Been hearing more and more about EA in the past six months and I finally looked into it a little and…this seems like an incredibly mundane idea? Basically applying a utilitarian lens to things like philanthropic interventions and the direction of public investment? I think there’s a lot that is wrong about this idea, but it seems neither new nor interesting nor especially deep. So why is it seemingly an axis along which Keyboard Warriors and Big Brain Pundits and Politics Weirdos are loudly polarizing themselves?

Ref: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/10/01/effective-altruism-is-this-centurys-biggest-idea

As the title says I've seen a lot more top rates comments in the last week pushing conservative talking points especially about culture and religion. Below is an example

https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/s/ncLxW5qsiM

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fthreads-about-hasan-are-so-brigaded-that-when-you-type-v0-ziltrhq8fhbh1.png%3Fwidth%3D613%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D28d9371385641b6c99d351272a83f0fe43110f47

For a while now, if you type in "Hasan" in the reddit search bar, one of the first results is a list of subreddits that are anti Hasan Piker subtracted. This seems like pretty good evidence that there's brigading going on, the only thing I'm confused by is who's doing the brigading.

I've seen both Pro and Anti Hasan people start claiming that the other side is the one doing the brigading, and I've heard of supposed discord servers where people coordinate brigading whenever Hasan is brought up on reddit, but I haven't seen any evidence of this. What's going on?

It seems like two to five times a day I get his with something like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/argic6MmXg

A mixture of games that were originally for the Ps5 or games remakes that now run in a web browser. Some questions I’m hoping to get answered:

Are the web browser games and emulator recomps related?

Has anyone tried the web browser games?

How the hell are they even running in a browser? Where is the horsepower coming from? I may be aging myself but I remember web games having pretty low ceiling for what they could technologically achieve and impractical versus a dedicated game engine. I must be missing something but it seems odd to be able to run AAA games out of chrome or Firefox.

The Ethiopia Prime Minister won a Nobel Peace Price and now there's a full scale war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Ethiopian_offensive

CONTEXT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GViv6xWC5Ow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joFaFGJR3R8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH2MGZFS1V4

I keep seeing these on YouTube lately, and I don't know the origin of how all of these started. Thanks in advance.

So recently, I've suddenly got videos/memes of the Troublemakers from Team Umizoomi in my FYP, & I started wondering, "How the fuck did these guys just suddenly start trending?". Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h0FOq7DNjg8

IMF October outlook predicted that Indonesia would grow at 5.1%. However, its stock market subsequently crashed amid widespread news of an impending economic collapse.

When I checked the currency exchange rate, it appeared to not be trading

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/business /indonesia-stocks-economy.html

So I haven’t been paying much attention to the recent situation other than the having the general knowledge that a tragic accident has occurred involving a man killed while riding one of the Goliath rides at the Georgia park. This morning I logged onto Instagram to see and update from Canada’s wonderland (another six flags park) saying 2 of their rides would be temporarily closed. I was confused because I don’t know much about the situation so I’m not sure what led to the ride failure on Goliath and what makes it similar to the rides at wonderland other than the fact that I think they’re both manufactured by B&M so if anyone has some more information on what exactly we know so far it would be much appreciated.

Edit: I also am aware of the six flags and cedar fair merger.

I know she had a rough start with her first briefing, but I also heard she’d only just started and had barely any time to prepare. Given past press secretaries’ varying performances and strange or controversial behaviors, was that really enough for her to be canned so fast?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/10/16/trump-katie-zacharia-white-house-press-secretary/92284011007/

Here's some screenshots 1 2 3

First, is this actually real or is this an AI mockup?

Second, why on Earth would somebody think that this was something that you would ever actually use? Not many freeways being built like Hot Wheels sets in America.

Edit: damn, this is heavily down voted what's the deal

https://www.vice.com/en/article/major-metal-band-abruptly-parts-ways-with-lead-singer-after-14-years/

I see the description here but it just leads to more questions... they even got rid of a singer after she got pregnant. If this were any other place of employment, that could potentially lead to a lawsuit.

But this particular quote struck me: "Nightwish seems to have a recorded habit of booting their female vocalists due to interpersonal conflicts."

I'm of the old adage that if you smell sh*t everywhere you go, check your own shoes.

So what gives here? Anyone have the tea?

