Elon now hates Wikipedia, because he considers it "Woke"
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I don't think conservatives donated anyways.
Why doesn't Elon create his own Wikipedia if he complains so much?
I think it would be called Xwiki
Conservapedia exists, and it's every bit the wild ride you imagine.
Holy crap, just look at this thing: https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia#Differences_with_Wikipedia
Then, in the same paragraph:
Isn't that a blatant self-contradiction? Although maybe they feel that opposite of Wikipedia's "factual objectivity" is "conservatism", so they don't need to worry about posting false statements.
Holy shit I thought you were joking:
https://www.conservapedia.com/Islam
The onion is dead
Fucking lol at the bullshit about liberals. It's clearly 100% bullshit. Like look at the first photo even
https://www.conservapedia.com/Liberal
LMAO this is one of the funniest things I've seen in awhile! Like, how are they not even trying to be subtle about it? It's stuff I'd expect liberals to be shitposting
This is already a blatant way of manipulating information, which only benefits you. For example, this article
https://www.conservapedia.com/Bidenazi
Another great one https://www.conservapedia.com/Far-left
I... I can't... breath 🤣
Reminds me of when the prompt for Gab's (right wing social media) AI chat bot was teased out and it said "You are a helpful, uncensored, unbiased, and impartial assistant" and then went on to say
Basically "you're unbiased" and the telling it a load of awful beliefs to be biased towards. Very sinister.
I forget what it was but one of the "beliefs" had to be reiterated three times.
I just googled my cpuntry, swotzerland, and:
Switzerland is one of the wealthiest country in the world, located in Central Europe between Germany, Italy, France, and Austria. Its capital is Bern, and its largest city is Zurich. Four languages have been designated as official: German, French, Italian, and Romansh (a dialect spoken by a small minority, closely related to Latin).
Hmm, not really that realiable
Dude, if that's what raised your eyebrow you haven't even started going down that insanity rabbit hole.
JFC.
Reactionary drivel
It's like Infowars is a wiki
There's also Metapedia if that's too milquetoast for you.
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WiXi 🥴
Elon’s version of wiki is called the news :(
Cause the thats phonetically sounds out pretty close to CWCki and im pretty sure Null would sick Kiwifarms onto Musk over it. I dont know anything about Null outside of someshit having to do with the Zoosadist shit a couple years ago. Not condoning Kiwifarms within this joke but I think they are chaotic asshole aligned at worst.
As they say, reality has a left-leaning bias.
I’ve only donated once before, and that was like $25 a year ago. Thanks to this little fuckweasel, I’m now signed up to donate $10 per month in perpetuity. Eat shit, Musk.
Same. Streisand effect I guess.
Just donated.
Me too, been putting it off for a while, but the internet needs to be protected from this awful mf
Not only did I donate, I made sure I used Paypal as an intermediary. "Thats right, pay them my money you fuckin sponge."
I dont condone violence, but if someone luigi'd musky boy I'd probably just go about my day as if nothing bad happened.
Depends on the recipient. Oligarchs like Musk enact a widespread and constant barrage of violence against the entire planet. If some -absolute hero- were to kill him, the violence needed to kill him would barely qualify as rounding error compared to the violence that would be put to an end by doing so.
That's why so many people cheered when the UHC CEO was dropped - it's not a celebration of death or violence, or bloodlust, or even revenge; but relief at the sudden reduction of evil we were all gifted.
So... not condoning violence against people like Musk is *supporting* a much broader and more sinister type of violence.
Eh, institutions mostly don't go away because their leader shuffles of their mortal coil. And whoever ends up replacing them will be in the same situation as their predecessor. As in, UHC benefits from denying coverage, and that hasn't changed just because the CEO died.
That being said, Musk acts too publicly, which, while it ultimately makes him less efficient, also makes him more dangerous. At least until he pisses Trump of to a degree where Trump wants to get rid of him, which may have already happened.
