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612·8 months agoA 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.
444·9 months agoIt only knows about things people talk about online. I bet it knows how trump likes his bed made, but doesn’t even know what you can do in a library
https://forums.reeltalk.club/t/adding-imdb-watchlist-to-radarr/92
You need to put a little work in setting up a few different programs to all work together, the first time might take you awhile depending on how familiar you are with it (my first time it took me a few days to get everything set up how I like it).
But it’s worth it for the convenience you’ll enjoy
With a Usenet account, I was able to make things relatively autonomous.
I told it what I wanted and it found it immediately, downloaded it, renamed it, even replaced it with higher quality whenever it became available.
It would find new episodes of shows I asked it to look for as they aired, new movies I was interested in as soon as they became available, Scott’s, genres, it was crazy.
If I was at work and someone recommended me a movie, I could add it to an IMDb watch list and my PC at home would have it downloaded automatically before I even got home.
It was way too efficient for me, I don’t watch much ‘content’ in real life, but it was so easy and efficient I ended up with dozens of TB’s of stuff that I never had the time to watch to begin with.
I was a collector of ‘content’ and not a consumer of it. So I stopped torrenting and using Usenet.
But Usenet is really pretty awesome with the right setup. I felt like I didn’t need to do shit once I set everything up.
8·9 months agoStreet fighter II
growing up with line ups of kids playing sfii in the arcades, leaving your quarters on the cab in a line to figure out who’s next, and when someone finally beat that Asian kid (who knew every move you’d make and always picked chun li) who played for free all day beating everyone else was finally beaten and the cheers and the whooping and sometimes even the real fist fights over it.
Street fighter ii was an absolute phenomenal moment in gaming
16·9 months agoYou should look into the dairy cartel of canada
https://hir.harvard.edu/canadas-dairy-lobby-the-shocking-power-of-big-milk/
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Can they tell how many accounts of mine they’ve banned?
Oh I don’t care actually
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2·10 months agoThe pro-communists call normal people the extremists
“American Movie”
Nothing summarizes the dream of freedom and creativity of the human species in the face of incompetency like “American Movie”
A documentary about a couple of regular dudes trying to make a horror movie
“The Final Member”
It’s a documentary about the worlds first penis museum in Iceland trying to finally secure a human specimen
It could be, my bad if so.
I’m having a dozen conversations right now and I suspect this lemmy app I’m using links me incorrectly sometimes.
Omg, bro don’t spout this communist manifesto shit at me please!
And to the second part “then we’ll just make more tires” is where the devil is in the details. How is that organized? How is that, more importantly, enforced?
You can’t just “bourgeoisie” and the. “We’ll just make more” and skirt off into the sunset. How will we, how exactly will we, make more tires?
Like really dive in here, because this is where the rubber meets the road. How do we ‘just make more’? Where do the workers come from? How do they know we even need to make more tires? Who tells them? And what happens if …. No one shows up to make any more tires?
What if everyone is too busy hiking, or learning a new language, or doing art or writing great novels to make more tires?
Seriously, what is your expectation? What standard of living and what level of effort are you not reaching, or are extending too much effort to achieve?
Why is life not coming close to satisfying you? Is it because people have more than you do? Is it because people have less?
I think stating expectations is pretty important.
Me? I want to earn enough to support myself, my family a couple of dogs, have two cars and a house and raise smart and healthy and vibrant children.
I want a lifestyle where I can travel once in awhile, I can pay for the things I enjoy in my leisure time and recreation.
I want to send my kids to summer camp and soccer and gymnastics, I want to buy my wife things she likes for Christmas and birthdays and anniversaries.
If I want all of these things, I have to go out and get them. If I wait for the government to give them to me, they’ll never come.
Now are your expectations in line with, or above or below what mine are? Does it bother you that people have more than you do?
I don’t need a yatch, or my own spaceship. I wouldn’t even know what to do with those things if I did have them.
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Whoever said that should step out of their bubble and have a look around once in awhile