But the donations are only necessary because of inflated salaries. It’s like saying we have to pay this pastry chef because the pastry chef loves to eat their own cake. They’re just feeding themselves.
The cost of server infrastructure is comparatively tiny so if they’d run it lean it’d have enough cash to last ages already. Also posting a banner on their site with massive reach isn’t exactly rocket surgery.
I know there are worse things but I strongly dislike nonprofits wasting donation money.
on the one hand they make some valid points on the other hand it’s a little disgusting how much wikipedia execs get payed and how sweaty they get when they worry about having to pay content moderators. currently they just pocket most of the donations they get but with increased running costs that would get harder.
don’t get me wrong, wikipedia is an important project and they deserve fair compensation but grabbing $700k per year for managing it seems a bit steep eh? it’s not like they’re forging new business strategies and conquering markets. they have a very simple concept and just keep it running. a post it note on the ceo door with “keep going lads” on it might outperform them and save some money.
Put mercenaries on the list. They get hired to guard some excavation. A chill job the recruiter told them.
Lara overhears them talk about going home to their families as she sneaks up and brutally murders them with her ice axe one by one until the ruins are flooded with blood. It’s all self defense.
Move fast and break things is a motto that works fine when you’re a silicon valley fuckboi talking about shitty apps. Less so when it’s kids that are being broken. Then again it’ll work well for an angry mob going from billionaire door to billionaire door.
I mean the comparison used to be Wikipedia vs finding the right literature in a library. Now it’s mostly Wikipedia vs AI that sometimes makes things up including sources. The real degradation happens over time though. People using AI to write papers which then get fed into AI as a source. It already is but will become increasingly hard to verify how reliable the information is that you find.
This all happens in the background of short video clips dominating the engagement of young people. We have students at our school who aren’t even capable of using AI to cheat and they don’t care either. They saw some tiktoks telling them once they’re 18 they can get rich with betting or real estate (despite having no capital) so why do homework? I’d rather they trust wikipedia blindly than what they currently do.
First aid is some random person that did a short class 10 years ago.
Second aid is a doc that studied for years but still doesn’t have all the answers.
Third aid is when you call the dev. They won’t pick up.
Different country, similar politics: we got refugee kids rooting for the far right (full on Nazi) party thinking they’re hating with them.
If I had known how bad it’d get I would’ve chosen a different field to work in. Sure, I can avoid it in my private life but on the job it’s like I’m in some kind of hostage situation.
“Oh hi there customer! You know our product your users are accustomed to will only come as a subscription from now on and it’ll also be really bad and force full screen ads. We’ll push two updates per day because our unpaid interns are so agile. Bugs? Oh, no, we call those ‘micro disruptions’. They’re a feature but don’t cost extra! How much the license costs? Well, how much do you have? Yes, it’ll be that much.”
It seems like their maths won’t check out. They already estimate 66% of current residents to move on to other facilities (guess they don’t have licensed care takers as relatives to take them all in), yet seem to calculate with saving all the costs. Ultimately they’ll push more work towards the other facilities without any intention of financing additional staff which will not work in the long run.
You’re winning so much that you’re starting to say oh no it’s too much winning, ah, please stop.
Those aren’t slaves! No, no. Those are foreign atholeets.
It do be like that. Many of them get repeated till they reach a critical point and everyone is sick of them. Some of them are harder to tolerate than others though. I can deal with people ‘checking notes’ here and there but those who use “literally” as every second word in their sentences awaken a primal rage inside of me that is yearning for rock to split skull. Luckily that trend isn’t as prevalent as it used to be back in the day.
When the end times are here and you find yourself bored you can come by my cave and check my collection of cool rocks and sticks.
I’m just glad that as I get older I’m more content with simple things. I’d be ok giving up most tech things and I say that while working in IT myself.
I remember back in the day in history class we’d discuss if murdering a tyrant is morally wrong and how it should be treated by the law. The class pretty much agreed if you 360 quick tomahawk someone who causes millions of deaths it’s fair game.
Reminds me of TV remotes that worked with sound. Both before my time but very interesting to read about.
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Fighting the good fight elbow deep in a tub of off brand ice cream.
I’M DOING MY PART!
Step 1: Feed the rich with fancy vertically farmed strawberries till they’re fat and juicy
Step 2: eat the rich.
It’s a simple plan. It’s a good plan.