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What lurking suspicion do you have about something but is hard to prove? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 days ago by Ryoae@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.

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