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  • ‘What the hell?’ House Speaker confuses White House with claim Trump was an FBI snitch

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  • I heard about it on a youtube video a few days ago, but if I recall the claims are coming from the author of a book. I think it was a biography of Trump, but it's been a little while and that detail was only briefly mentioned. I don't think there was anything concrete in terms of evidence, but the source did have a connection to both Trump and Epstein in that he interviewed them as part of his work. This wouldn't be the first time an interviewer claimed something that turned out to be false such as the sports writer that claimed Trump Jr. told him they got all the financing they need from Russia and so don't need US banks, but there's also not any reason to particularly doubt the claims either.

  • ‘What the hell?’ House Speaker confuses White House with claim Trump was an FBI snitch

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  • So I saw a pretty believable breakdown that would absolutely explain this. It's basically because they had a messy falling out over Trump being a spoiled brat. The timeline is as follows.

    The inciting incident was Epstein putting in what he thought was a winning bid on a new mansion. Confident in his bid he then showed the property off to his good buddy Trump and asked some advice on some renovations he was planning. Trump then went to his Russian buddies, got a "loan" and put in a higher bid on the property ultimately winning it. This pissed Epstein off who was further confused because he knew Trump had been having financial problems and didn't have enough money to cover the bid he put in. Six months later Trump sold the property to the same Russian who had given him the money in the first place for twice what Trump paid for it laundering millions of dollars in the process. Epstein correctly realized that Trump just used his property that he swiped from him to launder Russian money which pissed him off even more. Enraged he called Trump and threatened to expose the money laundering. In retaliation Trump then informed the FBI about what Epstein had been up to on his island which is what ultimately led to his arrest. Whether Trump and/or the Russians then silenced Epstein and whether that was about Trumps participation in Epstein's crimes or about the money laundering who knows, but it definitely makes some pieces fit.

    Edit: Dug up the video the claim was made in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTz6X5Bh_lw

  • Trump threatens EU with tariff investigation after Google hit with $3.45 billion antitrust fine

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  • Also what the fuck is a "tariff investigation"? It's hard to believe he's shying away from saying he'll raise tariffs again, he's certainly threatened it often enough, but maybe the TACO title is starting to bother him. Maybe he's trying to figure out a way to threaten tariffs that won't look so obvious when he inevitably backs down.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • This is such a strange concept. Like fundamentally a subscription is just a mechanism to allow a viewer to easily keep track of new content on a channel. By viewing the channels contents you're engaging in 100% of the interaction you should be expected to have with a subscribed channel. If Google really wanted to address the problem of old subscriptions people are ignoring they should just prompt people to unsubscribe to channels that they haven't watched any videos from in a long time. Instead they're fucking with view counts because that saves them money. The whole thing is fishy, but Google has always treated being inscrutable and capricious as if those were virtues.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • Same, but it depends on the goal. If the goal is to have an excuse not to pay creators while still cashing paychecks from advertisers it seems like a pretty smart move. A dick move certainly, but seems to be working exactly as intended.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • The problem is that there aren't any really viable alternatives. YouTube has three major advantages and all three are necessary. First and most critically it has a viable business model (that is it has a way to earn money to pay creators). It's a shitty business model, but it is viable which already puts it ahead of most services that are coasting on VC funds and hoping they'll trip over a business model before they go bankrupt. Second it has the infrastructure and capital to actually serve content. Running a video streaming service is the single largest bandwidth consumer you could possibly come up with and that means considerable network infrastructure costs, to say nothing of the storage demands. Third it has network effect going for it. Nobody is going to watch videos on your platform if there's only a couple dozen of them total. The sheer size and scope of YouTube means no matter what you're looking for you can find something to watch. It's a one stop shop for AV content.

    Every single competitor to YouTube has failed on one of those points, usually the first one, rarely the second. The last service I saw come close to hitting all three was Vimeo, but it flamed out not even a decade after it launched. Twitch.tv is struggling to make their accounting work and isn't even a direct competitor because they're pushing hard for live streams as opposed to pre-recorded videos. Alternatives like PeerTube have no business model and will never attract creators or a mainstream audience. Paid hosting platforms like Floatplane are replacements for traditional video streaming services like Amazon Video or Netflix not really platforms where just anybody can set up a channel and start posting videos.

    To paraphrase a famous saying, YouTube is the worst public video streaming service except for every other one. Until someone comes along and figures out how to make enough money to reliably pay creators and has enough capital to actually serve that content reliably and in high quality YouTube isn't going anywhere.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • It seems like YouTube is doing something where they don't consider views to be actual "views" anymore. I saw one creator reporting that you only get credit as a view if you also leave a comment on the video because I guess Google thinks this will somehow hamper bots? Sounds like a bunch of bullshit no matter how you look at it. Personally I think Google is just trying to avoid paying creators so they're only crediting them for a fraction of the views they get, but you just know they're charging those advertisers for every single view whether they're paying the creators or not.

