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by Strelnikov
Sun Jan 12, 2025 8:09 am
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: Re: Scientology Thread
Replies: 22
Views: 21671

Re: Scientology Thread

Forgot to post this a week ago, but Mike Rinder, ex-Scientologist and former Office of Special Affairs* goon of David Miscavige (head of the "church") has passed away from undisclosed causes, but in 2023 it was announced that Mike had esophageal cancer. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/us/mike-rin...
by Strelnikov
Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:21 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 534
Views: 336184

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Can we all agree one thing: that WP:NOTNEWS is a stinking lie ? Because the Palisades fire is still burning as I write this, and will probably burn for a couple more days. And it is practically guaranteed that more deaths will be recorded, since whole neighborhoods were evacuated and blocked off. I...
by Strelnikov
Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:03 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
Replies: 4
Views: 2247

Re: Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors

I think this is a step too far. Instead of hacking, they should've just go to Eric Barbour and ask him for his database of Wikipedia affairs which he collected through legitimate means. Most of it has little to do with Israel, antisemitism, anti-Zionism and other topics the Heritage Foundation want...
by Strelnikov
Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Elon Musk re-offers Wikimedia 1 Billion USD to rename Wikipedia to "Dickipedia" for a year
Replies: 9
Views: 8746

Re: Elon Musk re-offers Wikimedia 1 Billion USD to rename Wikipedia to "Dickipedia" for a year

....and yet I continue to see "prominent journalists" hanging around on the thing. They have been REPEATEDLY told to stop using it as a "source".... You don't understand journalists; they are hanging around hoping somebody spills the beans on something under the rule of "where there's smoke there h...
by Strelnikov
Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:29 pm
Forum: Misc
Topic: Jeju plane crash
Replies: 1
Views: 525

Re: Jeju plane crash

The aircraft type that crashed was a Boeing 737-800, which predates the 737-MAX and their crash-creating computer firmware.

Only two survivors, which means that crash was an utter nightmare.
by Strelnikov
Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: More non-Wikipedia crap from The Blog: 5505 Lindo Paseo update
Replies: 4
Views: 4615

Re: More non-Wikipedia crap from The Blog: 5505 Lindo Paseo update

Still get the impression that all this SDSU fraternity-house business (and various other things you passed to me) connect to real-estate related corruption being "quietly" practiced by SDSU management. Which easily explains why you're on shitlists and no one returns your calls. Still think you shou...
by Strelnikov
Sat Jan 04, 2025 3:52 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Using Google Gemini AI Gems to exclude Wikipedia and Wikipedia-influenced sources entirely from information queries
Replies: 3
Views: 3294

Re: Using Google Gemini AI Gems to exclude Wikipedia and Wikipedia-influenced sources entirely from information queries

One ought to ignore the sources that influence Wikipedia - at least those providing Wikipedia's political/social content, which Wikipedia launders as public consensus. The sources for en.Wikipedia range from old editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica and a Catholic encyclopedia from the late 19th ...
by Strelnikov
Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:37 am
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto
Replies: 87
Views: 48420

Re: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto

Crypto is re-living all the lowlights of US financial capitalism before the Great Depression. Worse: they're inventing NEW ways to screw money out of people that were impossible before. Once again, this two-hour video is invaluable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g He mentions the "Axie ...
by Strelnikov
Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:08 am
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: The "San Francisco Sux" thread
Replies: 5
Views: 5217

Re: The "San Francisco Sux" thread

Bike lanes serve no purpose. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/physically-separated-bike-lanes.html Look at a map of Amsterdam; bikes and cars are on entirely different circuits of roads that do not cross thanks to car bridges. The half-assed mess of bike lanes in America are a sloppy compromise for kee...
by Strelnikov
Thu Jan 02, 2025 9:41 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 534
Views: 336184

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Yet another extremely repetitive article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asif_Kapadia Again, if this is paid edited, he should ask for a refund. This IP address is "interesting". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/94.170.106.115 I got this from an IP checker: Hostname: 94-170-106-11...