minimum

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[–] minimum@mander.xyz 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] minimum@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

You're on point, imo

[–] minimum@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] minimum@mander.xyz 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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]

[^1]: Link to page WARNING: Use an adblock or filter like Ublock origin

[^2]: Link to xcancel.com, with Biscuits's activity on November

TLDR: Idk man, maybe not?

[–] minimum@mander.xyz 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] minimum@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] minimum@mander.xyz 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] minimum@mander.xyz 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

 

It's literally just someone else's computer! I find so many people believing it's some sort of ethereal space where data is arranged neatly by advanced druid magic or some shit -- solely because it's called "The cloud"

[–] minimum@mander.xyz 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] minimum@mander.xyz 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] minimum@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

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

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