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.
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.
It’s fun to dereference jargon - like an initialism - the first time you use it. And really helpful!
It’s a very interesting videogame!