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theywilleatthestars , to Technology in Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia

Someone get this asshole to get into a submarine

Gradually_Adjusting , to Technology in Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

Deeply unwelcome. I hate that this is even a thought that he has had.

gregorum ,
@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar

Buying and destroying Twitter started with a joke like this.

Crikeste ,

Unless Wikipedia is a public company with fiduciary responsibilities, can’t they just say, “fuck you. No.”?

EDIT: They’re a non commercial 501(c)(3). They can say “fuck you. No.”

gregorum ,
@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar

Well I’m sure glad someone looked into that. Still, I’m anxious he might try to do Bad Things™ to it. Ya know, like he does whenever he gets some idea in his head about something, and then Bad Things™ happen to it.

Gradually_Adjusting ,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

There's that, and the fact that Jimmy Wales might have a reverse uno card, as he is quietly developing a free and non profit social media platform of his own called trust cafe.

Veedem , to Technology in Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia
@Veedem@lemmy.world avatar

I donated to Wikipedia, today. A few bucks to a very valuable site.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social avatar

Wikipedia should run a fund raiser: "Give us a billion dollars or we'll change the name."

Ersatz86 , to Technology in Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia

Alternate headline:

“Massive shitcunt threatens to destroy the actual best part of the internet to the surprise of absolutely no one”

is what they meant to say

Incidentally, do you guys remember when this fuckhead was a darling of the left?

These are strange times.

ChicoSuave ,

He was a darling because he was a literally unknown person who introduced themselves with a controlled media profile who sold a way to approach the fossil fuel problem. The nice thing about the left is their views evolve rapidly to current events and Elon has been inescapable in media, so naturally he reveals his true neocon form.

Corkyskog ,

The nice thing about the left is that they have some critical thinking abilities.

Made it more broad and concise for you.

Mojojojo1993 , to Technology in Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia

Stop posting Musk's fucking face. This isn't tech

waitmarks , to Technology in Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia

Someone should tell Elon that an unprofitable website and a non-profit website are not the same thing.

gravitas_deficiency , to Not The Onion in Right-Wingers Say Super Bowl Is Rigged So Taylor Swift Can Endorse Biden

Lmao what the actual fuck 🤣

ThrowawaySobriquet , to Technology in [Broken clocks are still right twice a day] Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for Making Money Over Benefitting Humanity

While I agree with the spirit of the suit, it very much smacks of Lex Luthor suing Veronica Cale for Moral Impropriety

cyborganism , to Not The Onion in Viral Mystery Song 'Everyone Knows That' Identified Thanks to Eighties Porno

That song is a real bang her.

athos77 , to Not The Onion in Viral Mystery Song 'Everyone Knows That' Identified Thanks to Eighties Porno

It’s called “Ulterior Motives” and was made by Christopher Saint Booth and Philip Adrian Booth. It appears in the 1986 adult film Angels of Passion. [...] "two angels are sent back to Earth to provide some sexual satisfaction to the mortal humans".

The news even made it to Christopher Booth, who’s been working as a composer, director, and producer for years, mostly on horror flicks and TV series. “Well today, my mind has officially been blown:) WOW,” he wrote on Instagram.

some kind soul has uploaded a heavily censored, safe-for-work version of Angels of Passion to YouTube.

Link to song.

FenrirIII ,
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

I'm out of the loop on this one

Seleni ,

Just of those songs that ‘everyone knows’ but no-one knew who wrote it. It’s been driving people crazy for decades.

aBundleOfFerrets , to Technology in [Broken clocks are still right twice a day] Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for Making Money Over Benefitting Humanity

Thank goodness the courts don’t have a “pot calling the kettle black” clause

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , to World News in Pro-Palestine Protest Disrupts U of M's Graduation Ceremony as Schools Prep for Commencements

The good news is that like 5 years after college no one gives a shit about commencement or, for that matter, where you went to college. The most popular commencement speaker when I was finishing college was Bill Cosby.

ChowJeeBai , to World News in Pro-Palestine Protest Disrupts U of M's Graduation Ceremony as Schools Prep for Commencements

I get the feeling this is going to happen a lot this year.

cupcakezealot , to World News in Pro-Palestine Protest Disrupts U of M's Graduation Ceremony as Schools Prep for Commencements
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

sorry but that's just being assholes for the sake of being assholes what are you going to accomplish my ruining your classmates big day

madeinthebackseat ,

Now imagine if the IDF had shown up and murdered a bunch of people at the graduation ceremony.

