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  • Wiki > Fandom

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  • I promise as someone extensively familiar with MediaWiki who even administrates an indie wiki that this comparison makes absolutely perfect sense, hence why I posted it. And I think you're reaching to make the OP's meme seem to not make sense when it clearly does under the correct interpretation.

  • Every 1 in ~200 dollars of wealth of the US population is owned by one person

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  • This is not even close to being true. Elon Musk's net worth is $850 billion. In order for that to be 1 in 200 of all wealth in the US, it would mean US wealth would have to be $170 trillion. For comparison, the World Bank estimates the entire world's GDP in 2024 to be $111 trillion.

    He, in fact, owns a much larger share than 1 in 200. Though it's also obvious to anyone watching that most of this money is fake and comes from the fact that he holds a lot of assets which have extremely inflated valuations (i.e. are a bubble with no underlying economic justification).

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  • I think OP is trying to say that you should host your own wiki using MediaWiki instead of using Fandom. Your comment is like if someone said "You should use a Linux phone to get away from Google and Apple" and you responded with "Android uses Linux".

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  • I remember the League of Legends wiki moved away from Fandom to another wiki farm called Weird Gloop (run by the Runescape Wiki people) and the publisher of League of Legends sponsored the move. Fandom's rules say that you are not allowed to destroy the old wiki when you move, so the admins changed the font to Comic Sans on the Fandom wiki.

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    Fuck Kansas

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    Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us

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  • It's shocking similar to how the Chinese government used the excuse of "national security" to arrest the publisher of the largest anti-Beijing tabloid in Hong Kong and jail opposition politicians for "sedition".

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • The definitionition of "American" is pretty flexible. If you move here, live here, and want to consider yourself an American, then you are an American. Some loud zealots may say otherwise (typical in any country) but most Americans literally do not think about this at all.

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • I'm pretty sure all cultures adapt and learn from other cultures. That's just how human culture develops. Vietnamese takes on French favourites resulted in bahn mi and Vietnamese coffee, both of which are very good. Poor Hongkongers wanting to eat like Brits resulted in Hong Kong's famously weird "Cha chaan teng" food and Hong Kong-style milk tea. And, of course, Europeans went crazy over Mesoamerican chocolate and created a cornucopia of confectionery products made from the cacao bean.

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • Well, colonialism did bring tomatoes and potatoes to Europe.

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • I think the joke is that Americans like to adopt foods or cooking techniques from other cultures, then change them to fit local tastes. This is how a lot of "traditional American" foods came to be. There is also a stereotype that American cultural practices (gastronomy included) are "not real" or that American culture as a concept doesn't exist because it comes as a fusion of cultural practices from other countries. The meme is poking fun at people who may hold that belief.

    People also have a habit of describing the American versions of things to be "not real", even if it never really claims to be. For example, fettuccine Alfredo in the US is an adaptation of fettuccini al burro (a real Italian dish), but is described as "not real Italian food" because it isn't actually eaten in Italy. Or that orange chicken is "not real Chinese food" because it isn't eaten in China. Which, to be fair, is true, but most American diners are aware that Panda Express, Olive Garden, and Taco Bell aren't accurate representations of food eaten in China, Italy, or Mexico. They're Americanised versions of food inspired by Chinese, Italian, and Mexican cuisine.

  • BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE

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  • Americans associate the orange colour with cheese so it's more cultural than practical. Other than the fact that some cheese being orange and some not being orange helps tell apart different varieties. For example, bright orange cheese is usually young cheeses that are used to make sauce or for sandwiches. Duller orange cheeses or slightly brown ones are expected to have a more sophisticated flavour (e.g. aged longer or smoked).

  • BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE

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  • This is false, due to contaminants our air is legally considered dairy in Europe, and thus the average American actually consumes twice this quantity daily

  • Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

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  • Red paint and yellow paint both mean parking against it is forbidden. Red is typically, but not exclusively, used for fire lanes, which are spaces which must not be obstructed because they are where the fire trucks park in the event of a fire.

    Additionally, in the Los Angeles area, green paint is used to indicate that parking is allowed there, but there is a low time limit (such as 30 minutes).

  • Landmark trial accusing tech giants of harming children with addictive social media begins

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  • America really has a litigation culture, not because people are particularly fond of lawsuits, but because problems which are generally solved by legislative enactments or actions by regulatory bodies in other countries, aren't in the US, and thus the only way to find out who is right is to go to court.

  • Walking is canceled

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  • Imagine paying $100 to drive a car there just to have to ride a bus anyway 💀

  • Walking is canceled

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  • Surely this means that the hotel or the stadium will be providing a free shuttle bus service, right?

    Right...?

  • "lessons learned"

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  • LLM: $20 per day and 49104503 gallons of water

    Clock app on cell phone: free

  • Starlink 'catastrophe' for Russia as forces lose access across front line in Ukraine

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  • What replacement services are available? The American service actually works. Making your own would cost an order of magnitude more (as your contractors mysteriously "lose" half the money and bill the defence ministry 10 million roubles for "pens") and a decade of your time.

    Maybe they could hire Chinese firms to do it but I think China has a tendency to keep its military technology to itself.

  • Elon Musk will be deposed along with DOGE staffers over USAID dismantling

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  • That would be a dream come true. AI agents are not legal entities with the right to own or inherit property. Therefore, all of his stuff has no legal owner. By the principle of escheat, it now belongs to the State.

    Sadly, I doubt Elon's lawyers are quite this dumb.

  • Elon Musk will be deposed along with DOGE staffers over USAID dismantling

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  • I remember when Musk was the cool electric car guy and not the chief accomplice to the dismantling of Western democracy.

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    Tesla repays San Jose pie shop owner after last-minute cancellation

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    Capital One-Discover merger may face stiff antitrust review in Washington

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    It is a huge failure in communication to pretend that distro upgrades are entirely different versions of the operating system. It does nothing but make Linux seem more complex than it actually is.