weaponized nerdery

Nerds were invented by Charles Nerd, when in 1948, separated from the Poindexters and the eggheads after disagreement.

i dont think anyone is ignoring that. the meme is talking about how it was built, not how it's currently maintained. it definitely didn't start off spending that much. all that spending is a consequence of it's popularity, not the reason for it.

150m a year doesn't seem that much, honestly. I know people think "oh, it's just a website" but it takes a lot of work and money in salaries and infrastructure hosting to keep a web application as popular as Wikipedia up and running.

*enter the jocks

That's also what happened to the library of Leuven in Belgium. German burned it during WWI. Belgians rebuilt it. Then during WWII Germans were there again, and saw some message saying that Germans did not approve of culture because of the destruction of the library. So they burned it again. It has been rebuilt since

Why damn it? That's a good thing.

Here: it’s nerd’s, not nerds’.

You’re welcome.

I've done it at times. It works!

Ackchyually it's Wikipedia.

I think fire was tamed because the food poisoning killed those without it. We are supposed to just sleep at night.

I think the post makes a point important in modern capitalism: people will create "value" for free because they can, they care, they want to, it's a challenge. Capital and/or the threat of starvation is not actually always necessary for people to be "productive". Ego, boredom, altruism, adventure, these are also traits of humanity besides survival and greed.

You do it. Isn't that the point?

I realize autistic people often have trouble with tone and having people interpret things the way they meant it to come across -- lord knows it took me took long enough to develop that skill -- but good grief. I'm on the spectrum, and if I were a mod who had just read the comment in your screenshot, I'd've banned you too.

Now that you've explained you meant it in a positive way, I completely understand what you meant, but nothing in the comment you wrote makes it clear that you think of autism in a positive way or, in fact, as anything besides "lol nerd emoji". The fact that you had just finished going on a seven paragraph infodump (I'm guessing) unfortunately does nothing to prove otherwise: an unfortunate number of undiagnosed autistic people spend their days getting into online fights, writing said seven paragraph comments, and calling anyone who disagrees with them autistic because they want to feel superior and "autistic" is a handy epithet. I don't think anyone would argue these people should be welcome in our communities just because of autism they themselves don't know about.

To be clear, I'm not saying that last statement applies to you. I'm saying if I didn't know anything about you except that you had written the comment in that screenshot, I would have assumed it did and not given it a second thought. I can almost guarantee that's what that mod did.

While that term is slowly but surely being reclaimed, and I'm glad that it is, at present, it still holds the status of "insult unless explicitly stated otherwise." Now that you've told me what you meant, I can see where you were coming from, but as that comment was written, "spread some weaponized autism" implies you're prepared to call anyone who disagrees with you a slur. Your comment seems to be saying "only an idiot autistic person would miss the sarcasm in this comment and bother to respond." It's not what you meant, but it's how I (and no doubt plenty of other people) probably read it.

Please learn to use qualifiers and/or tone indicators, for the sake of your own reputation. If you'd said "Can't wait for all my autistic friends to chime in with a seven paragraph sales pitch for their niche chat platform of choice" or even just replaced "weaponized autism" with "weaponized autism (affectionate)" and left the rest of the comment as is, I guarantee you'd have been fine.

I get that you're trying to use it in a positive way, but in my country that first word you used is a slur that has not even attempted to be reclaimed, so it instantly makes me start reading your comment with an ableist tone.

Now that I know you're trying to frame it in a positive way, I can force myself to read your comment in a positive tone. But it's difficult because the language chosen still makes me read it like you're annoyed that autistic people will miss the sarcasm and take it too seriously.

You didn't use it in a "positive way" at all.

You bring up an interesting point. There are opposing opinions on everything if you go deep enough into the topic, even in STEM fields too.

It'd be interesting to see a Wikipedia that provides pages on the same topic that present each opinion. So the base/overview page on the topic states the summaries of each opinion with a link for further reading. Each opinion page states there are many opinions on the topic and it just presents one. Each page then suggests for further reading, view the base/overview page where the user can read about other opinions on the topic.

Lemmy.ml

Sur-fucking-prise.

It's definitely not 100% foolproof to misinformation, but I've always found wikipedia to be reliable. Why do you feel it isnt?

It's as accurate as any university textbook and way more accurate than any school textbook.