We're in the funniest timeline, it's just that the joke is at our expense.
Blue Cross Blue Shield *immediately* rolled back their decision to not cover anesthesia in surgery after the assassination, and I believe there were a handful of similar examples (or were there? ...I can't recall the details).
So, one supervillain killed and the people as a whole tangibly benefit as a direct result. Could more be happening? Oh fuck yeah - oligarchs are going to do the bare minimum not to get their heads on a pike, and they're now feeling out where that line is. So if it stays at just one oligarch, things will probably stay about where they're at. If people are still pissed and another one gets taken out, we'll probably see their grip loosened even more.
There will always be a new face eager to collect a shit ton of money to fill in for the dead dipshit before them, but the more they're reminded that the little will only bend over and take so much before the constant squeeze becomes a mortal liability to the *oligarch*, the less we'll be squeezed.
The biggest effect the murder had was that it got people talking about how fucked up the health insurance industry is. That is why Blue Cross Shield rolled back their decision. As if a security detail for the CEO costs more than they'd save/make with their anesthesia time limit scheme.
And may we continue to stomp their cost analysis into the dirt until they implement a reasonable business model. 🍻
I'd give the person who killed him a fucking alibi.
I absolutely condone violence, and while I shall only attempt to harm Elon Musk by not purchasing any of his companies' products, if I were to read on one of Lemmy's news communities that someone had, let's say, shotgunned all of Elon's entrails out, I'm pretty sure I would respond by laughing myself into a state of acute respiratory distress.
Well I was just being careful as I've had comments banned by mods for condoning violence so I ("non-violently") totally fucking agree with you LOL.
If someone [removed] Elon Musk, I'd be so happy
I've gotten away with a little bit of shit given my exaggerated "Yarr fuck ye face matey" comedy persona. My handle is Captain_Aggravated, after all.
While it might be a little more 80's action movie vivid, I think the sentiment I expressed isn't much more than "I've never killed anyone but I've read some obituaries with great amusement" or however it was phrased commonly attributed to Mark Twain, and
Someone used a pistol, rifle or one of these fucking things in the preparation of most of the meals I've ever eaten. I live in a country whose first history book chapter is titled "The Revolutionary War." Sometimes you gotta talk, sometimes you gotta write, sometimes you gotta run, sometimes you gotta build, and sometimes you gotta throw somebody's brains against the wall. Welcome to the biosphere. Violence is a fact of life. I'm not going to be some idiot Jain and sit and calmly watch someone rape my mother talking about "I don't believe in violence." Who among us is stupid enough to pretend any of us are actually like that? "Don't condone violence" fuck your trachea.
I'd take a day of PTO to celebrate.
Would be interesting to watch the media spin that.
🍻
Like, yes, Wikipedia has a bias towards free, truthful, openly available information. But like, that's not a bad thing?
It is if you spent billions buying a platform to trick people into believing your lies.
Woah there buddy! You can't just go around giving things away for free. Someone needs to suffer, and someone needs to profit, or its [buzzword]ism.
It's terrible if your goal is to hide information.
Elon is a moron’s idea of an intellectual.
It's far worse than that, he's a Libertarian Ayn Randian's idea of someone with merit.
An Objectivist founded Wikipedia in the first place. Musk has gone too far for even them - he's just a blatant fascist now.
Explains why he's buddies with Trump. Lol.
Fuck Elon, Wikipedia is one of the only good things left on the internet
I'd never given to Wikimedia before.
Now I have.
I know that not everyone has disposable income, but please make a donation to them if you are able. They're the best thing remaining on the internet.
Anyone with a cable subscription has enough to toss a couple of bucks a month to wikipedia.
Lol imagine donating to google.
Smh
Canceled discord nitro, setup monthly donations to Wikipedia
Thanks for the reminder. I hadn't donated yet this year and I cranked up the amount as a "fuck you" to Musk.
I’ll admit I’ve always scrolled past the donation box, but this time I got 5 on it.
