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Wikipedia has honest to god some of the worst source work I’ve ever seen on virtually all its pages that are primarily historical/political rather than scientific/mathematic.
@SlurricaneH
"I went overbudget by 15% of $3200" equates to "I spend nearly $500 a month more than I would living in New York to live in Ohio and also have to wake up at 4 AM once a week to go to work (I still live in NY 5 days a week)"
Here’s a fake quote from Marx from the Wikipedia page for “Four Great Inventions” that is literally contradicted by the only mention of these three inventions anywhere in Marx’s writing
@postingwhilegay
if i had to guess as to what's actually going on here it's probably a buddhist monk undergoing sulf-mummification prior to their death upon reaching enlightenment, where they basically dehydrate themselves by refusing to drink water and eating lots of salt and stuff
@capybaroness
Every scene with Dano rules because it nails the fact that most online losers aren't epic hardcore Joker guys, just weird in a kind of sad way. I audibly laughed in the theatre when it showed his secret vlog, its so dead accurate in its awkwardness.
@GrahamB47
Something the first last of us game did really well is that its environmental story telling was not concise it all. Like, it felt real when you would pick up these characters log and they ramble for like three or four pages before they get to any actual point.
The Wikipedia page for Roman currency has a section on currency debasement, covering hundreds of years of history, and the sole source in this entire section is a single random website with no explicit sources that hasn’t been updated in 22 years
@hum_dunkin
people will post videos of soldiers doing the most basic maneuvers imaginable all the time like they show a great deal of coordination amongst the troops, when this stuff is really standard fare for anybody in a parade uniform.
Until November of last year (!), the Wikipedia page for the Kingdom of Soissons pretended it was a self described kingdom that operate as an independent state that claimed continuity with Rome, with no mention of its title being a historiographic invention.
The Wikipedia page for the Maji Maji rebellion, which killed possibly a quarter of a million people in German East Africa, cites a random Spanish website for the German casualties
@SeanRMoorhead
I use my autism to memorize facts about Chinese cities because I like making students from Xi’an feel like they’re welcome by pointing out Qin Shi Huang was from there
The Wikipedia page for the West Carpathian offensive in English has zero sources! It is entirely a copy of a German Wikipedia page that has 1 (maybe 2) academic sources on it and a bunch of Russian websites supplementing that
@twinkophrenia
I feel like "racist," "anti-black," "colorist," and "white supremacist" is sort of stat padding. They're synonyms of one shade or another.
The page for the House of Sforza, who ruled the Duchy of Milan between 1450 and 1535, cites the website of the city of Gradara, the Brittanica article for Sigismund I of Poland, an article in an Italian journal of a family that lived 250 years later, and a GameInformer article.
@darth_erogenous
I love how the Academy nominates a bunch of Hollywood stooges and one genuinely insightful film maker every year because you get this beautiful sort of contrast.
@legotrillermoth
Saw someone say “there aren’t even that many black people in Miami, it’s mostly Cubans” and brother have I got some news for you about the ancestry of most Cubans
@SeanRMoorhead
The person from Chongqing I know was very impressed I knew it was the provisional capital of the Republic of China during the second Sino Japanese War.
The wikipedia page for a triclinium (Roman dining room) cites a blog post from the Getty Center, a popular history encyclopedia from 1944, a random PhD thesis from 1994, and the 1911 edition of Encyclopedia Brittanica.
The wikipedia page for Temporal parts has exactly one in-text citation, and half the sources it cites aren't perdurantists (i.e. they hold an opposition to temporal parts). Compare with the SEP article, which cites literally dozens of articles in its first section
@twinkophrenia
People will always come out of the woodwork to be like "some nobody in the 19th century strung those words together once, it clearly predates ASoIaF!" and then you look at the usage data and we're supposed to believe that argument has any validity whatsoever
@Srirachachau
@dennisbhooper
There’s a BTS for this scene where Viggo said that the Uruk stunt coordinator got them really amped up with a speech about being slayers of men who had come to end the lineages of the free people and it made shooting the scene hard because they were actually trying to beat him.
@ULTRASLUT
@legokillermoth
It says "other gender neutral cartoons," but a pregnant man is not gender neutral. It depicts a male person, one of the possible ways a person might identify their gender. Sad to see the sloppy state of language use in outrage headlines.
@TheEpicDept
going into his replies and asking "why are you so proud about shooting some unarmed guy, hasn't every navy seal done that like 100 times" and watching him near instantaneously block you is a great twitter experience.
The fourth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" has been published by Foreign Languages Press in both Chinese and English. The book will be available at home and abroad.
--globaltimes.cn/page/202207/1269611.shtml
@aarond
@Chinchillazllla
this guy is always fear mongering about artificial intelligence but he thinks we should just be cool with a billionaire union buster putting computer chips in our brain.
@bornposting
This movie is just fantastic recreations of stuff from the Hollywood silver age interspersed with hilarious plot scenes, honestly my favorite Coen film to watch.