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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    Elon musk is only known as the richest person. He chooses to pay taxes and not hide his wealth simply because he wants to be seen as the richest person. There are far richer people in the world that we simply don’t know about because they hide their wealth and don’t brag online.

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      Putin being one, he can effectively use the whole Russian budget as his own piggy bank

      Dude has a billion dollar Dacha protected by the best of the best of Russian military air defence and nobody bats an eye

      The probability of him not doing some heinous shit behind closed doors is zero

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        I read about one of his billion dollar yachts when it was seized. Apparently it costs over one million dollars to fill the fuel tank. Think about that next time you’re at the pump!

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        and no other country wants to put harsher sanctions on russia, because he likely has krompromat on most leaders(besides his frenemies, like china and iran thats probably the one country he doesnt want to cross), plus paying for most if not all conservative government parties in many countries.

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      If you want to take it further, he’s the richest man in terms of numbers.

      At the end of the day, money only matters as far as HOW you can spend it.

      The Zucc poured $77,000,000,000 into a fucking vr sim. WHY?!?!

      If you’re bothered spending time tricking people into thinking you’re the #1 Path of Exile player in the world, you probably aren’t considered highly on the world stage.

      Think of how Putin may utilise that much wealth.

      Don’t get me wrong, spaceships are cool, but… Let’s be real… Nobody is going to live on Mars in Elon Musks lifetime…

      Trump is a dickhead, but at least taking Venezuela and Greenland are realistic goals lol