TheTechnician27 @ TheTechnician27 @lemmy.world

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How many Sharpies we talking here?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_J._Hemsley
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Witty

I'm so sorry for your loss. Restraining orders in this country are a joke.

For context, in 2023, the US had 19,252 cases of murder or voluntary manslaughter. The US is projected to have a 16% nationwide drop in homicides in 2024 ("homicide" includes involuntary manslaughter, so it's not technically one-to-one).

We'll be really generous to murder and voluntary manslaughter and assume that those actually dropped by what would be a substantial 20% (even though it could be lower than 16% too). Then we have about 15,400 of these cases. Under that assumption (which I think is pretty reasonable as most likely a very conservative undercount), this represents about 4.5% of intentional killings in the US. To my understanding, the overwhelming majority is male-on-male. After that, I have no clue where female-on-female and female-on-male land.

(EDIT: That being said, it's entirely possible and likely that this linked database is an undercount. Although overall, it seems pretty scrupulous; I doubt the size would increase by more than maybe 10% if it were to be complete.)

... Oh, crud.

It's from Johnny.

(It's from The Rooom (2003). I'm posting a meme of every line of dialogue from the movie as a self-imposed challenge and to raise awareness of the actual greatest film of all time. Not even being sarcastic: it loops back around, like an underflow.)

I actually don't think this would be bad. Growing up, my mom used to make syrupy waffles and it was one of my favorite breakfasts. Looking at the recipe, this is mostly the same, except you sub waffles for noodles. What's one carb for another? I could do without the strawberries though...

Enjoying your girlfriend's new humidifier I see.

It absolutely has to suffer from the network effect. (By the way, researching this made me realize their site is slow as shit. It died on me within 2 minutes, and I had to switch to the Wayback Machine.) Their statistics say they have 56,229 articles as of writing, which could plausibly be sustainable given: 1) they're less of a target for vandalism than Wikipedia so things are more stable, 2) the English Wikipedia alone has around 125x that number, and 3) ironically they have Wikipedia to fall back on for information whenever they want. However, even within those boundaries, it's clear they're a bunch of colossal dipshits who don't know how to write beyond a high school essay. Take a quick look at our article on the Nineteenth Amendment (this was picked 100% at random from an article I found on Conservapedia first), and now compare it to Conservapedia's. There are obvious giveaways here (I'm even ignoring the stances themselves being braindead, like taking a dig at women voting at least twice in the article):

• The article itself is titled 'Nineteenth Amendment' despite multiple other countries having such an amendment, indicating they're insular morons who can't be fucked with learning about anything outside the US.
• The article has a single source in the form of a dead link to 'tennesseeencyclopedia.net' which has been dead since 2010. An archive of this shows it's titled 'Woman Suffrage Movement' (excellent) and earnestly feels like it's targeted at 6th graders in a social studies class.
• The article is two short paragraphs long and nearly completely unsourced, instead written like an essay. Meanwhile, their linked article on the Equal Rights Amendment (despite being far less notable and consequential) is far longer at over a dozen paragraphs and multiple sections, indicating they aren't seriously interested in researching and documenting history or anything else typical of an encyclopedia as much as they are in publishing their barely filtered rants about current events under the guise of an encyclopedia.

So you're correct: in addition to suffering from the network effect and having fewer subjects they can cover, it just so happens that even within the potentially sustainable boundaries they set for themselves by having fewer articles, they're a bunch of complete assclowns who have no business writing an encyclopedia (or at least they need to be reeled in in order to bother to learn how to write one, but they never will be on that hell site). They're trapped in like c. 2004–2006 Wikipedia where nobody cares about being serious reference material, except they're also too stupid to ever move past that (unlike Wikipedia whose userbase was still very smart during that Wild West era but just hadn't developed a culture of taking what they wrote seriously).

Edit: I forgot to mention that thus, they'll never actually be a replacement for Wikipedia and in no way threaten it, because genuinely the only thing they make a serious effort to cover is current events (even then it's trash, but we'll assume you have low standards). If I want to learn about absolutely anything else, I'm boned. Because literally everything else is completely surface-level (or whatever kind of slop this is), or it just doesn't exist at all. Exhibit A: I'll turn your attention to our article on algebra versus their article on algebra. Ours is comprehensive while not being extraneous: it actually goes into sufficient detail about what algebra is and its many facets, and if you want more information on any of those aspects, it houses links to dozens upon dozens of more relevant articles. Theirs is a brief introduction to the kind of algebra you learn in 7th or 8th grade with literally zero understanding that algebra is a broader field than this. They literally don't even go into functions; it's specifically just Algebra I. And it's like fucking tutorializing these things. It's not even like they don't care: they genuinely just don't know. I'm both stunned and completely unsurprised.

Trust me, as a regular editor at Wikipedia, I'm all too aware of this bootleg. Mercifully I've never seen it come up organically on Wikipedia; literally no one cares about it.

I'm not the one who both-sides'd you. You'll have to take that up with the other user.

Literally five seconds on Wikipedia was too much for this christo-fascist dipshit. So of course he should be running a state of 31 million people.

You understand that stepping down doesn't leave that seat vacant for the 119th Congress, right? That there'll be a special election to replace her she's being replaced by a 38-year-old Democrat? What the fuck does this 68-year-old staying there have to offer versus someone younger?

You have yet to utter even a single word explaining how you think the GOP can use this to their advantage.

Kuster has been in Congress for 12 years. She's on three committees, and she ain't leading shit.

Letting private organizations fill roles that the government should be doing is one of the main reasons we have problems like homeless children that need to be solved in the first place. The church has tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars that could otherwise be going toward programs which reduce childhood poverty (and this of course isn't taxed). Moreover, churches prime people to believe and act on complete bullshit, which is exactly the kind of environment that fosters right-wing beliefs that are steeped in disinformation and rooted in a deficiency in critical thinking. Right-wing beliefs directly lead to poverty. Alleviating the symptoms of poverty via a cult instead of treating it at the source isn't the right way to do it.

Religion in general fosters these sorts of toxic power structures because it's based on fucking nonsense.

Real community is when people are in a cult whose authority figures systematically molest children. Got it.

Any other words of wisdom, oh one so ignorant of what a third place is?

A third place has nothing at all to do with what is and isn't paywalled. If I rented a Boeing 787 to take day trips with my friends every day for the next month, that'd still be a third place. It has everything to do with the first place being home and the second being work. It also has nothing, therefore, to do with "community" or "not community".

Even if we work under your (completely wrong) definition of third places as inherently fostering tight-knit community and not just being a place for you to exist around other people, smaller communities absolutely have the opportunity to do this. Roblox was one of my main third places when I was a kid, and it was a better third place than I could've had in real life. I met actual, real friends who I talked to daily for years and who accepted me. Right now I work on Wikipedia, which if you spend long enough there unambiguously has a community among the more experienced editors. I'm even in a Discord server where I joined for the project, ended up joining the team, and now feel like I'm good friends with the people there. Even Lemmy I'd say is small enough to start seeing a lot of familiar faces over time.

The Internet isn't inherently bad at fostering community. It's just that the modern Internet places a fuckload of emphasis on being in gigantic, uninteractive pools of people like Twitch chats that fly at a million miles a second and require you to spend $500 for a streamer to blink in your direction; a shitty short-form video service where you can comment and like but aren't seriously befriending anyone outside of extreme edge cases; a gigantic link aggregator where what you say is almost always drowned out immediately; multiplayer games that have new lobbies every match; etc.

Musk is just a Nazi. I can't believe there'e pushback on this at this point: he's outright just a neo-Nazi.