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  • It does when you’re acting like you know better than the protesters, yet have done nothing that is actually better. Actually, you have not even proven that you’ve done anything even on par with them.

    Everyone know keyboard warriors have a point, yet everyone also know they are keyboard warrior because they lack the courage to do what they expect others to do. In that sense, you are just a hypocrite unless you prove yourself to not be one. Your use of specific terms to explain things don’t change the fact that nobody listens to people who tell others to do things they are not willing to do themselves. Talk is cheap, even if it’s based on the truth.








  • Where did that download come from? Who compiled all those written information into something that can be downloaded by you?

    Try making a compilation of information directly through torrents from scratch and tell me how far you get with that. I’m sure you’ll find that most people do not want to go through that hassle.

    You’re severely underestimating the value of making it easy to compile the information in the first place. And again, those information do not need to be compiled to wikipedia by the writers. They do so because of the value provided by the service.

    The question is, do you think the writers will get paid any better by you sharing their work through torrents than through wikipedia? I don’t think so. If you actually cared about this, go and donate to the writers instead of devaluing the contribution of wikipedia in compiling these information.


  • The articles don’t get written without the servers running, and the writers are not forced to write them. Wikipedia is a free service to share information, so writers are using it as a service, not as an employee. They could have easily not used wikipedia.

    Saying they should be paid is like saying developers should be paid for sharing their code on Github. What you actually want is to follow the FOSS model and donate to the Wikipedia writers directly, not expect the foundation to pay people who use their service for free.








  • Even if I don’t look for it, US politics is everywhere on this site. If you feel that non-US citizens shouldn’t talk about US politics, then stop talking about it so much and assuming every random person you talk to is from the US.

    Even as an outsider, I could see the inevitable loss of the Democrats in 2024 from the way their most zealous supporters act. The question is why aren’t you people seeing it? This is the why blindly defending a political party doesn’t do you much good. You become detached from reality. So detached in fact that you’re still doing the same thing after your party already lost the election.