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.
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
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.”
I myself recently realized that the anxiety and depression I suffered from as a teen was caused by childhood trauma, being undiagnosed neurodigergent, and being Queer. All things society at large tries to ignore or out right hate. Any none of the mental health professionals tried to look into why I was struggling, they just gave me meds and sent me on my way.
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.
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
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.
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.
they can have organic causes as in disease or some kind genetic issue, but mos tof the time its psychological
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.
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 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?
Exactly like a Chromebook. Those stupid things were (are?) such a coordinated landfill and education-decimating campaign.
With my mom in law’s, I had to go through so much crap to overwrite the bootloader using some saint’s scripts just so I could put Linux on it. The stupid thing (an Asus) actually said “We’re done updating this thing. Buy a new one. Lol.”
The way they foisted that Temu-grade hardware on impoverished schoolsystems across the country is disgusting.
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.
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.
deleted by creator
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.
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 presented 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.
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
No, you wont.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They also make the page slower in non-Chrome browsers like Safari and Firefox
sometimes the pages break more often too.
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.
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.
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.
-
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.
Embrace, extend and extinguish.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
