since the US government clearly favors business over people, and so many tech companies have swung right to appease the orange lump currently in office, they stand a pretty good chance of getting bailed out and later subsidized in the event of a crash.
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.
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.
I forgot the exact quote, but the gist was that wealthy people don’t need to actively collude, because their interests naturally align: Lower taxes, less oversight, less restrictions what to do with their wealth, undermine any effort that might threaten existing power structures.
That also explains why they naturally seem to support authoritarianism and facism, because those systems offer exactly that.
Don’t the panama papers detail a lot of this and a financial trail of how they collaborate with one another?
It seems like the panama papers had been collectively forgotten 2 years later, but they give blatant evidence of the secret elite money laundering and invisible payment network of collaboration IIRC.
As far as Nazi ideology, fascism always goes hand in hand with corporatism, so it makes sense.
Yes, absolutely, I completely agree: the Panama Papers already made this very clear - and the fact that not one of those who benefited most from this outrageous multi-billion-dollar fraud against citizens was ever prosecuted already showed that both the law enforcement agencies of the countries and the political leadership are so deeply infiltrated that they simply do not fulfill even their most basic duties anymore. In other words: corruption on a scale that one can only conclude that even most of the remaining democracies must be rotten to the core.
And yes, you are also absolutely right with the second point: Nazi ideology has always been closely linked to the interests of business magnates. That is where the term fascism, as originally coined by Mussolini, comes from: autocratic rule by the economic elite.
What I wanted to point out with the example of the US, and specifically the Eppstein affair, is simply another example of how billionaires have now apparently come to the conclusion that, thanks to their corrupt accomplices in the corridors of political power, they are untouchable - and this is precisely how the US president is acting, who should actually have been in prison for decades for countless serious crimes. Unfortunately, he is not, but is now leading the US as the spearhead of international organized crime, which is unfortunately still not called that because, despite its obviousness, it is secured by state pseudo-legitimacy.
Edit: Another example from Europe is the CumEx scandal - here, too, the massive profiteers, all of whom are billionaires, have never been prosecuted for their massive tax fraud amounting to billions; only a few scapegoats have been convicted.
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?
Definitely not. I don’t post low effort snide comments as a reply and think that I’m witty.
Well, mostly I do it for the satisfaction of a response.
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.
I thought the ac was broken in my work truck for several days in July because I forgot I had turned the heat on one chilly morning and for some reason my eyes repeatedly didn’t catch that dumb temperature dial still turned to heat. I kept pushing the ac button on and off and then just ended up sweltering because I basically had the heat on in July.
That dumbassery will humble me for a while.
Another victim of the routine autopilot. It gets us all from time to time.
You may be overestimating how literate the average person is.
Everyone is ignorant in their own way and there is not a person alive you can’t learn something from.
Except for babies.
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.
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
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.
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.
I’m the smortest! I know how to do things
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.
me to until, i found out online spaces created safe space for pseudoscience, pseudointellectualism too. even people in stems fall into pseudoscience quite often.
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.
…these are the same kinds of people duped into voting for things against their own interest, they just know a lot about chemistry too.
An IT career led me to meet plenty of people like that. But those are some doozies. I feel like basic competency needs a certificate similar to a GED etc.
till
And you holding 3 degrees.
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I thought this was commonly known to be how human society works. Sometimes with just power and not literal wealth, but the same concept.
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you’re literally parroting the “wake up sheeple” trope
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it’s also how you become well-liked/popular. you parrot stuff that other popular people say.
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.
Sometimes I get the thought that I died years ago and this is really just Hell.
Reincarnate repeatedly into the underworld with amnesia as a form of torture is on the bingo card.
Ever see The Good Place?
The Mayans were right about 2012
The rapture already happened. None of us were spared.
It would explain a lot tbh.
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 right medication would fix me
Welp, guess I’ll have to keep looking 😃
Epstein is alive
Im more in the camp he was killed by agent orange.
this is a tangent but there’s a really good punk song about him with that title
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the french guy that "suicided’ in prison, because he was going turn against trump/epstein, just like epstein suicided.
Epstein is far too valuable to the Epstein class to be allowed to die.
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 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.
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.
Jokes on them. I grew up with a 56k modem. I can wait a few seconds for the video to load.
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.
It’s been done, Reddit is just Dem./alternative Truth Social now, if not fully in function definitely in spirit/attitudes.
The US/Israel, China, and Russia are collaborating to divide the entire world between them
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.
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.
This. I don’t have proof, of course, but every action you see them take points to this.
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.
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.
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
