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Wikipedia Spends $31 Million on "Racial Equity" in 2024
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every day wikipedia adds to the mountain of regret i experience for giving them $5 a decade ago
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back when i was a male feminist, i went to a workshop on how to add marginally important women's biographies to wikipedia
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There's no coming back from that
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please tell me you got kitty from that at least
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does getting divorce r*ped count?
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That's gayer than AIDS
Significantly gayer
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Me too brother. Me too.
Frick you jimmy. Stop emailing me.
Alright m8 it was just banter no need to write a short novel ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
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I used to donate to Wikipedia and do chargebacks because I found the popups annoying
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I couldn't resist Jimmy Deen's soulful eyes, or whatever his name is.
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vandalize them so hard a paid janny will waste their paid time on dealing with you
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Send them letter with poop smeared on it.
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I've forgotten to cancel subscriptions, but I still feel bad about donating $2/mo for 3yrs to Wikipedia more than any other one once I found out what they actually spend it on.
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I once gave $2 to Wikipedia. I regret it more than the time I got scammed $1,500.
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How did you get scammed for 1500?
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I collect coins. I once purchased an NGC graded 1 oz gold coin on Ebay that was inside the plastic holder. At the time of purchase and shortly after I thought everything was fine, especially because the barcode on the coin holder worked and took me to the NGC website and the verification pics they took when grading the coin matched what I had in hand. Note that because the coin was locked up in plastic I couldn't properly hold it in my hand, all I had to go by were visuals and they were good. Normally when I buy coins on ebay I do all sorts of tests to verify authenticity but hey, this coin was in an NGC slab and they surely knew what they were doing, right? Best other test I could do was weight the holder and see whether that matched the weight of the coin + the known weight of an NGC coin slab That test was passed completely fine so I was feeling pretty decent overall.
Fast forward a year or so and I decided to take the gold coin out of the holder to move it into a display frame I have specifically for gold coins. The second I had it out and in my hand I knew something was wrong. The weight and everything felt fine but gold as a metal has a certain softness to it that this coin was completely lacking (you can try this at home by holding a piece of lead vs a piece of iron, just by feel you can distinguish the metals). Instead it felt hard and jagged, more like how Tungsten feels rather than gold. I immediately tried the ping test for gold (gold pings in a very specific way) and the coin failed that too. The next day I took it in to a nearby jeweler for an XRF test who told me immediately that what I had was almost completely tungsten with a very thin layer of gold plating on top. Of course by now it had been too long to get a refund on ebay and anyways, when I looked for the seller they had deleted their account and disappeared into the ether...
So yeah, that's how I got scammed out of $1,500 and took more than a year to discover it. I also searched more about these fake coin holders because they really are super convincing if looks are all you have to go off of. There were some articles online about how there are special counterfeiting operations in china these days that purchase a legit coin, get it graded, then make thousands of copies of the coin in gold plated Tungsten (which has a very similar density to gold so has the same weight), copy the NGC slab almost exactly (biggest tells were that the fake slabs sometimes had more air bubbles on the coin description label than genuine ones) which they sell off to unsuspecting people like me who think they're getting the real deal.
I've now super soured on the idea of getting graded coins at all, I trust myself much more than these grading companies and now whenever I get a coin in a slab I immediately open it and verify what I have is genuine (regrading costs like $25, not a big deal). The articles I read mentioned this coin bait isn't even the biggest scam China pulls in the precious metals area: these days they produce fake 10 oz bars of gold (current value of genuine ones around $25,000) where to avoid detection by standard methods they use a tungsten core covered with around $10,000 of gold in a layer so thick none of the standard methods people use are able to detect it (If you held it it would feel soft like a genuine 10oz gold bar). They then sell these bars containing only $10k gold to unsuspecting people who think they are getting around $25k worth of gold for full price, and the buyer may well never end up the wiser to the fact that they have been scammed until decades down the line when they try to sell..
