Wikipedia has some good pages and some horrifically bad pages, we all know the one where some american teen made all the scots pages even though he literally didn’t speak a word of scots but there’s tons of other pages that are questionable at best and wrong at worst. The main contributors after decades are still like 80% men and most of them are in a STEM field which again shows in pages that go outside of that narrow niche. I at one point edited some wiki pages myself and you’ll literally have some guy do a fucking edit war because he thinks Somatotypes are real and you have to fight for months because you don’t have the clout of a math nerd.

And this isn’t even looking at the serious Nazi problem wiki has.

Wikipedia had decades to get their act together, they didn’t I doubt they will anytime in the future because of how their whole shitty system works.

Edit: To double down their reviewers are also shitty STEMlords who often have no qualifications but think they do, again look at any philosophy page which is just laughable. Everyone is always walking around on eggshells when it comes to how shitty some sections of wikipedia are which has resulted in festering puss filled wounds that glorify nazis and since it’s on wikipedia well then it has some credibility to it.

Alright mini rant here because reasons but

The US just can’t accept that WADA, which receives more funding from the US than from any other country in the world, isn’t biased towards Americans.

It quite literally is though I think the best example of this is currently Wesley Kitts who was popped with methylhexaneamine, basically amphetimes, and got caught. Now they say ‘Well he didn’t want to compete and did those drugs recreationally so we will only allow a suspension for one month’ which went from July 3 to August 3, weightlifting competition starts on the 10th which is really really really opportune timing. Now before you bring anything up let me again say this:

He got popped for a competition that was mandatory for qualification for the olympics. He weighed in. He really wanted to compete and got popped. And even if he didn’t attempt to stimulants like this provide more blood to skeletal muscle which in turn helps build muscle mass and this drug can and has been used to mask other performance-enhancing drugs.

The USA is getting special treatment but they are not getting enough special treatment it seems. Like they pulled this shit for a weightlifter that the last time around came 8th in his weightclass. Absolutely embarrassing show at the very least by the US weightlifting team but watching commentary on swimming, tennis and the newest ‘boxing scandal’ the USA should be heavily penalized but they won’t.

No? Why don’t you put a similar amount of effort into this convo? If you want to bring it up bring it up properly instead of this vagueposting, oh no wait if you post some dodgy website like the one you did before then I can mock you for basically doing the anti-vaxxer thing where you’ll just scour the internet for the one voice that agrees with you?

You mean like how that media outlet said ‘It’s deboonked’ even though ukranian government officials say that the people on that list were supposed to be exchanged on that day

again this is ukranian sources the list is real but they claim that there was nobody on the plane. I don’t know maybe russia just likes to play coy and as a lark sent an empty plane and was going to suprise them and then say “Gotcha man your face when you thought there was supposed to be a prisoner exchange we got you so good” but sadly they couldn’t do this practical joke because ukr shot down the plane.

Again stop this just think about it, if Russia has no one on board what are they going to do if the plane doesn’t get shot down. Like you are literally just shooting at a wall then drawing a bullseye around it, ukraine can’t be at fault so let me create a scenario where they didn’t shoot POWs. I’ll repeat it again if Ukraine doesn’t shoot down this one plane that for all they know is carrying POWs then this plane would land at the exchange place and the ukrainian side could just see that no one was on the plane and they could accuse russia of baiting an international scene of all kinds of things really. This is just not a thing russia is going to do unless they 100% know that it will get shot down which would mean that they already have tons of people working for them on the ukranian side and if they did why would they shoot down a plane with a patriot missile system instead of just destroying it.

If you apply just a tiny bit of logic all theories it all falls apart when the plan doesn’t go as planned and I think at this point Russia knows that a plan doesn’t always go the way they want it to.

Again I don’t care what the ukrainian government says they to this day don’t claim responsibility for the rocket that killed two polish farmers after pretty much every western nation told them “This one was yours.” they just continued to say “Nuh uh” and you are still going “Well I don’t know guys I’ll just trust them on this one tho” do you need to trust what the russians say? No, but you can just try to think this through and come to the conclusion that ukrainians shot down a plane carrying ukrainian POWs.

Walk me through this then.

