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Now is a good time to flood Wikipedia with donations. For the first time in my life, i have just donated to them and will do so again. You can do it too for a minimum of €2, no requirement for recurring donations or any nonsense.

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[-] Brimos@lemmy.world 229 points 1 year ago

All of the wrong people have money.

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

Or money turns them into all of the wrong people.

[-] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 59 points 1 year ago

Bullshit. They were born this way mainly because they were born rich.

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[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago

No. Assholes are assholes, and Elon is just an asshole with money.

Compare this man child to a billionaire like Yvon Chouinard, founder of the company Patagonia, and you'll understand that money doesn't change good people.

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[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 136 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia should counter by offering Elon $4 to go towards paying off his massive hole from buying Twitter. 😂

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 15 points 1 year ago

He doesn't need to pay. Twitter is already worth less than the debt, if he continues to break that company apart there'll he no reason to even consider paying the debt off.

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[-] alienanimals@lemmy.world 116 points 1 year ago

Downvote Musk spam.

The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.

[-] nadram@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Sorry i wasn't in the loop when we decided to stop talking about the town clown. I guess I'll stop being an idiot now. Thanks for the advice.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 100 points 1 year ago

wikipedia foundation's financials are solid, stable, and healthy.

how's twitter doing lately, elon?

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[-] Teon@kbin.social 100 points 1 year ago

We already have Dickopedia elon, it's called twitter and YOU paid $44 billion for it.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 81 points 1 year ago

Indicator 9,876,872,820,111 that that fucker has more money than anyone should ever have.

[-] paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

There's not one single person in the world who should own a thousand million dollars, never mind hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars.

The pure existence of billionaires is unethical and immoral - doesn't matter whether they're being stupid and fascist in public, or quietly pulling strings and bending society to their will in the background.

[-] OrnatePotato@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Tangential, but I've always wondered why in English 10^9 is one billion. 10^6 is one million. Twice as many zeroes should be one billion. Three times as many, one trillion, etc.

[-] logi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Only in English is this weird naming system used and originally only in American English. You can put it in the pile over there with the miles and pounds and other oddities.

Other languages have milliard between million and billion, billiard after billion etc.

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[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From memory, when I was a kid, it used to be that a billion was 10^12, but I think most of the world changed at some point to adopt the American billion of 10^9.

Edit: wiki article that discuss a little of this

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[-] Taco2112@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago

So he’s offering that money to name it after himself?

I’m not even clicking on that link, I never click on stuff with that turd’s name on the headline, just wanted to make the joke.

[-] GONADS125@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Don't think he needs that domain when he's already got:

FigurativelyHumongousButLiterallyTinyDick.com

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[-] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago
  1. Take Money.

  2. Re-Name to Dickipedia.

  3. Re-Name back to Wikipedia.

  4. Laugh about Musk.

  5. Profit.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago

bold of you to assume elon would pay up

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[-] Conyak@lemmy.tf 69 points 1 year ago

More evidence to support taxing the fuck out of billionaires. No one needs that much money.

[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 68 points 1 year ago

I am so, so tired of this tedious man child.

[-] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 62 points 1 year ago

I'm starting to think this guy isn't very wise about spending his money.

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago

Or just in general.

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[-] rawn@feddit.de 50 points 1 year ago

He's trying to distract from the probe into Tesla's range. It's working.

[-] PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago
[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 1 year ago

There's a federal probe into Tesla lying about their vehicle range. He's throwing a fit and closing that it could cause great harm to the brand.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

That man child has the emotions and humour of a little kid, I swear.

[-] Big_Boss_77@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

Never donated to Wikipedia before... this shit changed that in a hurry.

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[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Maybe Elon should just donate a billion because he supposedly cares about free information so much?

[-] amio@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

Oh, but you see, information is really only free if it's something Musk agrees with.

[-] MrFlamey@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

I offer Elon $1 to change his name to Doge McCumStain. I hope he will accept my generous offer.

[-] ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I'll offer him $10. As a measurement of a percentage of my personal wealth I am offering double what Elon is offering.

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[-] Maddie@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago

Why do we let this man-child have billions of dollars?

[-] the_q@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Because our capitalist system requires psychopaths to function and rewards psychopathy.

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[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 year ago

To everyone thinking Wikipedia should go with the deal and then change the name back.

It's like taking money for doing d*ck tatoo on forehead and then doing laser removal, humiliation. No foundation or company should show they are craving for money by doing anything someone would pay for.

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[-] atempuser23@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

He paid 44bln and hasn't even changed twitter.com yet. Don't expect him to pay up.

[-] s_s@lemmy.one 21 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a good idea for a wikipedia page. Put Elon's picture on it.

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

For shits and giggles, the Foundation should absolutely get lawyers to put together a binding agreement to this effect and send it to Elon to sign.

… and then watch him run away

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[-] set_secret@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

and he'd definitely pay too.

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