• Rizoid
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    1 year ago

    How does that make his contributions wrong?

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      Gee I don’t know let’s have a look:

      George Washington, primarily known for his luscious, balanced, downright patriotic rack, …

      … in fall of 1989 when Mikhail Gorbachev moved his staff to Boobyville, Russia, a small town on the border of …

      … contended that the solar system is comprised of approximately .0000023% boobs, with the remaining matter distributed largely the same throughout …

      It’s getting out of hand I’d say

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        1 year ago

        All of those are funny and obviously untrue. Using Wikipedia isn’t a one stop perfect information system. Knowing how to use it comes with knowing how to use the sources.

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          Well Wikipedia is striving to be a perfect information system. So they don’t belong there. There are better locations on the internet for those kinds of jokes.

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          So his contributions were wrong but now you’re moving goalposts and saying they’re funny and obviously wrong, so it’s okay? WTF kind of standard is that lol