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RIP
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dont buy pms, stack sats instead
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It was
@JingleWhales realizing he could get more than just two dollars
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Sounds suspiciously close to the amount those crypto scam emails I get saying that they've been watching my goon sessions with a RAT on my computer.
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yeah i get those as well. Recently i got a more sophisticated one that seemed like it was sent from my own mail adress, but it's still obviously just a bluff.
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I used to donate to them and I was pretty mad when I found out that the grifting they do on the site has like zero relevance to what they actually spend the money on.
Tbh it's one of a series of things that red pilled me on charities in general. I refuse to donate to anything as a matter of principle at this point.
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charities are just hobbies for wives of rich men and people who want to hang out with important people at gala dinners
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Get involved in a church and you'll realize that most charities are just decent middle class people who want to help people.
God bless.
Edit: meant to respond to top comment but this still applies even if you're shitposting.
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That's ground-level charities making a one-on-one difference. The bigger they get and/or the more distance from the problem, the worse they're likely to get.
Though some small ones will be a Trans LifeLine right out the gate.
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Good charities are supposed to be lifelines for everyone but you have a point about distance. Anything international is usually devoured by grifters and politics.
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Trans LifeLine was a specific charity for running a suicide hotline specifically for trans people. Except it had a handful of untrained volunteers who wouldn't answer the phone and the whole thing was used as a personal piggybank by the founders.
They got something around $300,000 before being kicked out, and they have given their word they'll pay it back within ten years, aka they got away with it because the new leaders are using it for the same purpose, just less obviously. The quality remains the same.
The point was that some small charities are scams right from the start, but also I like bringing it up because progs love to virtue-signal by raising money for it and never care that it doesn't do anything with the money, it just sounds good. But church charity is Christofascist, so they'd rather donate to the known scam.
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The trans lifeline is based af
Every other suicide hotline is run by snitches that will instantly call the police and have you involuntarily committed to a mental hospital
The sole purpose of these so-called hospitals is not to improve the lives of their so-called patients, but to protect the neurotypical from the mentally defective and grift for the pharmaceutical industrial complex
These asylums strip their wards of all bodily autonomy and forcibly inject them with antipsychotic drugs, chemically lobotomizing them for the crime of having unneedful thoughts
The smear campaign against the trans lifeline is disinformation funded by these fascist institutions
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How can I donate money to these hospitals?
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Thank Jah they do this. Involuntarily committal for all schizos!
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true like food kitchens, stuff that actually helps ppl
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A couple of times, I've bought a schwack of toys and donated them to the food bank at Christmas. What's the point of Christmas if you're not getting any presents?
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y can't wikipedia just stick to being wikipedia?? i hate the endless growth of all services even like non-profit ones
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Why do u hate capitalism?
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y do u love cancer?
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Because cancer funds my research
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"research"
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Wdym?
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At some point all the guys sit there with their finished product and think what can we do now
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Good. I hope wikipedia spends every cent that idiots donate to them on grift-earnings like DEI, junkets, and liquor.
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They do. They could put a single years donations in a trust and run wikipedia forever off of it. They don't though because why not e-beg every year.
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They could?
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Liquor is probably the least wasteful of the things you mentioned.
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So little? They can do better, perhaps by donating directly to kweens on cashapp
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No need, they only donate to queens who have jobs working in DEI grifting. You have to be thinking big to get the real bucks, not just plugging in your Twitter bio.
Real grifting takes a lot of work.
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Wikipedia will spend money on anything but the editors, who produce all of Wikipedia's content.
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Are you saying….they do it…for free?
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There was a fat frick who was responsible for 1000s of articles. I'd rather the BiPocies get gibs than that smug c*nt.
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As a guy that never donates to anything online, I'm feeling pretty justified in my position.
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I felt slightly bad for a few seconds last time I ignored their begging bowl. I feel violated.
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this guy sucks
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Source?
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Yikes, that little?
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I can't handle more than a minute of the breathless anger of how chuds like this talk. Okay buddy, we get you're excited and upset, but don't have a fricking aneurysm over something you have no control over.
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Snapshots:
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archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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