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- Comment on Why Should I... 2 days ago:
There are better fake cheeses these days. It’s easier to give it up than it ever was. And tons of pizzerias now offer vegan cheese pizzas.
But honestly giving up beef alone should be commended, just for environmental/climate reasons.
- Comment on To be happy… 3 days ago:
They’re literally small convection ovens rebranded. They’re not magic.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 3 days ago:
Did you seriously search for “hockey” in gay pornhub?
You have to be fucking Canadian
- Comment on wiki workers united! 4 days ago:
I read through it and they have roughly 17 months of runway left to cover all their services. They don’t have “decades”.
Whoever this is claiming they have decades of pay is full of shit, and just saying they spend too much and have too much “bloat” when the non wikipedia stuff is like wikiversity and wikibooks, actual decent 100% free services with great intentions. Literally they are a non profit that survive on donations and spend 70% on payroll and data center services to offer us free shit.
- Comment on wiki workers united! 4 days ago:
Okay so I’m not too familiar with Wikimedia’s other offerings so I decided to look it up
wikimediafoundation.org/…/wikimedia-projects/
WikiBooks free ebooks, cool I should go through what they have
wikisource: freely licensed historical texts and docs, cool don’t need but sounds good to have
Wikiversity: free education via learning resources and projects, fucking awesome and wish I knew about it before
wikivoyage: free travel guide, cool stuff
…
You’re really arguing that all this is unnecessary bloat? There’s a lot of cool shit here that seems like it’s totally made with awesome intentions, to provide all sorts of free resources from a certified non profit org that is literally just trying to crowd source information and provide it back to the community for 100% free with no ads.
That’s like saying your city library takes up too much space and should downsize because fuck free stuff. Except your taxes don’t even go to this… just donations, and you’re literally telling people online to not donate to them because they have too much money and lying about how long they can survive on it…
Honestly, what the fuck is wrong with you?
- Comment on wiki workers united! 4 days ago:
As of June 30, 2025, the Foundation’s net assets were $296.6 million, which represents 17.1 months of operating expenses
lol not decades and mostly donations
Revenue: The Foundation’s total revenue increased by $23.2 million, to $208.6 million during fiscal year 2024-2025. The vast majority of this revenue came from donations (including grants from the Endowment), as well as investment income, Wikimedia Enterprise revenue, and other revenue primarily related to a cost sharing agreement with the Wikimedia Endowment, which, to keep the Endowment’s costs down, allows the Endowment to leverage staffing and other resources from the Foundation and reimburse the Foundation for this usage. Donation revenue increased $14.8 million, from $174.7 million to $189.5 million.
How much do you think payroll is? Major layoffs would likely begin in a year if people stopped donating i’d imagine.
Expenses: Our expenses totaled $190.9 million, of which 77.4% went to programmatic activities
That includes their data centers engineering and security payroll from what I read. The bulk of expenses is literally just to run the application smoothly, and keep these employees paid.
The only way to make their funds lasts decades would be to shut down a ton of shit and lay off employees, which would not be something anyone wants.
- Comment on Bunnies are metal 5 days ago:
Honestly not that far off. It’s like a wet bunny without the ears.
- Comment on Hey Vern, it's new! 5 days ago:
Oh shit you mean legit smoker, I thought you meant “smoking hot” in regards to the drag lol
- Comment on SBA #230 (the dentist hour) Sins and Virtues 5 days ago:
I think melancholy is the sloth sin isn’t it? It’s more standard to consider it sloth now but it used to be linked to melancholy
- Comment on SBA #230 (the dentist hour) Sins and Virtues 5 days ago:
Dear diary
Today I took a SpongeBob meme seriously and got MAD
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 6 days ago:
This and you really want a pineapple but she laughs at you and won’t give you one and you start to get really anxious
- Comment on But what if I don't like soy milk? 1 week ago:
This sort of thinking gave us the batshit crazy RFK Jr administration.
They said “you’ll be forced to eat bugs and drink soy milk!” Then literally stopped regulating farming and fucked all your raw foods to death with salmonella and contaminants
- Comment on But what if I don't like soy milk? 1 week ago:
Climate change made it a luxury good since it requires farm land. You will be expected to chase down your antidepressants with a BuzzBall, made with ethyl alcohol synthesized from petroleum products.
- Comment on If I wrote a script for a movie and sent it off to a studio or whatever. What prevents the person who recieved it from claiming it as their own? 1 week ago:
A body horror story about a pregnant woman who starts to think her unborn child might be the anti christ, and has terrifying dreams of the apocalypse, and seeks the aid of the Catholic church
They want something that comes with an audience already
… But with Minions!
