“Why” was a typo, fixed it.

Don Quixote is a famous literary figure who creates monsters out of his own failing perception and then attacks them.

he’s an analogy of you fabricating points I haven’t made so you have something to struggle against.

leaving my home country for the first time.

all the “immutable facts of life” are a plane ticket way from becoming weird rituals or disagreeable foreign affairs.

Wow, you really like make believe huh?

pretending I said things I didn’t and then arguing against them isn’t the gotcha you apparently think it is, Don Quixote.

but if it makes you feel better, float your own boat.

“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.

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.

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.

cool. i always like digging through the huge pillow cushion area they have at thrift stores.

I have a lot of pillows.

I liked using my standing desk in my home office. so much that I eventually got one for the office.

I got a lot of compliments and interested short conversations, but notably only one other person transitioned to a standing desk.

I’ll say that some chairs are more comfortable than others, but a standing desk is finally what felt the most comfortable for me.

everyone say goodbye to the wonderful decadess of lean, efficient, bloat-free Microsoft software we have known and loved up until 2024!

hahaha

The hateful minority have run a campaign championing selfishness and ignorance and the vicarious absolution thereof.

it’s much easier to be selfish and ignorant than it is to be considerate and responsible.

conservatives are selfish and ignorant and their party is very successfully campaigning selfishness and ignorance.

on the other hand, the democrats have to convince people that childish short-term desires are not always the best decision for themselves and others.

Trump is telling everybody that if you want to steal a cheeseburger from somebody else and eat it, then you should.

Harris is telling everybody that stealing is wrong and counterproductive, and cheeseburgers are not healthy.

or, since Trump is a rapist:

Trump is telling conservatives it’s good to rape people If they want to rape people.

Harris is telling people that it isn’t good to rape people because it violates their dignity and free will.

be cool. they’ll be cool.