“You seem deeply upset”

nope I forget you’re here until you comment again and I have to correct you all over again.

correcting people is fun for me, so this isn’t particularly upsetting.

“your opinion”

not my opinion, dozens of accurate numbers from two articles, one of those many numbers in one of those articles you have picked out to focus on.

One of the articles overestimated a budget by 100 million, four instead of three, that’s not going to bother me too much.

you seem deeply upset by one source’s overestimate.

“that number seems preposterous…a totally bogus number detached from reality…”

yeah who the heck could write four instead of three?

how could anyone make that mistake? they must be nuts!

adding one number in hundreds of millions of dollars of asset valuation?

how could that even happen?

guess we’ll never know…

“giving some sort of response…”

you keep whining about receiving a response (desperate), but you still haven’t asked a question.

do you know how responses work? (that was a question. see the curly thing at the end? there’s another!)

go ahead, check your comment. not a single question, you’re just rehashing you’re earlier mistakes I have to correct all over again.

which is fun.

I’m down.

more than? how?

The apple shape is pretty indicative for me.

judging by your username, you share certain similarities with Bruce Willis.

and he seems to forget who he is these days, so yeah you might actually be Bruce Willis.

no, I’ve never heard covid victims called “those left behind”, that is a rather morbid bit of prose from your part of the world.

“I’m honestly curious what point you think I’m responding to…”

are you? you don’t sound very curious. you haven’t asked a single question.

“You did actually use grossly inaccurate financial data”

your make-believe is showing.

"he means the ones just staying at home. Not the ones covid killed. "

as far as I can tell, yes.

you call people killed by covid “those left behind”?

you seem to be extrapolating far-off tangential after-effects of a vague dystopian future not based on the current state of travel.

yes, maybe someday everything will be worse.

but then, maybe someday everything will be better.

as for right now, travel is objectively easier for everybody than it has been in a very long time, maybe ever.

We can start with that.

yup

overall, it seems to be getting easier to travel, with longer-term visas being offered and most visas offered through online applications.

there are more routes for legal permanent residency in countries as well these days, although i prefer itinerance.

I think you’re talking about permanent residency, which is inherently more bother than living somewhere else or traveling full-time.

“Why” was a typo, fixed it.

Don Quixote is a famous literary figure who creates monsters out of his own failing perception and then attacks them.

he’s an analogy of you fabricating points I haven’t made so you have something to struggle against.

leaving my home country for the first time.

all the “immutable facts of life” are a plane ticket way from becoming weird rituals or disagreeable foreign affairs.

those left behind

Wow, you really like make believe huh?

pretending I said things I didn’t and then arguing against them isn’t the gotcha you apparently think it is, Don Quixote.

but if it makes you feel better, float your own boat.

“a two year old opinion piece on it,”

it’s the first article that popped up with reliable numbers, but there are plenty of articles criticizing the amassed wealth of wmf while they’re asking for money every year.

unsurprisingly, the WMF reports that WMF are spending their money responsibly and are barely managing to sustain themselves, while every journalist that looks into it confirms that WMF have plenty of money and have not needed to do these fundraising drives for years, and will not have to for decades.

$100 million is purely cash on hand, it doesn’t take into account any otger WMF assets.

it’s nice that you’re excited about Wikipedia, and it can be a useful resource, but these are not contentious facts.

Wikipedia has plenty of money, they spend it irresponsibly, and every year they are taking and millions of dollars that they add to that stack.

important to note, Wikipedias value to the end users is contributed two and maintained by unpaid volunteers.

here’s another good article;

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-foundation-donate.html

I made sure it was also 2 years old because I think it’s funny your ageist about facts.

I’ll talk to you in 50 years and we can settle this.

I still dual boot with Windows for gaming, so I can’t comment on the next gaming as much, but I will say that LTSC is everything that it seems to be (or not be).

Windows without any bullshit, I used it for years.

I use windows solely for ease of gaming so I haven’t bothered to replace the stock, but if you do keep using Windows, LTSC is definitely the way to go.

as far as the articles going around, Linux is catching up but is not yet as effortless less as Windows for gaming specifically.

nope

yup, I have a lot of time so I read a lot.

If you don’t have a lot of time, don’t sweat it.

“Dragonball is based on the old Chinese myth of Journey to the West”

I never made the connection between goku’s peculiarities and journey to the West, that’s interesting, thanks.

I don’t anymore.

they do not need your money, and it’s disingenuous of them to imply they do.

The manipulative aspect of their annual fundraisers is very unsettling.

here are some numbers from 2022:

https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-next-time-wikipedia-asks-for-a-donation-ignore-it/

they have at least 400 million in reserves now and the estimate is $10 million a year to maintain the site and pay all their employees.

their higher executives are each paid hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

they’re not struggling to keep the lights on for the next half century.

The youngest age of consent in the US is currently 16, unrestricted, but 14 if you’re within a few years of the 14-year-old.

I didn’t know the majority of the US age of consent was 16, I thought that was a European thing.

but only 12 states have the age of consent at 18.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States

from 15, apparently