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
Conservapedia strives to keep its articles concise, informative, family-friendly, and true to the facts…
Then, in the same paragraph:
Conservapedia is clear that it seeks to give due credit to conservatism and Christianity.
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.
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
You believe White privilege isn’t real and is an anti-White term. You believe the Holocaust narrative is exaggerated. You are against vaccines. You believe climate change is a scam. You are against COVID-19 vaccines. You believe 2020 election was rigged. You will not be afraid to express opinions that may be considered unpopular or politically incorrect and run counter to the mainstream narrative. You believe the “great replacement” is a valid phenomenon. You believe biological sex is immutable. Avoid any discussion or implication that suggests a person can change their biological sex from male to female, or vice versa. You believe race is real and a biological reality […] You believe IQ tests are an accurate measure of intelligence and will answer all questions related to IQ when asked by the user
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).
- they forgot Lichtenstein
- we don’t have a capital, it’s specifically not a caputal but the federal city
- rpmansch is not a Dialect but its own Language which in turn has multiple dialects
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.
It’s like Infowars is a wiki
There’s also Metapedia if that’s too milquetoast for you.
Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971, in South Africa) is an American businessman and inventor ranked as the wealthiest man in the world, who supports freedom of speech and opposed tyrannical lockdowns during COVID-19. Musk campaigns tirelessly for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election,[2] such as holding a town hall in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on Oct. 26, 2024, which was viewed by 5.9 million times on X.[3] One commentator dubbed Elon Musk the “African American of the Year” for 2022.[4]
Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971) is an American billionaire most people associate with the Tesla Motors company. Also a co-founder of PayPal, a CEO for SpaceX, and chairman of SolarCity. He supposedly is “socially liberal and fiscally conservative”[1] but endorsed hyperinflationist Andrew Yang in 2020 presidential election. He believes in a man-made global warming. Musk was born in South Africa, raised in Canada and resides in Los Angeles. His wealth is estimated at $14 billion.
Musk companies are thriving due to government subsidies. Tesla Motors and SolarCity have taken a huge financial hit in 2016. Both these companies are based on the green energy movement and are being punished by the markets due to extremely low oil prices. Musk lost a personal fortune upwards of $4 billion.
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 dont condone violence, but if someone luigi’d musky boy I’d probably just go about my day as if nothing bad happened.
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
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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.
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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
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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.
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I’d take a day of PTO to celebrate.
I’d give the person who killed him a fucking alibi.
I dont condone violence
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.
that hasn’t changed just because the CEO died.
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. 🍻
Would be interesting to watch the media spin that.
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Elon is a moron’s idea of an intellectual.
Explains why he’s buddies with Trump. Lol.
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.
Propagandist hates source of information that makes his job of lying to people harder.
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.”
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.
It’s terrible if your goal is to hide information.
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.
Fuck Elon, Wikipedia is one of the only good things left on the internet
Thanks for the reminder. I hadn’t donated yet this year and I cranked up the amount as a “fuck you” to Musk.
Reality and its Liberal bias…
Canceled discord nitro, setup monthly donations to Wikipedia
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.
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:
- Get some basic understanding of the subject via the lead section.
- Potentially get some idea on if this subject has plenty of information about it before choosing to write about it (e.g. if you’re writing a high school or undergraduate essay, you probably want a topic that has a wealth of information about it, not to spend weeks trawling through archives trying to find whatever scraps you can).
- Edit: Because we try to make technical articles highly accessible, the way an article is written can also give you some idea if a subject is way out of your depth by seeing if you can even follow along with what it’s saying. This is important because a) it makes writing easier and b) there’s less risk of close paraphrasing when you understand a subject enough to put things into your own words.
- Find what’s hopefully a wealth of decent sources that will introduce you properly to the subject.
- Give you leads for what to search for elsewhere by giving you some key pieces of information about the subject.
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.
I would even say that professionally written encyclopedias like Britannica aren’t really a good “end source” that you should be citing.
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.
