While I agree with the rest, "your values are who you are" sounds very reductive. We are not one single aspect, not just our values, or thoughts, or emotions, or actions, but the dynamic system of them all.
Sorry, your reasoning sounds ridiculously arbitrary and elitist. Yes, reading a single wiki page won't give the same depth of knowledge as studying the topic for years, but it's still increased knowledge compared to what the reader had before. By your reasoning nobody learns anything before they go to university? Because in what other educational environment you would read multiple books' worth of information about a single subject...
I feel like you're nitpicking. For physical activities personal experience is obviously best, but for most topics, reading about them is the same as learning about them. Except for PE and art, nothing I learnt in school was through direct experience. Also how is anyone supposed to learn about stuff that cannot be experienced personally, like history or space?
You're right! But from what I could find, the fake version started circulating less than a year after the original, so I honestly can't remember which one I've seen more over the years. I didn't even notice there were multiple versions lol.
Yeah, I never used it, except to follow links from lemmy/reddit, but even those acquaintances of mine that did use it, gradually stopped since Musk took over, with the last few leaving it around a year ago.
(My vocally pro-LGBT workplace also switched to other platforms bc our engagement noticeably dropped around that time. Either due some Musk-induced algorithm shenanigans or just users leaving in droves.)
I hated chemistry in school, because it was teaching us irrelevant shit like the electron structure of atoms. But when I'm interested in something, I'll look it up, and may get lost in a Wikipedia wormhole for hours about the most random topics. (some recent ones were: image file formats, the history of feminism, Serengeti National Park)
Imho the difference all lies in when knowledge is shoved down our throats vs exploring it out of curiosity.
it involves a caretaker routinely jerking off the dolphin she lived with, then the project got shut down, and the dolphin was kept in so bad circumstances that it committed suicide after a few weeks
I didn't downvote, but I always skip reading their comments. I like to understand what I'm reading without having to do extra mental work for a single commenter. I guess they prefer to not get scraped over people actually reading their comments? 🤷
just set it to the January 1st of whichever year would make you 13 when you registered your account 😏 (I remember a platform deleting the account of someone when they, years later, revealed that they were under 13 when they registered)
Indeed! A few years ago I saw a video about how grading companies and auction houses collude to push up the price of old videogames, because they both earn a % of the auction price.
Google never thought to email their customers about this?? Why tf do I have to learn about this 2 months after the announcement, from social media...