  • The plot to kill Americans: Kennedy escalates attacks on vaccines

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  • The thing is it's not one goal and it's not rational. There are multiple sub-groups that are each pursuing their own insanity under the larger crazy umbrella. Under the more children group you've got, a) capitalists wanting cheap child labor, b) doomsday cultists that want more kids because gestures vaguely towards crazy shit in the bible, c) pedophiles that want more kids because of reasons I will not elaborate on, and d) other doomsday cultists that don't actually want more children they're just opposed to abortion and are really dumb. Then under the anti-vaccine groups we've got, a) capitalists wanting cheap child labor, b) conspiracy theorists that are just really really dumb, c) contrarians that don't actually care one way or another they just do the opposite of whatever they're told, and d) bog standards morons that are scared by the fancy science people words therefore they must be bad.

    For instance, RFK Jr. himself is just a really stupid conspiracy theorist. I don't know if he's expressed any specific opinion on birth rates but he likely doesn't really care outside of maybe going after specific birth control pills because of whatever insane conspiracy theory is hot this month.

  • Project 2025 group wants huge changes to policy to encourage more kids

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  • Tanking the economy thereby massively increasing financial insecurity, you know the number one thing that discourages people from deciding to have kids.

  • A downturn in international travel to the U.S. may last beyond summer, experts warn

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  • Spoiler alert, it will last at least a few more years, possibly longer. Trump and his gestapo have made it clear that the US is closed for business as long as he's in charge. The next great depression is just getting started.

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    Salesforce tech CEO says AI enabled him to cut 4,000 jobs

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  • He's a CEO that's practically the job description under late stage capitalism. That and being an amoral piece of shit that would happily grind up children if there were no consequences and it would earn them 1% more profit.

  • Donald Trump says he is not a dictator. Isn’t he?

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  • He isn't yet but he really wants to be. At the moment what's left of the US government is still holding him back some, not everyone is willing to go along with his complete disregard for the law. The real turning point will come down to the next election and whether he's managed to rip out enough democracy and replace it with a sham to guarantee his "win" or not. The biggest roadblock towards that is unfortunately the Supreme Court a body that has already been almost entirely corrupted thanks to decades of work by previous Republican presidents.

    So yes, he isn't a dictator yet, but it's not looking like there's anything stopping him from getting there eventually.

  • Top FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos in which he criticized Covid vaccines

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  • Time for turbo Streisand effect. Going to need a few dozen mirrors of those six videos now.

  • Lego Will No Longer Ship Individual Pieces Thanks to Trump Tariffs

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  • Yes in general, but it's not really economical for Lego to stand up a manufacturing facility in every country they sell in. If their current factory produces enough parts to meet their needs it doesn't make any sense to open new factories just to skirt tariffs. It wouldn't be a problem in the first place if the tariffs weren't ridiculously high. You can't blame Lego for not wanting to saddle their customers with tariffs on something that's free to people living in sane countries.

  • GOP Investigation Pressures Wikipedia to Reveal Identities of Editors Accused of 'Bias' Against Israel

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  • [Citation Needed]

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    Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO has inspired followers, prosecutors say

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  • It didn't used to. It used to be that medical debt was excluded from your credit report. That changed recently though thanks to, you guessed it, Republicans.

  • Trump says the U.S. would accept 600,000 Chinese students, sparking uproar among some conservatives

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  • Don't drag Rocko into this, he doesn't deserve that.

    Fun fact, that show is now 32 years old, and the final season aired 29 years ago. TIL Netflix made a Rocko's Modern Life special in 2019.

  • Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

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  • Ah, classic mistake. The grand jury would have indicted the ham sandwich but they made the mistake of trying to prosecute the guy who threw it instead.

    As they start trying to crank up the fascism hopefully we'll see more of this and jury nullification pushing back against these constitutional violations.

  • Donald Trump health fears erupt again over strange spot on hand

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  • The problem is Vance is the main one pushing the christo-fascist stuff. Trump is a greedy stupid narcissist which can (and has) caused plenty of short term damage. Enough short term damage can stack up to long term damage, but even that is recoverable. Over a long enough time scale foreign relations can be patched, soft power slowly restored. Nothing he has done domestically has been too catastrophic yet. Vance though has the potential intelligence to do some seriously long term lasting damage, the kind of stuff that would E.G. enshrine his particular flavor of Christianity as the national religion and make anyone who isn't male and white a second class citizen. Once society gets tilted in that direction restoring it becomes incredibly hard. Like overthrow the government hard.

    Trump in contrast is basically a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. Sure he might break stuff, but broken things are easier to repair than things that have been maliciously constructed. The fascist systems Vance might build are far scarier than whatever Trump comes up with because what Trump makes never lasts. Just wait a little while and it will naturally collapse from greed, incompetence, and infighting. Vance I fear could make something stable though.

    The silver lining in this I suppose is that Vance lacks the conman skills that have allowed Trump to weaponize morons and force others to go along with his delusions. Without the throngs of MAGAts supporting him Vance won't be able to strongarm the rest of the GOP the way Trump has which would hamper his efforts.