VolcanoWonderpants

joined 7 months ago
[โ€“] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can get why that user might have a pro-communist bias themself due to being from a pro-communist instance, but the articles they linked seemed to be an accurate enough representation of how the far left and far right see Wikipedia.

Maybe not completely accurate to how it really is in all aspects, but I don't really care enough about Wikipedia's biases to fact check each contradictory claim in each article. I barely use it as a point of reference anymore anyways. (Though I've found it tends to have a liberal bias, like both the articles stated. I seem to remember that during the past election, some sections of the articles about Trump or featuring him in some way used very emotionally charged language)

But accurate or not, I still find it hilarious to look at the articles side by side. One claims the articles are written mainly by teenagers and the unemployed and supports communism, and the other claims they're written mostly by privileged White men who hate communism.

[โ€“] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

...are these people writing about the same website?! ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Not part of this community, so maybe this is a stupid question, but...wouldn't those things taste terrible mixed together?

Edit: just looked up whether you could mix mead with tea, and apparently it is a thing people do. I guess the reason why I thought it would taste terrible is because I've tasted tea mixed with coffee, and it tasted terrible. I also just looked up whether you could mix tea with coffee, and apparently it can taste good too. My whole world of not mixing beverages has been flipped upside down. I'm sleep deprived. I will probably regret this comment.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see another boom in active users and new accounts due to that. Just depends on how much this pushes users who were already annoyed over api changes over the edge.

[โ€“] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 8 points 7 months ago (8 children)

What are some you'd like to see?

[โ€“] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

For me, I've gotta say "Machine Messiah", by Yes. It's one of the longest, and most interesting songs I've heard. Most songs have just one "mood" explored in them, but this one shifts from joyous to melancholy and back multiple times, and does so perfectly. Plus, I'm very nostalgic about it since it was one of my favorite songs as a child. Drama was the one of the first two albums I bought as a kid, almost entirely because that one song was on it. (Also--is that a Sonic pfp, op? A person of culture, I see ๐Ÿ˜‰)

I can get people being cautious about for-profits trying to monetize user data, but trying to ruin this guy's life over it, regardless of whether or not he was actually trying to make money from their data, is just sick. Anyone who thinks this is an acceptable method of protest is fucked up in the head.