I can’t upvote this enough. You have good comic timing.

No it isn’t. Look, this isn’t an argument, it’s just contradiction.

When you try to watch a video on YouTube, you’re immediately confronted with an advertisement - a mandatory interruption designed to extract value from your attention. These ads are part of a calculated system where Google, YouTube’s parent company, turns every moment of your online experience into a monetizable commodity.

The process is frustratingly simple: an ad starts playing, and you’re given two unsatisfying choices. You can either sit through the entire advertisement or press the skip button after a few seconds, both of which serve Google’s ultimate goal of generating revenue. It’s a digital toll booth where you’re forced to pay with your time and personal data.

YouTube’s tracking algorithms scrutinize your online behavior, collecting vast amounts of personal information to serve ads that are supposedly “tailored” to your interests. In reality, this is just sophisticated surveillance masquerading as convenience. Every click, every viewed video, every moment of your online activity becomes a data point for their massive advertising machine.

When Google purchased YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, they acquired more than just a video platform - they gained a powerful tool for data collection and targeted advertising. Content creators are essentially trapped in a system where they must play by Google’s rules, accepting whatever revenue scraps are thrown their way while the tech giant profits enormously.

The platform presents itself as a free service, but the real cost is your privacy and attention. Millions of users are funneled through an advertising pipeline, their viewing experiences constantly interrupted by corporate messaging. What was once a revolutionary platform for sharing videos has transformed into a highly sophisticated advertising delivery system.

Every ad you’re forced to watch represents a small victory for Google’s relentless monetization strategy. You’re not a viewer - you’re a product being sold to advertisers, your attention carved up and packaged into marketable segments. The “free” video you want to watch comes with strings attached - strings pulled tightly by one of the world’s most powerful tech corporations.

Just press skip.

Not sent by aliens, just by Putin. Not to sabotage the whole human race, just NATO.

Paying taxes isn’t the bad bit of this. That’s a Republican lie itself.

sulfuric acid makes an orange cloud when poured on chicken shit, and that your mom isn’t pleased when said cloud moves through the drying laundry

Sulfurous is not a lovely smell. I would also not be pleased.

I’m pretty confident about the nitric acid. It’s not called nitroglycerine for nothing. I seem to remember my chemistry teacher saying that nitric acid and something else make a nitrating mixture, and when you do that to glycerine you get nitroglycerine.

I flunked chemistry, though, so don’t set great store by what I remember!

What is Donald Trump if not an unaccountable elite?

If ICE can detain you without checking your papers and with no due process for the crime of looking a bit too bronze, what good is a new type of visa?

You’d need Nitric acid too, iirc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebBq2769J6M

Who says romance is dead!

I’m hoping that I’m misinterpreting what you’re saying.

No it isn’t! An argument is a connected sequence of statements designed to draw a conclusion. It isn’t just saying “no it isn’t”!

Ah yes, the CYMKI ink cartridges!

Subtle, yet blatant. I like it.

Oh, actually, during lunch break on the interview day: “I recall that you mentioned enjoying fine art. Who are some of your favourite artists?”
Or
“My sister is into aqua zumba, is that the kind of rhythmic exercise you’re into?”

Er, don’t list it as a hobby in your CV, that’s my advice.

Yes it is!

I was a boy, and I appreciate it.

As long as you keep your socks on.

Wait, when you say “ride”, which position did you want to… Oh well, erm, never mind, forget I asked. Uhm… Yeah, bro, whatever, sounds fun. I’m there for you, bro.

You’ve gotta spice up your love life, dude, change things around every so often, try something new occasionally. You might both like it.