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Why do I get so many ads on Youtube but daughter doesn’t ? ( vanity )

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**Spent 3 Weeks in Hospital and Noticed Something Strange About YouTube Ads**

*Posted on 11/06/25 by sushiman*

I just spent three weeks in the hospital here in Japan. During that time, I borrowed my daughter’s Windows 11 laptop to use. At home, I have Windows 10 installed on my PC.

Right away, I noticed something strange: there were absolutely zero ads when I watched videos on YouTube using her laptop. On my own PC, when I watch YouTube, ads start as soon as I click on a video and often interrupt the video during playback.

Curious, I asked my daughter if she had an ad blocker installed. She said she never watches YouTube and didn’t know anything about ad blockers.

What the heck could be the reason?

I’m a computer dummy, so please pardon my lack of knowledge regarding computers.

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**Reply from Morgana:**

Your daughter installed an ad blocker!

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*TOPICS: Computers / Internet*

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Alabama ‘porch pirate’ suspect, dressed as woman, arrested [photo – yikes]

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**Alabama ‘Porch Pirate’ Suspect, Dressed as Woman, Arrested**

*Posted on October 31, 2025 by Theresa Grundman | News Nation Now*

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A man suspected of stealing packages from porches in Mobile, Alabama, and Mississippi has been arrested, according to the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO).

Deputies reported that at around 1 a.m. on Friday, they observed a black Ford Escape driving at a high rate of speed near the Boe Road extension and Spanish Trail. Upon stopping the vehicle, the driver—identified as Todd Anthony Bond—was found with several packages in the car. These packages matched descriptions of items recently stolen from other residents’ properties.

Bond, a 46-year-old resident of Jackson, Mississippi, was arrested and charged with first-degree theft of property.

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Woman arrested six years after fatal stabbing in SE Albuquerque [mug shot…t-shirt]

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**Woman Arrested Six Years After Fatal Stabbing in Southeast Albuquerque**

*By Nakayla McClelland | ABQ Journal | November 1, 2025*

A woman is behind bars six years after she allegedly stabbed a man to death at a home in Southeast Albuquerque.

Antionette Hernandez, 29, was arrested Thursday and charged with an open count of murder and criminal trespass in the 2019 killing of 38-year-old Eric Lewis. Hernandez does not yet have an attorney.

Lewis’ stabbing went unsolved for six years after the detective on the case was promoted to sergeant, according to court records. The case was later assigned to an investigator for review before being transferred to a homicide detective in April 2025.

Prosecutors filed a motion on Friday to keep Hernandez behind bars until trial, citing that she “exhibited violent and dangerous behavior that threatens the safety of the community.”

“The Court will be unable to ensure that the Defendant is not possessing knives, and not threatening, or hurting more innocent people,” the motion states.

Police were conducting a patrol on September 27, 2019, of condemned houses in Southeast Albuquerque to ensure that no one was living inside them, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. Around 11:30 a.m., officers entered a condemned home in the 400 block of Utah SE, south of Zuni, and noticed “a wad of hair on the floor and a strange smell,” the complaint says.

Officers saw bloody shoe prints throughout the kitchen floor and found Lewis’ body. An autopsy later determined that Lewis had been fatally stabbed.

The investigation remained cold until recent developments led to Hernandez’s arrest.

[Read more at abqjournal.com]

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Just finished a long AI5 design review with the Tesla California and Texas chip engineers. It’s going to be great.

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X ^ | 11/01/2025 | El

It’s going to be great. AI6 and AI7 will follow in fast succession, and AI8 will be out of this world.

(Excerpt) Read more at x.com.

**Topics:** News / Current Events
**Keywords:** Musk

Musk is really going full speed.

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Democrat Senator Dick Durbin compares ICE to Japanese internment camps

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**Democrat Senator Dick Durbin Compares ICE to Japanese Internment Camps**

*Posted on 10/27/2025 by DFG*

Democrat Senator Dick Durbin recently drew a controversial comparison between ICE and the Japanese internment camps during World War II. Durbin stated, “There’s only one parallel in history: the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII.”

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**Topics:** Politics

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To: DFG
Somehow the 3 million deportations under Obama are conveniently forgotten. Oh, and which party did FDR belong to again?

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Florida man learns his fate after murdering his 9-months pregnant secret lover who refused to get abortion

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**Florida Man Sentenced to Death for Murdering His 9-Months Pregnant Secret Lover Who Refused Abortion**

*By Lauren Acton-Taylor | Daily Mail UK | October 15, 2025*

A Florida man was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his 9-months pregnant secret lover just days before she was due to give birth.

Jose Soto-Escalera, 49, was convicted in 2018 for the murders of 23-year-old Tania Wise and their unborn son. On Friday, Judge Lawrence Mirman handed down the death sentence after Soto-Escalera was found guilty on two counts of first-degree murder.

Tania Wise was just one week away from delivering what would have been her second child, Josiah, when she was killed. Reports indicate that the murder followed her refusal to obtain an abortion. Her body was discovered in a roadside ditch on August 24, 2018, with severe injuries, including a bashed-in head and a slit throat.

The jury voted 8-4 in favor of the death penalty, a decision that Judge Mirman later endorsed.

During the sentencing, Soto-Escalera’s attorney, Tom Burns, highlighted his difficult childhood and experiences of being bullied. Burns urged the court to consider life imprisonment instead, citing Soto-Escalera’s good behavior while incarcerated, according to Law & Crime.

However, Judge Mirman emphasized that the aggravating factors related to the murders—especially the death of the unborn child—outweighed any mitigating circumstances such as his good conduct and troubled past.

Lead prosecutor Assistant State Attorney Donald Richardson told Treasure Coast Newspapers that the evidence against Soto-Escalera was “conclusive” and that “there was no question as to his guilt.” He also described the case as “so egregious” that he was not surprised by the jury’s decision. “The facts were truly extreme,” Richardson added.

Expressing her feelings on the verdict, Tania Wise’s mother, Elizabeth Bedolla, told the outlet, “I’m not going to say that I am super happy because it doesn’t change anything. But justice needed to be done.”

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*Keywords: abortion, Florida, pro-life, Jose Soto-Escalera*

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