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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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[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 minutes ago

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.

[-] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 2 minutes ago

Google don't hinder shit with my yt-dlp script and Jellyfin server.

[-] Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml 2 points 46 minutes ago

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.

[-] saintash72@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

Your theory makes total sense except for one thing. "Darth Vader" is essentially a direct translation of "dark father."

[-] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I strongly suspect that Musk has found some near infinite money fugazzi, likely leveraging AI with crypto, while plundering Government coffers.

[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 0 points 37 minutes ago

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.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 minutes ago

SOMA

It's fun to dereference jargon - like an initialism - the first time you use it. And really helpful!

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago

Israel is a pedo escape haven.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago

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... 👀

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

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

[-] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago

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:

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

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?

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 27 minutes ago

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...

...

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.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Google is munging results it sends to DDG and other filtering search engines

[-] ehxor@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago

At this point it seem like more of a reach to believe they aren’t

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 12 points 18 hours ago

That nobody actually thought kids hiding under the desks would protect them from bombs. It was all a lie to try and reassure people

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 17 hours ago

It depends on how far away you are. Close enough to be instantly vaporized, probably not. Far enough that it just collapses the building, might do some good.

[-] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

Also in places with false ceilings and hanging fixtures even light shockwaves can cause stuff to fall. Falling stuff, small fragile heads - just better to take cover than not.

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