What scale of asshole would that be?

Crampon ,

Imagine if Hamas stormed a festival and executed 1200 people for shits and giggles. Now that would be some assholery.

Lucky for us Hamas is a wholesome book club.

Stupid rhetoric.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

These are not pro-Hamas protesters, so that's not relevant.

madeinthebackseat ,

If we're going to get the analogy correct, you're right, Hamas would be the assholes that killed 1200 people at a festival, and then IDF/Israel killed 34,000+, 70% women and children, in response.

Seems like a balanced response from a country which you'd expect to desire the respect of other first world countries?

Oh wait. That's not an analogy.

Let's see what happens next? Spoiler! Israel annexes more Palestinian land for illegal settlements!

Crampon ,

I'm not defending the actions of the Israeli army. They are doing some bad stuff.

But everyone supporting Palestine as a state should have a week with Hamas at work. Hamas is the government of Palestine. The civilian population of Palestine are getting shafted because the Palestinian government are using them as shield.

If Palestine sent it's army. Read Hamas to fight in the field Israel wouldn't have any excuse to do a ground invasion in urban environments.

Meanwhile the head of Hamas sits safe in Kuwait sipping champagne.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

jesus christ you're delusional

WamGams ,

Why would the IDF do that?

Better question, is how?

spacejunkjim ,

I agree. Totally unreasonable

FlyingSquid Mod ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

what are you going to accomplish my ruining your classmates big day

At a guess... divestment from their university's investments in companies that profit from Israeli genocide? You know, the thing they say they want to accomplish?

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

acting like fools disrupting a graduation ceremony is definitely helping them in their cause /s

FlyingSquid Mod ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

How exactly would you suggest they get the university to divest itself? Ask politely?

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

protesting on public areas or on the lawns is fine as long as they're not disrupting students, making students uncomfortable, chanting antisemitic slogans, or causing classes to be disrupted.

the protests at rutgers and brown did that just fine

FlyingSquid Mod ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

You didn't answer my question unless you think protesting on public areas on lawns in a way that doesn't disrupt students, make students feel uncomfortable or causing classes to be disrupted will achieve their goals. Will it?

As far as chanting antisemitic slogans, very little of that has been going on. As a Jew, I'm pretty damn sensitive to antisemitism and I've been paying close attention to these protests. Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You didn't answer my question unless you think protesting on public areas on lawns in a way that doesn't disrupt students, make students feel uncomfortable or causing classes to be disrupted will achieve their goals. Will it?

the protests at rutgers and brown did that.

but they also realise that the school is not obligated to listen or grant 100% of their demands

FlyingSquid Mod ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Rutgers and Brown are left-wing progressive schools. The University of Mississippi is not.

And even left-wing Columbia University was a segregated school until students occupied the same building they recently occupied and their demands were met.

Your idea that peaceful, respectful protest always gets people what they want is not borne out by history. If it were, SCOTUS would not have struck down Roe v. Wade.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

yeah, and causing a scene, committing violence, and holding up classes sure worked well for the students at university of mississippi.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

You still haven't told me what they should have done to actually achieve their goals.

You've told me they should have politely protested but the university didn't have to listen to them. Looks like the university is listening now.

So, again, what should they have done to actually achieve their goals?

Don't tell me what you wanted them to do or what you don't like them doing. Tell me how they should have gone about it in order to have a good chance of success.

madeinthebackseat ,

This story is about the University of Michigan. 😉

FlyingSquid Mod ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

What's your point?

ArmokGoB ,

If they want to achieve goals against the university administration, they should protest in a way that disrupts the administration, not the students.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Like occupying the administration building? Because that's exactly what Columbia students did. Didn't seem to achieve their goals. It did get them a bunch of violent police reprisals though.

ArmokGoB ,

No shit it got violent police reprisals. The students are just easy targets because they know that if they actually pick useful targets, they will get a police response. This entire thing is a show at the students' expense.

muntedcrocodile , (edited ) to World News in Treating Wounds, Removing Bullets: This Student Is Saving Lives in Gaza

And statistically is is also working as a hammas docter. Congratulations your helping terrorists.

WamGams ,

Even the bad guys in war deserve combat triage. As westerners, we should follow the international laws which we largely created.

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