My brother and I were, like, 7 and 10, respectively, when we played this. Some things on the list were obvious, others (the heck is a "slalom"?!) we had to guess just by doing every possible thing you could do with a car. A couple day's work, bada-bing bada-boom.
People definitely would've given up nowadays.
They likely don't have brands and the ingredients are open source. They probably just have "cola" entry and then you can tweak the ingredients amount, with predefined templates, named by the author. By default it just gives you the most popular version, I suppose.
I share your doubts regarding his financial wellbeing, which is why I included the question mark in braces. But the main point is that he's perceived as rich by those people.
But he's a rich(?) fat old rapist and orange loser.
What is this about even? What kind of install requires calls?
Yeah, Nexus phones were great, but Pixel phones are also good. And Android is definitely not "getting worse".
Agree with the rest though.
If I wasn't dead, I would hate being a person in Middle English era either way.
But thanks for the interesting article.
In my experience, these mistakes are made primarily by native speakers. Because they learned it by hearing and can't tell the difference. Those who learned English as a second language learn through books and are explicitly taught the difference.
On Reddit I always assumed that so many people can't be that ~~stupid~~ uneducated and make these obvious mistakes for engagement bait.
But now that we are on Lemmy, and engagement gets you nowhere, I'm losing faith in humanity at a faster pace.
It's a possibility, if they really wanna play the game. Nowadays we are so spoiled for choice that we would just either switch to another game or pick up the phone.