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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • Rizoid@programming.dev ⁨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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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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    • WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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

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