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All human advancement was created by nerds. Spears were invented by weaklings too slow to kill with their bare hands. Fire was tamed by the people who were scared of the dark
I think the post makes a point important in modern capitalism: people will create "value" for free because they can, they care, they want to, it's a challenge. Capital and/or the threat of starvation is not actually always necessary for people to be "productive". Ego, boredom, altruism, adventure, these are also traits of humanity besides survival and greed.
I think fire was tamed because the food poisoning killed those without it. We are supposed to just sleep at night.
Assuming primitive people would make the connection between gross food and people dying.
https://ebookslib.org/sf/12898-eurema-s-dam.html
Fun little story that makes my point.
I donated to wikipedia. Then I found out their scummy biases towards anything outside the anglosphere. Now I want my money back.
Okay, this is going to need elaboration.
Could you specify? I've heard similar comments aimed against people not accepting Russian propaganda. But I imagine with the common user base, you would get some very anglocentric implicit bias just because that's what they know.
One would expect articles not in the anglosphere to not have much input from the anglosphere, but it ain't so.
One common feature is the credit given for the origin of words, even when it contradicts itself.
For a rather silly example, take the word 'achar', which means 'pickle' in many south asian languages. It is labeled as persian in origin. The fact that old avestan is bastardized sanskrit aside, articles linked on the same page contradict this. One such is as follows:
The article on 'acar', the south-east asian version of pickle, clearly states that it is directly descendent from the south-asian terminology. The time of spread is in the 200-800AD period, much before Persian spread to the Indian sub-continent with the Islamic invasions in the 1000-1300AD period.
I have identified more than a dozen such cases of glorifying invaders from just a cursory search. Apparently, the west has trouble coming to terms with the fact that civilization can evolve natively, without contributions from disruptive external forces.
It's crazy. The current CEO openly participates in US state department briefings.
What I find amazing is that some people are so dedicated to Wikipedia that they literally and consider vandals for how much information they put in.
That's what it should've been. In reality anything even remotely political on it is heavily biased towards imperial core and NATO countries, and against their geopolitical rivals.
This happens because most of these "nerds" are also westerners and rate their own outlets as more reliable, thus enforcing western propaganda.
You bring up an interesting point. There are opposing opinions on everything if you go deep enough into the topic, even in STEM fields too.
It'd be interesting to see a Wikipedia that provides pages on the same topic that present each opinion. So the base/overview page on the topic states the summaries of each opinion with a link for further reading. Each opinion page states there are many opinions on the topic and it just presents one. Each page then suggests for further reading, view the base/overview page where the user can read about other opinions on the topic.
Lemmy.ml
Sur-fucking-prise.
Least braindead .world user
Wawa NATO
Russian imperialism is the best recruiter NATO ever had.
Well uh, username checks out ig
tell me why do you wanna be ruled my an dictatorship
You are currently already living in a bourgeois dictatorship (getting to choose between two right-wing imperialists is not "democracy", whatever that means).
If you're in an imperial core country, this dictatorship prefers funding a genocide over meeting its own citizens' needs.
sorry incorrect we have more than 2 parties that can win in Estonia you scallywag
Tankies gonna tank.
Liberals gonna lib
political compasses gonna political compass
According to that dogshit test I'm also a lib apparently lmao
lemmy.world user
Sur-fucking-prise lol
Wikipedia was founded by a self-admitted ancap who supported "israel's" bombing of Gaza in 2018, its most prolific editor is a fascist. The vast majority of its editors are indeed westerners with an extreme pro-imperial core bias, particularly the US and UK.
Hell, the current CEO literally attended a US state department briefing in 2017 with a former CIA/NSA director and is currently on the advisory board for the CIA offshoot OTF.
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