The Glade 4.0

So this evening YouTube just arbitrarily decided that I'm arabic:



I have no idea. And the really spooky part is that I have both my youtube viewing and search history suspended. It just decided to do this for no reason whatsoever.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Prepare for your forthcoming extraordinary rendition.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

I've just reported you to the NSA as a potential terrorist. Merry Christmas.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Rather than post something offensive like "Enjoy your 70 virgins Haji, the drone is on the way" I'll ask have you tried to resolve that with YouTube yet?

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Is the 2nd video on the right the Arabic version of Family Guy? Peter Al-ahwadaistanic? Cause that show is HILARIOUS.

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Hasa Llama Bacon

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

I just purged all *.youtube.com cookies and logged back in. That sorted it out, but I don't know specifically which errant bit got flipped since I took the shotgun approach. It didn't just affect the recommended video feed, either. The UI itself was in English, but other odd bits -- like all of the description text for Google Rewind -- were in Arabic, too.

My best guess is that they had some bad info temporarily slip in to their geoIP database. But if that was the case, it's odd that id didn't change my UI language. i don't know; there's a lot of weird things about my main YouTube account. For instance, it seems to be permanently stuck on the old YouTube layout. A lot of people would kill for that problem, but I'm not that particular about the layout, so it's actually kind of annoying.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

It's Salami Eggs and Bacon. Didn't you watch Boondocks?

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

No, it's "A Salami, I like 'em." Didn't you watch Oz?

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Allah Haxbar?

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

Sell your YouTube account on eBay?

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"