YouTube is now training its AI to play ads right after "peak" moments in videos

Gemini, Google’s AI, can now identify parts of videos where viewer attention is highest, such as emotionally impactful moments, and suggest placing an ad after it

Definitely not the only cause like 90% of in my circle say they’re not having kids or having another kid because they can’t afford it. I do think other factors are at play but I think the main driver is the money

I think we've been the target of some crazy propaganda for a long time. Generally, I don't think people are just too busy. They have been conditioned to have their values shifted.

Community has been replaced with online community, which leads to loneliness and increased susceptibility to further manipulation.

Church has been replaced with the state and self-worship.

People don't want to have kids because they think it goes against self-worship and they've been trained to fear how it will accelerate the world ending. With all that and pro-abortion propaganda, birth rates have tanked.

I see a lot of modern leftist policy really being a rebranding of the eugenics movement popular in the early to mid-20th century. We all thought they went away, but they just got a better PR team.

True, but they're only a small part of the picture.

Poor or lower-middleclass people in Third World countries can't afford either legal or illegal migration, absent cash inducements

David Ricardo observed in the early 1800s that most people did not settle down and have children until they had achieved the same level of financial security that their parents enjoyed at the same age.

Newsflash - human nature hasn't changed a jot.

Declining living standards and declining financial security lead to declining birth rates.

The Left gaslights us that this is the result of investment in education, as though overinvestment in credentials wasn't also a response to declining living standards and increasingly desperate competition.

The Right gaslights us that declining birth rates are the result of declines in "traditional" social roles. If 1950s social roles were still delivering 1950s results, then more 2020s men and women would follow them. But they are not.

Both wings of the Establishment want to "solve" the problem by luring other people's children to migrate here, bringing their family's capital, on the false promise of 1950s living standards; and at the cost of not just inflated credential tuition but the loss of their hard-earned understanding of how (their) society works, their native language, and too often their own hopes of timely marriage and children.

The Great replacement is obviously real, but I have to say if white people suicide themselves out of existence because they were too busy playing video games and being dog moms then it will have been entirely their own fault.

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Coinbase didn't get hacked.

Coinbase employees sold customer data on the black market.

That's not even social engineering.

#Bitcoin

I think it landed

No one oppresses you.

All oppression happens in your mind.

buckmason.com polos are solid.

"Wine Tannins give me Massive Headaches"🍷

As a low-intervention winemaker, that one caught me off guard.

I’ve heard people blame sugar, sulfites, even histamines. But tannins? Let’s talk about what they are—and what they’re not. 🧵

Tannins are natural compounds found in grape skins, seeds, stems, and oak barrels.

They aren’t about flavor—they’re about texture.

They’re much more present in red and orange wines than in whites or rosés, since those wines stay in contact with skins, seeds, stems, and oak barrels much longer.

I often hear people say a wine is dry, referring to that mouth-drying sensation you get from certain wines.

However, when a wine is dry, that means it isn’t sweet.

People who describe highly tannic wines this way aren't totally wrong because tannins bind to your saliva and do leave your mouth feeling dried out.

While a lot of the tannins in red wine do come from the grapes of oak barrel, then can also be added during winemaking—usually in powder form.

Most of these powders are derived from natural sources like oak or grape skins, and can support structure, aroma, and color without changing the identity of the wine.

I use oak-derived tannins in some of my wines, especially since I age in neutral barrels.

This helps me use less sulfur in my winemaking.

Tannins act more like a protective coating that helps show off the wine’s natural brilliance—not a tool for manipulation.

Most wine additives are used as part of a manipulation regime—designed to hit a target flavor profile, often at the expense of transparency.

And with over 70 approved additives that don’t have to be listed on a wine label, the real culprit behind your wine headache could be anything.

Tannins are different.

There is some nuance.

Hydrolyzable tannins like gallotannins (from oak galls or chestnut wood)—have been linked to mild inflammation or histamine release in sensitive individuals.

But they’re typically used in small amounts and are far less likely to be the issue than residual sugar, poor fermentation, or a cocktail of other additives.

Tannins aren’t usually the problem. The winemaking style might be.

Wine is complicated and often swept into a shroud of mystery to keep consumers in the dark.

But knowing a little can change a lot.

I’ll be sharing more about how to navigate additives, labels, and wine in general.

If this gave you value, please like or retweet that first post.

Minibits has become unusable for zapping.

Any recommendations that aren't Strike, Primal, Zeus, or Alby? (Sending and receiving)

Most Americans are individualists and rebellious at the core. They value family, entrepreneurship, their property and money.

They value choice and open markets. American retail heavily invests and holds bitcoin. With a party already in decline, how can Dems not see this?

Ro Khanna gets this, and I truly believe he’s one of the only ones.