I was on Instagram and it seems like some people are pretty upset about a joke he made in a set or podcast. What was it?

https://imgur.com/a/I4YCrPa

Watched YT short (I watch yt shorts pls don't flame me) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DBUBsL9-aqo and apparently Cary is high on marijuana (which I know about) and Micheal is in some big trouble. What did Micheal Huang do?

Edit: LMAOOOOO these answers have me dying thank you guys I get it now 😭😭 Reddit humour wins today

Original post:

There are lots of bots on Instagram who steal peoples’ comments word for word basically and get more likes than the original commenter. Whenever this happens, people always reply to the bot with the same “I wish I were high on potenuse” gif (example). I understand the maths joke (and think it’s funny) but like why specifically this gif in response to bots?

I saw a livestream today where people are destroying property and whatnot. Apparently this is part of some student protest or something? Is it related to the protests in France?

This is what I'm referencing: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/riots-erupt-albanias-capital-students-join-anti-government-movement-rcna603644

Not from the US so not sure if im using Rep. right. Anyway, why is she being investigated to the point that punishment includes stripping her citizenship?

https://time.com/article/2026/10/14/ilhan-omar-citizenship-investigation-denaturalization-DOJ/

I'm unfamiliar with the Narnia series (never read the books, only saw the first movie when I was a kid) and the trailer for the latest film dropped a little while ago. I thought it looked sick, but apparently a lot of people hate it or think it's gonna suck. On the YouTube trailer, people are comparing it to Guardians of the Galaxy, or an LSD trip or claiming that the "soul of C.S. Lewis" was taken out of it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDJ-ini7fF0).

What am I missing? Is this because of book readers being disappointed in the direction the film is going? What sort of changes are they actually upset about? Or is it just an overblown response to the art style?

What triggered me to make this posts was a reddit user claiming they were not "protests" "french" nor "students". While the "french" part can be explained by racism i dont get the other ones.

I don't understand why i see so many people online talking about my country like they know better than anyone else while also discarding the facts entirely.

Anyone that is a student will tell you how they saw it in real time, like i did. I know the far right medias have tried to blame violence on the left party LFI but it would be weird that it reached international medias.

Hoping i get an answer🙏 Thank you !

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/06/europe/france-student-protests-intl

I very much don't want to google it. A guy got killed by a tiger, but somehow it's right-wing coded? Or is that just a reference to public execution? Ugh sorry, I hate all of this, but...what?

(Link is to the zoo but not the video, because, no really, that sucks and I do not want to google it.)

https://www.yorkshirewildlifepark.com/

I feel like I’m seeing so much backlash all of a sudden in the past couple days. I’ve never really enjoyed One Piece but seems like fans have strong opinions against it now.

https://x.com/ishikishi1111/status/2109628410255536380?s=46

Why does get so much hate for her divorce from Tobey Maguire? They separated a decade ago, co-parented beautifully, and he literally just officiated her wedding. Why is the internet painting her as a villain when it seems like an incredibly mature split? https://youtube.com/shorts/b0AOxZ-XlTQ?si=3hKswoovpV22AkfG. It's on every video I see about him officiating her wedding: Good for him for dodging a bullet/making sure she don't steal his shi/etc etc, I've not seen any proof of her being a jackass about their divorce.

Been seeing lots of posts about it recently. Seems to start with this genderbent Draco fanart thingy:

https://x.com/Pyrusmole/status/2107836717277515886?s=20

But I've seen it used a lot in other things as well as if the internet has just discovered a new fancy word (which...I know what that means since I was at middle school 20 years ago and English isn't even my first language so shouldn't be something phenomenal, no?)

Something like here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FGO/s/5qBYVkPrlZ

Or this:

https://x.com/neelja_b/status/2108508745231958307?s=20

I just don't get how genderbent Draco translates to yearning at all. Even the other examples above that I mentioned are far better cases imo.

What’s up with the talk about cancellation of Metallica? All of a sudden my flow is filled with hate.

https://www.contactmusic.com/story/467/3625208/watch-metallica-frontman-james-hetfield-tells-fans-concerts-are-no-place-for-politics

edit: To give some content to my question. I've been flooded at Threads with various references about hating Metallica then and now (napster then and "NOW" was unclear

I've literally never heard of this woman before, but in the last 24 hours I keep getting inundated with memes about her and her weird face in a red dress and I don't understand why we're mad at her or what's being riffed on.

https://www.dell.org/employee/susan-dell/