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Geimfari··on Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages
Not necessarily controversial, but articles that see an endless stream of disruptive editing.

It was originally implemented to limit disruption on articles related to the Isreal/Palestine conflict.

Geimfari··on Why Do So Many Egyptian Statues Have Broken Noses?
Genetic testing on ancient Egyptian mummies showed they were most similar to modern day Arabs. Sub-Saharan African genes made up 6-15%, which is much lower than today's Egyptians.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_race_controve...

Geimfari··on English, Swedish, German and Finnish Decline “Dog” (2013)
It's a confusing title. It would be more clear as "The declension of the word "dog" in various languages".
Geimfari··on Finnish breaks natural language processors
I just write the words separately and remove the spaces afterwards. An "I'm about to write a compound word"-button would be an easy solution, but it shouldn't be hard for the keyboard to automatically join the words after you've finished your sentence, it's mostly rule based.
Geimfari··on Leading with Wikipedia: A brand proposal for 2030
But you aren't paying for the editors and only a fraction of the donation goes to covering server costs. The Wikipedia project does not need your money and the foundation has enough money to survive indefinitely if they'd cut costs.
Geimfari··on Leading with Wikipedia: A brand proposal for 2030
The foundation has so much money that they could fully sustain themselves just from their endowment if they wanted to. They really do not need donations from the public and their petitions for money are misleading for the majority of people, who think they are helping to pay for editors (free) and server costs (minor costs).
Geimfari··on U.S. Is a Rich Country with Symptoms of a Developing Nation
A similar percentage applies to many Western nations.
Geimfari··on Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns
You use uppercase Roman numerals to indicate a major chord. So it is then easy to distinguish between vii⁰ and VII and is the standard way in music theory.
Geimfari··on 75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, or both? (2017)
Although I would welcome the use of common names instead of Latin names, the names in anatomy and pathology are annoying but not a hindrance. The difficult thing is to remember causes and symptoms of diseases, innervation of muscles, drug pathways, etc. That would be hard to simplify.
Geimfari··on Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism
Please note that acetaminophen/paracetamol is incredibly safe at normal doses and does not kill your liver.

It is only when you attempt to overdose (or if you have severely limited liver function) that you run out of the liver enzymes that break it down, causing liver damage.

Geimfari··on Game for learning Web Typography: The Equilateral Triangle
They aren't really foundational, they're just a set of styles that tend to look nice and are therefore taught in introductory classes. There aren't any actual rules for things like style/taste/fashion.
Geimfari··on Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder
Only for people who already have liver failure or who are attempting a suicide by overdose. Acetaminophen is completely safe at normal doses and the liver enzymes have no problem breaking it down at normal doses. It's only when you take the entire package that you run out of liver enzymes for it.
Geimfari··on Goldman Sachs Ensnarled in Vast 1MDB Fraud Scandal
That is not the case, since 1MDB wasn't supposed to fund anything in Hollywood. It was sold to the public as a unified state fund similar to the Norwegian oil fund. The funds from 1MDB were fraudulently directed to another bank account that was then used to fund all kinds of things, especially extravagant parties and a Hollywood film.
Geimfari··on Publisher Gets Carte Blanche to Seize New Sci-Hub Domains
I haven't been able to find any instances of the courts requesting take-downs. But the registry has removed some ISIS domains on their own accord.
Geimfari··on Gaijin Engineer in Tokyo
But that applies to everything. Surely you're not that much of a reductionist that nothing people say can move you. "I have never loved you" is also just some vibrations in the air.
Geimfari··on Chiropractors are bullshit
There only exists two proven methods for stopping back pain: Physical exercise and rest.

Many things tend to go away by themselves (regression to the mean), back pain appears to be one of them and we haven't found better ways to treat it.

Chiropractors often make one feel good for a few days but the effect does not last.

Geimfari··on Chiropractors are bullshit
It is not recommended. It is recommended to visit a physical therapist, who will treat you using research-based methods.
Geimfari··on Phishing with Unicode Domains
But they're very rarely used because support for them hasn't been good. Support is still unpredictable, I run into failing URL parsers constantly.
Geimfari··on Phishing with Unicode Domains
Yes. It's very odd to need to adjust your own language to fit into ASCII.

I can easily continue replacing "þ" and "ð" with "th", continue removing diacritics, but it feels like being robbed of an aspect of your language.

Geimfari··on How Products Are Made
Dear lord, that is a lot of wonderful reference material.

I'm not certain I get how they can afford so much (seemingly?) original material, yet be low-key enough that I haven't come across them before.

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