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  • "you're confusing cash with assets"

    you are incorrect again. I wrote assets, because I was talking about total assets(which, this sounds like it's going to blow your mind, includes cash!)

    maybe you aren't reading closely enough and are conflating my comments with the one sentence in the two articles you don't like for some weird reason?

    your next comment kind of explains another one of your blind spots:

    "And, for pedantic ness: "what the fuck are you talking about?""

    questions are not pedantic.

    you can't find out what somebody else meant unless you ask them a question.

    what you are doing is assuming an answer and then extrapolating off of that, which is very easy for you to attack, but is often wrong because you're making things up.

    The fact that you've finally except in my tutoring and have begun asking questions is a huge step forward.

    I'll go look for someone who knows how to golf clap.

    "I sort of assumed that basic literacy"

    that sounds like it's your problem, you should stop assuming basic literacy and practice reading.

    If you're just assuming literacy, in your head it sounds good, but out here it is rough for others to deal with you.

    "So again, what "mistakes" are you correcting? "

    that there's no way to confuse 300 with 400.

    that you can't tell the difference between an opinion and a number from financial audit.

    that because of one incorrect number you're dead set that both articles are wrong, even though their numbers are from the financial audit that you originally referenced.

    you mistake a statement for a question.

    there are more, but four of your mistakes should be enough of a start for you to recognize a few of your errors.

    don't want to move too fast for you.

    ps, good work on finally asking a question!

    all I had to do was teach you what a question was for half a dozen comments comments consecutively and you learned!

    that's progress.

  • "You seem deeply upset"

    nope I forget you're here until you comment again and I have to correct you all over again.

    correcting people is fun for me, so this isn't particularly upsetting.

    "your opinion"

    not my opinion, dozens of accurate numbers from two articles, one of those many numbers in one of those articles you have picked out to focus on.

    One of the articles overestimated a budget by 100 million, four instead of three, that's not going to bother me too much.

    you seem deeply upset by one source's overestimate.

    "that number seems preposterous...a totally bogus number detached from reality...."

    yeah who the heck could write four instead of three?

    how could anyone make that mistake? they must be nuts!

    adding one number in hundreds of millions of dollars of asset valuation?

    how could that even happen?

    guess we'll never know...

    "giving some sort of response..."

    you keep whining about receiving a response (desperate), but you still haven't asked a question.

    do you know how responses work? (that was a question. see the curly thing at the end? there's another!)

    go ahead, check your comment. not a single question, you're just rehashing you're earlier mistakes I have to correct all over again.

    which is fun.

    I'm down.

  • aren't you tired of being a liberal?

    don't you want to be a liberal who doesn't understand the point of politics?

    free your mind from pesky knowledge and political context, all it does is get in the way of forming autocratic groups and exploiting the people around you!

  • judging by your username, you share certain similarities with Bruce Willis.

    and he seems to forget who he is these days, so yeah you might actually be Bruce Willis.

    no, I've never heard covid victims called "those left behind", that is a rather morbid bit of prose from your part of the world.

  • "I'm honestly curious what point you think I'm responding to..."

    are you? you don't sound very curious. you haven't asked a single question.

    "You did actually use grossly inaccurate financial data"

    your make-believe is showing.

  • you seem to be extrapolating far-off tangential after-effects of a vague dystopian future not based on the current state of travel.

    yes, maybe someday everything will be worse.

    but then, maybe someday everything will be better.

    as for right now, travel is objectively easier for everybody than it has been in a very long time, maybe ever.

    We can start with that.

  • overall, it seems to be getting easier to travel, with longer-term visas being offered and most visas offered through online applications.

    there are more routes for legal permanent residency in countries as well these days, although i prefer itinerance.

    I think you're talking about permanent residency, which is inherently more bother than living somewhere else or traveling full-time.

  • "Why" was a typo, fixed it.

    Don Quixote is a famous literary figure who creates monsters out of his own failing perception and then attacks them.

    he's an analogy of you fabricating points I haven't made so you have something to struggle against.

  • Wow, you really like make believe huh?

    pretending I said things I didn't and then arguing against them isn't the gotcha you apparently think it is, Don Quixote.

    but if it makes you feel better, float your own boat.

  • "a two year old opinion piece on it,"

    it's the first article that popped up with reliable numbers, but there are plenty of articles criticizing the amassed wealth of wmf while they're asking for money every year.

    unsurprisingly, the WMF reports that WMF are spending their money responsibly and are barely managing to sustain themselves, while every journalist that looks into it confirms that WMF have plenty of money and have not needed to do these fundraising drives for years, and will not have to for decades.

    $100 million is purely cash on hand, it doesn't take into account any otger WMF assets.

    it's nice that you're excited about Wikipedia, and it can be a useful resource, but these are not contentious facts.

    Wikipedia has plenty of money, they spend it irresponsibly, and every year they are taking and millions of dollars that they add to that stack.

    important to note, Wikipedias value to the end users is contributed two and maintained by unpaid volunteers.

    here's another good article;

    https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-foundation-donate.html

    I made sure it was also 2 years old because I think it's funny your ageist about facts.

    I'll talk to you in 50 years and we can settle this.

  • I still dual boot with Windows for gaming, so I can't comment on the next gaming as much, but I will say that LTSC is everything that it seems to be (or not be).

    Windows without any bullshit, I used it for years.

    I use windows solely for ease of gaming so I haven't bothered to replace the stock, but if you do keep using Windows, LTSC is definitely the way to go.

    as far as the articles going around, Linux is catching up but is not yet as effortless less as Windows for gaming specifically.