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They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.
  • A lot of the political entries are written with a bent towards being sympathetic with leftists.

    The Kyle Rittenhouse article spends a lot of time on how Rittenhouse ‘appeared in conservative media’ or ‘appeared with conservative personalities’ which is a pretty weird thing to say, if you don’t already understand the political undertones of the Kenosha riot.

    When you click the article for the Kenosha riot, it’s titled ‘civil unrest in Kenosha’ and focusses a lot on what a reader would perceive as positive aims of the riot. Protesting racism and police brutality, and doesn’t focus at all on the crime, danger, guns, vandalism, arson, etc

    That article mentions BLM and when you read that article it makes sure to state that BLM protests were ‘largely peaceful’ and totally misses the amount of deaths and destruction that had happened at them.

    The BLM article, if written like the Rittenhouse article, should focus a fair amount in the organizations ties to Marxism, the overthrowing of capitalism and colonialism, but doesn’t.

    Wikipedia articles are written and edited and maintained to push a narrative.

    If you agree with the narrative, you probably like that it does this. If you disagree, you probably don’t bother reading Wikipedia very much.

    The issue with sources, is that a lot of ‘sources’ for stuff like this are already heavily curated to paint a picture the editors want to put on front street.

    And anything that would combat that narrative is just outright banned from the site.

    A lot of citations with politically charged topics are just opinions anyway. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer or sources on the war between Palestine and isreal, for example. But if Wikipedia editors want to push propaganda for either side over the other, all they have to do is only cite pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli sources.

    This is easily exploitable by editors for whatever narrative they choose to push.

    Wikipedia is not an exhaustive gathering of all relevant information, it is a carefully curated propaganda machine for the editors.

  • The NHL bans Pride Tape, setting off a backlash from players and fans
  • Of course it’s just a PR stunt. Do you not realize that’s the entire reason companies and organizations do these types of promotional things?

    They want to sell jerseys and get people to tune in or come to the arena.

    For example, when was the last time you saw BLM messaging at an NFL game?

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/resizer/_aiODebqhVgxOkCqvoIPaih6oKM=/1400x0/top/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/ZDQATCHVZJHIVN25KNGO2XVXZQ.jpg

    If this was anything more than PR for these people, it wouldn’t have ever gone away.

  • The NHL bans Pride Tape, setting off a backlash from players and fans
  • There’s about 800 players in the NHL. Twitter focussed on 2-3 of them and ruined it for everyone.

    Yes, this is the fault of people who can’t see the good in something, they need to make the negative the most talked about thing.

    If those people wanted to celebrate inclusivity, they should have done that.

  • CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited."
  • That entirely depends on your expectations of a company CEO

    https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ATVI/activision-blizzard/stock-price-history

    I can’t think of a company that wouldn’t hire someone with this kind of stock performance over 30 years.

    The issue is really that consumers just keep spending money on things that they hate.

    If they didnt do that, Bobby would have been gone a long long time ago

  • Say goodbye to the COVID-19 vaccination card. The CDC has stopped printing them
  • My barber, my small town famous bakery and at least one restaurant in town all went out of business.

    There is nothing hyperbolic or untruthful about what I said.

    I didn’t say that ALL barbers went out of business, or ALL bakeries either.

    But mine did. I even posted a link to the stats in Canada for small businesses closing forever due to the governments restrictions.

    Grow up

  • [Misleading Title] All Dragon Age QA staff who formed union laid off
  • Is it?

    These people didn’t work for BioWare, didn’t have a CBA with BioWare, and the company they do have a CBA with says their contract with the client (BioWare) ended.

    This is exactly how it’s supposed to happen, except the hysterical media used the word ‘laid off’ instead of ‘completed their contract’

  • How Did The Capitol Police Put Down Trump’s Insurrection?

    How did the Capitol Police stop the violent insurrection on Jan 6th?

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    The only ‘new’ feature that would excite me enough to buy an iPhone 15 is USB-C
    www.youtube.com Apple Event - September 12

    Watch the special Apple Event to learn about iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro, Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Ultra 2, and more.To watch the event interpreted in ...

    Apple Event - September 12

    That seems like either I’m 100% satisfied with my iPhone 13 Pro Max, and I have reached my peak cell phone feature set, or the iPhone 15 just is not very enticing of a purchase, especially considering the considerable cost.

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