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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 93 points 1 week ago (6 children)

killing all of wikipedia is gunna be almost impossible, theres probably millions of backups around the world. here's a few links to download it, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To add to that, and to make it easier for some, you can use Kiwix!

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not only that, but MediaWiki is FOSS, and all existing content on all Wikimedia Foundation (except for a relative few kept on fair use grounds) is at most as restrictive as CC BY-SA 4.0. So you'd have whatever exists on Wikipedia currently (plus Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, etc., keeping in mind too that there are many Wikipedias besides English) plus the software that interacts with that data, other countries which haven't fully descended into fascism, the members of the Wikimedia Foundation, a bunch of pissed-off editors, and a pissed-off public... I think a new, substantially similar non-profit would crop up in the UK etc., and very few things would have to change about the content that's on the platform (where the UK has more restrictive speech laws).

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[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago
[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 36 points 1 week ago (7 children)

There's more to history than Wikipedia. Like physical books

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

Not all physical books are accessible, eg the log books of Christopher Columbus. DOGE is defunding libraries and Dept of Ed. Academics are fleeing. This collapse of knowledge is bad.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't even think of that 🤦

I've been online for too long

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Back in my day you had to buy Wikipedia. It came in like 20 massive volumes that ate up a shelf or two.

Thinking about it… I wonder what my parents did with our copies…

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I doubt Britanica has a page dedicated to Limp Bizkit.

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If you think Wikipedia is the only place that stores historical knowledge, please, start thinking about how much time you're spending online.

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[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't it make sense to just host the website from another country, outside of US jurisdiction?

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They don’t need or want to kill Wikipedia. They just need to heavily edit it. Kind of a dream come true for those pushing a narrative.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (15 children)

In my mind that would be killing it.

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[–] Migmog@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

I mean they can try to censor it but I really don't see why the wikimedia foundation wouldn't just move shop to a different country, or a different group just starts running a mirror of it. Like it might be down for a while, at which time we would have to use mirrors, but I can't see any future where its just gone forever.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

There are a lot of citations to things like Britannica from 1911 that is archived and public domain.

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