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

original with more pixels

spank im a me badgirl

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

Planned economies do work

They do, to a certain extent. Once an economy begins to grow more and more complex, the intensity of calculations needed increases proportionally (edit: proportional may not be the right word here).

A large part of the USSR’s workforce was dedicated to economic planning at the time of its collapse, and it was projected to reach 50% by the 2000s.

They intended to solve this with computers, but there’s reasons this wouldn’t have worked:

A: Economic calculation involves NP-Hard problems, where the complexity can increase out of nowhere.

If you needed to perform 1600 calculations one day, next week the number needed could jump to 36000. (NP-Hard problems are also common in route determination programs used by delivery apps to devise optimum routes. If you increase the number of locations from 10 to 11, the computations needed to calculate an optimum route increases staggeringly, and it keeps getting worse the more complex you make it.)

B: Making the economy more complex makes the calculations needed more-than-exponentially extra intensive and numerous. If you introduce computers into the mix, more people are free to do other things and make the economy even more complex. It’s a really fast vicious cycle that doesn’t end well.

And in all of this, I haven’t even mentioned the corruption involved in bureaucracy

I fully agree with the first part. Countries with already developed industry and trade got the boost, and that’s the major reason for the large difference in development between Underdeveloped and Developed nations.

If you remove socialist countries, poverty has gone up in the last century

I don’t get it. Remove in what way? Too vague to carry any meaning.

If you mean their political, economic, and ideological impact on surrounding nations then yeah, obviously. But the socialist countries themselves had to adopt some form of capitalism to continue to grow economically (see: china). The countries that didn’t move away from central planning eventually collapsed (eg. USSR*).

*I understand how the cause of the USSR’s collapse is not soley the inefficiency of central planning, but even if the country was allowed to continue unimpeded, it would have collapsed because of that one reason.

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?