Inertia mostly, people are lazy. If they’re family or friends, install uBlock origin for them and they’ll probably thank you. You can, as an alternative, ask them to use brave browser instead (after disabling the annoyances), it’s chromium-based so the functionality is identical plus it blocks ads.

If it’s android, they’ll mostly use the app. If you want to get them to use NewPipe or Grayjay, tell them it can play audio when you close the app without having to pay for YouTube premium (yes that’s a thing)

If they’re not friends or family, forget about it. You can give a light suggestion I guess.

You’re on point, imo

Yeah, people on the internet usually don’t double check or give a lot of time to things, often taking Twitter screenshots and article headlines at face value. I often find myself doing this too. Everyone doesn’t have the free time to factcheck everything they see, and we are especially vulnerable to having our brain fill the gaps with biases.

Saying “Idk man” and moving on is the best strategy for these cases. Second best is probably digging through the internet for clues like some deranged idiot.

Plus, he wants us to react to him. Doesn’t matter if the reaction is positive or negative. Don’t feed the troll and all.

Watched it, loved it. Thanks for the rec.

Was this the movie which prompted the mythbusters episode where they tried to see if a bullet’s path could be curved by swinging the barrel really fast? Immediately reminded me of that lol

I checked all of his twitter posts from 2025/11/21 till today (bad idea, please don’t do the same), and didn’t find this particular tweet.

I tried the wayback machine, but his twitter page hadn’t been crawled in or after November.

I dug a bit more with DuckDuckGo, out of the 6 or 7 webpages I checked, most of them didn’t question its validity.

One of those pages^[1] confidently claimed that it was a real post which had some user interaction before it was deleted. The page even mentioned a username, which stood out to me:

Now I wondered if I could verify whether the post was real by finding this user named “Biscuits” and checking his activity throughout November. I have no idea how Twitter works, but I was hoping to find an old reply to the original tweet. There was one prominent user named Biscuit on xcancel. However, I couldn’t find any replies or mentions to Andrew Tate^[2]

TLDR: Idk man, maybe not?

I don’t agree with you, but I think it’d be pretty rad if dark matter was GHOSTS.

I’ve only played the OG Super Mario Bros on an emulator, and it was pretty fun imo. Short and sweet.

Haven’t played anything else

I mean yeah, you are biotic, unless you’re an LLM or something

That is the coolest history fact I’ve learned in months. Thank you!

original with more pixels

Disclaimer: he was most likely not actually masturbating in his final moments. A more probable explanation is that the hot pyroclastic flow from Mt. Vesuvius forcefully contracted his muscles, leaving him in that state.

Propped up by the global hardware distribution of capitalists, Linux (capitalist companies have made major contributions to linux, and still do), and the internet (distributed under a capitalist model)

The creator’s ideology does not matter

So no alternative explanation? You should at least point me to some resources that say otherwise.

I fully acknowledge the wild ecological harm and rising inequality that capitalism has brought with it. However, even Marx had written about the system’s capacity for the advancement of industrial technology and productivity.

Centrally planned economies like the ones of the USSR and similar 21st century socialist states do not work. They would never have enabled the vast distribution and rapid development of technology like we see today. Lemmy itself is a product of capitalism.

The technological advancements were in large part due to the large scale growth of industry under capitalism. Although lots of bloodshed and suffering was involved in the process, and without leftists fighting for reforms, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy its fruits today.

The mass availability of the internet, and many other pillars of infrastructure are a result of capitalism. And these developments definitely have increased living standards for the majority of humans, even ones in third world nations (The popular image of a destitute country with rampant poverty is extremely rare these days.)

There’s also a fried chicken stereotype for African Americans. I think it had some historic context too.

Racists are weird, never mind.

Life finds a way

What’s the movie/show?

Huh. I should check again

It doesn’t work for me on SwayWM, maybe KDE does something else under the hood?

Edit: lol Sorry, I mistook xrandr for brightnessctl. (I had aliased xrandr brightness change commands to “brightness” in my shell)

brightnessctl doesn’t work with Wayland