- Comment on Disgusted 1 week ago:
I don’t think Iran is a proxy for Russia as much as Russia and China have interests in Iran remaining sovereign and trading oil in currencies other than the US$. It is more a proxy war with China than anything, considering they sell a ton of oil for Chinese yuan, but it’s more about long term strategic interests, everyone moving chess pieces to the middle for the “inevitable conflict” that no one really wants to fight.
I think it’s just the natural progression of what has been a very cold war between US and China.
- Comment on Disgusted 1 week ago:
I think by definition it’s not a proxy war if you consider Russia to be the main aggressor in the conflict.
However it is clear there are two global sides here, and lots of other countries have financial stakes in it:
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukrain…
en.wikipedia.org/…/Support_for_Russia_in_the_Russ…
But this is less of a proxy war than we’re used to in the Middle East with the US fucking with Russian allies or Russia fucking with Western, with neither the US nor Russia ever trying to kill one another. This is just Russia straight up attacking a neighbor trying to annex more land.
Annexing land isnt very proxy war. It’d be more, “hey you guys sell oil for US$ now and forever but we’re leaving”
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 1 week ago:
There’s a lot of reason it’s tied to employment, and it’s all basically to make sure most Americans are basically poor feudal peasants.
We live in the modern equivalent of a feudal monarchy, and if you’re not contributing as a member of the labor class then you won’t be taken care of. Simple as that. Laboratores must labor.
And we simply turn our heads and pretend the rest don’t exist. Those that don’t labor are shunned, and will die off of infection or starvation or due to the elements.
And then we say it’s their fault for being lazy.
- Comment on Would it be possible to make a network wide AI blocker? 1 week ago:
Yes and no. The more you want to block it, the more technically involved it becomes.
High level, yes, if you scope it to a specific problem domain. Want to focus on YouTube videos and channels, with report functionality plus custom blocklists? Sure, that would be doable as something like a browser extension.
As soon as you add reporting, consider that idiots report bad stuff and stuff they don’t like just because, and people abuse it. You end up needing to moderate blocklists and users that can report.
If you want to go to the image level, yes but as an extension you are probably checking the hash of every single fucking image and have some sort of hash prefix map or bloom filter to match against, like Google safe browsing. This becomes a pain and the thing about AI is they generate new shit constantly. And they evade hash checks by cropping on purpose, avoid dupe detection on social media by doing that plus ocr checks.
Ever notice a word gets a letter bleeped out and people are like why did they censor that? Sometimes it’s due to ocr for dupe.image detection and they defeat it by changing the text. They also defeat your basic hash checks by flipping any pixels.
This problem of “how do I curate stuff so I only see what I like” can be a really hard problem and people are constantly trying to defeat it to make bots with high stats to use for ads.
I would figure out specifically what is frustrating you and solving the problem in a narrow space like YouTube channels, curators. Or GitHub users, repos using AI, etc. Solve a specific problem and do it well. if it’s specific enough you can come up with good ways of doing it that solve it really well, and other people might appreciate it. Then it can become a part of an anti AI suite rather than just doing everything but badly.
- Comment on Evil Bisexuals 1 week ago:
Are places in the Midwest like Kentucky secretly super gay
- Comment on why just "now and then" isn't enough 1 week ago:
I only douche with the best oven cleaner
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
Give the year 10 years and it’ll be a $350 Trillion Trump Class America Drone, and be some janky ass quad copter that burns coal
- Comment on Olive Branch MS mayor refusing to lower flag for Dolly 1 week ago:
As long as this is the legitimate reason and not just the cleaned up political correct reason
As long as it’s not “she supported the transgender” or some bullshit in other words
- Comment on It’s That Easy [Tommy Siegel] 1 week ago:
That dude aged really well and kept a pretty bright attitude all considered
- Comment on Look What I've Found! 2 weeks ago:
Someone dropped something from his prison pocket
- Comment on Brilliant‼️ 2 weeks ago:
It’s not to censor the idea. It’s that dupe detection bots use ocr and fucking with letters can defeat it
- Comment on Thanks AI for the help 2 weeks ago:
Ain’t gonna suck itself grin
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 2 weeks ago:
Google homeless man abs
Constant walking, fasting, getting up with the sun and going to sleep at sunset… It might kill you but you’ll be doing a routine whether you like it or not
- Comment on if only people knew how based He is 2 weeks ago:
I like it when they’re 5/5
- Comment on Monitor GPU dating 2 weeks ago:
Like the other person said, dupe detecting bots can use ocr, and changing text like cropping out one letter might be enough to fool it
- Comment on VR controls are the worst 2 weeks ago:
Fatly going around corners
