“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.

nope

yup, I have a lot of time so I read a lot.

If you don’t have a lot of time, don’t sweat it.

“Dragonball is based on the old Chinese myth of Journey to the West”

I never made the connection between goku’s peculiarities and journey to the West, that’s interesting, thanks.

I don’t anymore.

they do not need your money, and it’s disingenuous of them to imply they do.

The manipulative aspect of their annual fundraisers is very unsettling.

here are some numbers from 2022:

https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-next-time-wikipedia-asks-for-a-donation-ignore-it/

they have at least 400 million in reserves now and the estimate is $10 million a year to maintain the site and pay all their employees.

their higher executives are each paid hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

they’re not struggling to keep the lights on for the next half century.

The youngest age of consent in the US is currently 16, unrestricted, but 14 if you’re within a few years of the 14-year-old.

I didn’t know the majority of the US age of consent was 16, I thought that was a European thing.

but only 12 states have the age of consent at 18.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States

from 15, apparently

that’s basically what’s going to happen again.

US companies will use less consulting because it’s more expensive.

this is my favorite explanation, by Leslie mann, of the role of St. Peter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqwgEk_zPZI&t=07

wow, that is a great video.

I hear the word expat all over the world, I don’t think it’s regional.

“immigrant” gives the impression that you are traveling to get to someplace, while expat implies that you are traveling to get away from someplace, as I’ve heard it used.

A few different film techniques.

they could film the actor in different costumes on the same set without moving the camera, and then they put those performances together.

so you can have the profile of Austin powers on the left talking to the profile of Dr. evil on the right, and those were separate performances pasted together so it looks like they’re responding to each other even though Mike Myers was performing those conversations separately during different recordings.

If evil and Austin are in the same shot and it’s an over-the-shoulder, the actor facing the camera is the real actor and the guy not facing the camera is a body double with the same hair or bald mask

so if you were looking at Austin and Dr. evil in the same shot, either those are two separate performances put together and you’ll see that they never touch each other, or if they do touch each other, you’ll notice that you never see the frontal face of one of the actors, which is actually a body double.

and you can see these two techniques and others used in Eddie Murphy’s movies, or pretty much any body double move movie.

get a rice cooker.

One button. super safe. easy to clean.

there are recipe books about how to use a rice cooker to cook all sorts of stuff (rice, curries, hot pot, soups, pasta, steamed anything)

with that same one button.

after you get comfortable heating up food so that you can eat it, you can try a pan or a Crock-Pot, whatever strikes your fancy.

“…over your head”

Don’t get too worked up, folks can’t help but understand you.

the salient characteristic of your comments is their simple-mindedness.

I don’t hang out with a lot of 13-year-olds.

I guess it’s good you’re learning something from them.

is your relationship with them appropriate?

I’m sure the room is real, but that is not the average.

That is a very nice Swedish dining room.

I’m curious, since the federation seems a lot more geographically decentralized then reddit did.

is there any information on the User-Base by nationality?

some of us were wondering on another thread since there are so many communities in different languages, but I can’t find any way to tell the ballpark nationality percentages of the users here.

that’s great to hear, congratulations!