I’m russia I’ll send a plane to Ukraine with no one on it, though I’ll claim that this plane is for a prisoner exchange. I know that the Ukranians are going to shoot down that plane because reasons.

What do I do when that plane doesn’t get shot down? Like what do I do if it lands and the supposed prisoners are not on board?

And the whole ‘this was a prisoner exchange plane’ is confirmed by both sides. Ukranians said quite literally after this happened “There was supposed to be a prisoner exchange happening today after this [the plane shotdown] it is no longer happening”

Edit: Also media has lied, hell governments lie, why are the ukranians unable to lie, after they’ve been lying about all other things like remember the rocket that killed two polish farmers and how everyone fell over themselves because ukr said wasn’t theirs and then it turned out it was theirs instead of this weirdo theory that russia was able to put an s-300 inside western ukraine to shoot at a random farm in poland to cause strive or some shit like that?

I mean thanks for making my point I guess? Creationism doesn’t come up during the first few paragraphs at all because it’s not a relevant theory, people read the first couple of paragraphs and usually just skip the rest and that’s completely fine, so let’s see what the first few paragraphs are about:

1st Paragraph: What evolution is 2nd Paragraph: Who came up with the theory of evolution. 3rd Paragraph: Competing ideas of evolutions and models and such. 4th Paragraph: LUCA, fossile records and general stuff 5th Paragraph: Ongoing study of various aspects of evolution.

So ‘dispute’ comes up after long and very good and thorough explanations of evolution like people need to scroll through a ton of other stuff before they get to creationists. Creationism isn’t presented as this grand other theory it’s waaaaay down and presented as ‘[…] but it returned in pseudoscientific form as intelligent design (ID), to be excluded once again in the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case.’

Which article do you think addresses their topic better, which article do you think has a higher overall quality? Again Wikipedia will have a generally good quality if it’s in the STEM field but once they get to the ‘soft sciences’ the quality drops like a ton and many wikipedia users will go “I know how to do physics let me just write a short article about this event I learned about in high school”.

The article in question is of a poor quality and it pushes the idea “The Soviets were just as bad as the Nazis” and we can see that effect all over the world now with the Canadian government giving a standing ovation to a SS-Nazi, Söder in bavaria being ok with ‘ex-nazi’ Aiwanger and any other place I haven’t heard about but I’m sure someone will tell me about nazi normalization happening in other ‘civilized nations’.

No that kind of language is dangerous and also false, it’d be like saying that evolution/young earth creationism is disputed. Like technically it is but the people that are disputing are arguing it out of purely ideological reasons. The Soviet famine of 1932-1933 is no longer disputed since the opening of the Soviet archives, even Robert Conquest a person that was a huge anti-communist, so anti-communist that he was in support of the contras, has walked back his Cold War language since then and has said that the soviets didn’t purposely cause it.

It’d be like if wiki had an article up about abortion and starts with “Abortions are considered illegal in x countries” and " […] whether abortions constitute murder remains in dispute", and the article listing like abortion numbers and stuff like that.

The article is not written from a neutral position because the average american has consumed a ton of cold war propaganda and a lot of Wikipedia has really bad slants because the overwhelming majority of its user base identifies as male (80+%), and works in STEM and/or are a white-collar worker, on top of that people from the USA are the biggest user group so their biases will dominate, like I say that as someone that managed to edit some articles on Wikipedia in the past and has given up because it is incredibly tedious if you are going against the STEM/USA/Male biases that come up over and over again.

Sure I’ll bite, competition is incredibly hard to attain so hard in fact that it doesn’t exist in the real world.

For one I’ll say that when we talk about competition should have the following elements:

No competitor has a large market share (A large marketshare would help them influence prices which they can use to drive out other competitors taking their market share) Almost no barrier to enter and exit the competition Consumers have perfect information

Now ignoring that ‘competitors’ will activly try to destroy perfect competitions to go for higher profits why do even consumers not want competition? Economies of Scale

In order to have perfect competition you need an ‘excess’ of competitors. So think 100 furniture factories when 10 could do that work, every factory needs to figure out their own logistics, sale and management, this means that the state of competition is less efficient than a state that is closer to a monopoly/duopoly/oligopoly with several larger companies, even if those companies suck.

This is also of course ignoring natural monopolies aka utilities.