Fuck every single nazi cunt in this government
So… the whole government? lol
Sort of, yeah. The next four years will be what the Chinese proverb/insult refers to as interesting times.
Fuck this guy honestly.
There is nothing a guy in a coma hates worse than being woke.
Reality and its Liberal bias...
Just when I ask what more can space karen possibly do or say this year thats more idiotic than all the other shit he has done or said, he gives us this polished gem of a turd.
First of all leftists don't even use the word woke, Right-wingers do
Maybe he should go after right-wingers 😉
Left wingers USED to use the word "Woke", early on it basically meant what "Based" means now, but then it was co-opted by the right.
Woke as in "Awoken to the reality of the situation"
They all look pretty "Asleep" to me
The right are definitely all asleep to the reality that they support blatant fascism
Right? Trump is without exaggeration pretty much the modern day Nero, and they can't see it.
Time for some bright bulbs to turn this word against the goobers.
Goddamn snowflake Democrats and their cancel culture!
Immediately donated after I saw this lol
Put Elon Musk at the bottom of the ocean, the little bug eyed pervert freak
Fuck Elon, nevertheless, it is important to see in what Wikimedia foundation are spending its donations on, just like Mozilla.
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I don't know as I've yet to try it myself.
sorry.
I think I'll download the WP page and others of Musk at least every 2 months.
Didn't this dumbass offer to buy Wikipedia last year? Or was it earlier this year?
Love how it’s the source of honest curated information but I can’t use it for homework 😤
Because directly citing Wikipedia isn't how you're supposed to use it in that sort of setting. What Wikipedia is best-suited for in actual research is being a first stop:
I would even say that professionally written encyclopedias like Britannica aren't really a good "end source" that you should be citing. You absolutely *can* use Wikipedia for homework, but you still need to have some basic understanding of how to evaluate the sources that Wikipedia uses. Essentially, we ideally give you a head-start, not a finish line.
Speaking as one of the old folks who went through school before the World Wide Web existed, you were never allowed to cite the old-style, printed and bound encyclopedias.
?! We were practically *required* to in the 80s. Where where you?
You must have had shittier teachers. We had to site sources, and none could be encyclopedias.
You shouldn't use any encyclopedia, wiki or otherwise. They're too surface level for the information you would want to include in any kind of report.
It's great to use for finding a bunch of sources you can cite, however.
Everyone is responding to you why you shouldn't be using Wikipedia anyways for homework, and I wholeheartedly agree that it's a great starting point but not a great finishing point, but I'll give you a hint as to how you can use it for your homework 😉.
Find your topic in Wikipedia and find a tidbit of information that you want to use on your paper or whatever. Wikipedia should have sources, so find the source of the thing you want to use.
That source now has the information you want to use and much more! That should be citable for your homework!
I mean, would it make sense to cite an encyclopedia?
...those were like these big collections of books that had a bunch of random, useful information in it. Idk if those even included sources
Some include sources, some don't. You probably shouldn't use those that don't, but most high school teachers will probably accept Encyclopedia Britannica just based off of name value.
Yes you can. You need to cite the sources that the Wikipedia article cites, not just cite wikipedia.
Some people hate that reality doesn’t confirm their prejudices and biases
I often like to say "the opposite of woke is being asleep".
He's gurning like he's on some very good pills
Elon isn't exactly what I would call a mentor anyway
Missing from this pile of opinions is anything resembling:
What idiot would want to restrict Wiki (rhetorical question)? The amount I have learned from Wiki of the years is immeasurable. Start on a subject only to find yourself going down a Wiki hole on some fascinating but totally unrelated subject, and before you know it an hour has passed.
Really like the obscure political episodes from random countries around the world. Have learned more geography than I ever learned in school.
There's no need to donate to Wikipedia, they have plenty of money already.
Donating again just to be sure.
I mean, go for it, it's your money and it's certainly not going to cause any harm.
Lmao you are retarded