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[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 112 points 10 months ago

a new popular front is forming:

[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

My God, this is amazing.

[-] YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 104 points 10 months ago
[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago

"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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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 101 points 10 months ago

"The Wikimedia Foundation wishes to thank Elon Musk for our sudden large rush of donations..."

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 35 points 10 months ago

I donate each time anyways, will double it this time. May Elon choke on an orange hog this Christmas.

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[-] raoul@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 10 months ago

Never donated before today. Thanks elon I guess 👍

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Me neither but just did.

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Yeah it's been a while since I last donated and there is some light controversy around how Wikipedia goes about asking for money but I still believe in their mission.

So fuck you Musk, have a twenty Wikipedia.

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[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia. I have now donated to Wikipedia.

[-] Joeffect@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

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

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 49 points 10 months ago

Because any information at all is woke.

This is the idiocracy way.

[-] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago

I am a monthly donor to Wikipedia, because I think it's an incredibly important resource. Elon Musk can fuck all the way off.

[-] Kaput@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Wikipedia and it's brethren, sharing knowledge are the planet best hopeas a greatbequalizer. We are at the information age, information is power just as much as iron and steam have been in the past.

[-] fraksken@infosec.pub 38 points 10 months ago
[-] arni@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

After reading your coment I've donated 10 euro ; )

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[-] FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

I had been clicking past the donate reminder so far this year. Thanks for the reminder to get it done today before the new year.

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 36 points 10 months 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.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 31 points 10 months ago

Well, I wasn't sure about donating this year, this sealed the deal for me. What an asshole.

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[-] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

Huh. I had never donated to Wikipedia, and here I am...

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[-] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

He looks like he starts all his announcements with an unironic "fellow humans".

Seriously, is he some kind of meat puppet controlled by incel aliens?

[-] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Been a while since I donated. Thanks for the reminder, Elon.

[-] eyjohn@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

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

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I am beginning to think Satan will turn out less evil than this monster.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago

Oh, great reminder, I didn't donate in a few months, gonna send them a lil Santa coffee gift right now.

[-] SirMaple__@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago
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[-] GetOn@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the reminder. Just donated!

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I usually donate a low amount, but I'm going to drop a $50 this year now. We know this asshat's threats are random, but we can't risk it.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Dude has Resting Sauhagin Face.

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[-] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months 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.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 14 points 10 months ago

So, how many GB to save a complete copy of Wikipedia?

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

It’s a 19GB download that expands to 86GB for only the current article versions in English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There's a zim for kiwix(an offline client for wiki sites) that's around 100GB with photos.

Latest is updated to January 2024.

https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

You can always get the book version.

27 pages on Gwen Stefani alone!

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[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 months ago

I dunno, doesn't seem like the conservapedia shithole likes elon much either.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Elon_Musk#Controversies

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago
[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I'm going to donate even harder now

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months 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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[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

God what a fucking moron

[-] Zier@fedia.io 9 points 10 months ago

Xelon is nothing but a drug addict, and he's fuckin' nutzzz!

[-] VerilyFemme 8 points 10 months ago

You know what? I'm upping my monthly donation.

[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Just donated

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago
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