• NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world
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    36 minutes ago

    I told myself during my undergrad that if I ever made enough money, I would support a handful of causes. Wiki is on top of that list. I donate $20 monthly so don’t feel bad if you aren’t able to yet. It takes a village. One day when I’m on a fixed income, someone else can make that lavish $20/month donation :⁠-⁠)

    Honestly thought, I need to reevaluate if I can give more. Thanks for reminding me Apartheid Musk!

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    18 hours ago

    Wikipedia is arguably the best website on all of the internet.

    Like, if you wanted one website to survive the apocalypse or whatever, it’s probably Wikipedia.

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      18 hours ago

      This man did more for Wikipedia than those annoying Wikipedia messages could ever do

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    18 hours ago

    I had an uncle who was a rabid Trump supporter. Ultranationalist, White Supremacist and Bible thumper. (its even weirder that my uncle is a Canadian living in the US who refuses to get US citizenship).

    he moved to Texas because he wanted to get away from the “morally bankrupt liberals” in California, moved to Texas because Elon went there. I think the only person he loved more than Trump was Elon.

    then suddenley, one day he told the family that he wasn’t following Elon anymore, and that Elon is evil. I’d really like to hear what he has to say about it. Except there is zero contact because the guy is so deranged he made death threats against my mother. So we’re keeping him at length and not giving him any sense of welcome that he can come back into our lives, or worse yet, come visit physically.

    still, would be interesting to see into the mind of a lunatic.

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    18 hours ago

    I like Wikipedia but I’m still not going to donate. They’ve got many millions and a bunch of millionaires on the board. They don’t need my money!

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      14 hours ago

      These millionaires may or may not do anything for Wikipedia.

      They don’t make profit, there is no risk of “over donating”

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          They are board members of a non profit that is performing splendidly. If the options are to either pay them more or lose them to the private sector I say jjst pay them more.

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          7 hours ago

          These people would earn orders of magnitude more in the for profit industry.

          I would really like to retain them given that they are clearly doing a pretty amazing job

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    23 hours ago

    For those of you with workplace donation platforms, Wikipedia/wikimedia are usually registered and eligible for company match, so is the web archive.

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      “All my ex’s are woke! My child, who hates me, is woke! The IRS is Woke! The advertisers who don’t want to give me money are woke! Woo oooohhh ooooh, everything I hate is woke~” 🎶

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          “How can someone I told to fuck off don’t want to give me money!? That’s literally communism!!”

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    Runs platform based on lies and hates platform based on truth. Check notes yeah that about sums it up.