Do you see a smile or an erection?
Are you happy with your purchase or are you getting screwed?
Perception is everything.
Posted on 08/30/2025 2:29:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It’s horrid
Jimmy wales I fart in your general direction
“The Russian government conducted foreign electoral interference in the 2016 United States elections with the goals of sabotaging the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, and increasing political and social discord in the United States. According to the U.S. Intelligence Community, the Project was ordered directly by Russian president Vladimir Putin. The “hacking and disinformation campaign” to damage Clinton and help Trump became the “core of the scandal known as Russiagate”.”
No bias here.
Wokipedia. Leftopedia. Marxipedia. Crapipedia. Garbagiopedia. 1984pedia.
The late Alan Watts emphasized that individuals do not see the world as it is, but as they are, with the mind acting as a lens through which the universe is filtered.
Beliefs, memories, fears, and cultural conditioning all contribute to this lens, shaping what is emphasized or ignored.
He argued that the observer is not separate from the observed but is part of a continuous, inseparable process that creates reality through interaction. The “self” is a construct that arises from this relationship, not from a separate observer looking at a separate world.
I saw him give a lecture a few months before he died.
I see no evidence in the page history that Bethany Mandel has ever signed in to edit her own page. That's just lazy and dumb. Hey Bethany -- you can fix it.
So stop whining about the bias (the bias is real, no argument), and DO SOMETHING about it. Edit your own page, remove anything that's demonstrably false, add things that are true (with citations of course) and paint a more realistic/fair picture of yourself.
The liberals/leftists/woke/etc. people who are active on Wikipedia are going to be there. If you want to counter their falsehoods and unfair descriptions, you have to get off your ass and do it.
One should always be skeptical of everything they see or read on the Internets... Regardless of it’s source. Especially since AI has been introduced to Google searches, and AI is now being used by video artist to produce doctored and nefarious videos.
BTW - There are no parasitic growths on polar bears, where you can just simply walk up to an infected bear, pat it on the head, and then remove the parasites.
Those videos on YouTube are hilarious.
Wackypedia
Wikipedia is Soros funded crap. I have seen many examples where they put out total garbage, and yet would not allow corrections to occur. I quit donating to them a long time ago, but the leftists, and probably the CIA have kept them going. AI will put them out of business for good, I believe.
“How One’s Perception of Reality Is Perceived”
Hmmmm...
AI will destroy their business model forever.
Do you see a smile or an erection?
Are you happy with your purchase or are you getting screwed?
Perception is everything.
Editing one’s own Wiki page is tricky; and there will always be someone ready to step in and edit it again.
There are even rather militant ‘teams’ involved in editing various pages to suit a particular agenda:
Wikipedia=Marxipedia
Don’t stop, you’re on a roll!
No argument there. I view one's own Wikipedia bio page (if one has one) as a golden opportunity for everything from libel to identity theft. The price of a public bio is constant vigilance.
I'm nowhere near important or notorious enough to warrant a bio page.
OTOH, I've been a contributor to Wikipedia for 20 years. I was more active 2005-2010 than in the last 15 -- I authored a couple pages, edited a couple others. I have a user page if anyone cares to look it up. (That's not a regular Wiki page, it's in the subsection of Wikipedia users. I check it from time to time; nobody including me has touched it in a decade, in fact I should update it, LOL.)
Despite the ubiquitous liberal bias on Wikipedia, I have found it possible to argue with those who disliked something I put on a page; that's what the "Talk" pages are for. Sometimes I prevailed, other times not. Such is life in the fast lane. I suppose if one considered one's own bio page a hopeless battle, one could mark it for deletion. Wikipedia is not the only database game in town, although it's arguably one of the most widely known.
Does not compute.
“Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information” - Michael Scott 👍🏻
> Does not compute.
Sure it does. It's from the Department of Redundancy Department.
As time goes on, I trust it less and less on many subjects. I guess it’s still ok for ‘settled’ science (if such actually exists) and for a lot of history; but it’s useless for anything the least controversial, including politics and very recent history.
I’m especially interested in some things that might be considered ‘fringe’ science but which I believe have value regardless; and the ‘guerillas’ have completely destroyed Wiki for most of that. They are hell-bent on shutting down any speculative thought in those areas. (Rupert Sheldrake and bernard Haisch are cases in point.)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-24-oe-haisch24-story.html
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