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  • I agree. You don’t use it as a source in an academic paper, just like you shouldn’t be using an encyclopedia. It’s still way better than listing Chat GPT as a source, but the quality of your sources matter in that setting.

    It’s an incredible resource though and great jumping off point for research. It’s so much bigger than any normal encyclopedia, and from what ive heard it’s usually more accurate than a traditional encyclopedia (do they still exist?), despite anyone being able to edit it. It’s a source for winning an argument with a friend, not for academic papers (the sources listed on the Wikipedia article are often good). Expect to be called out on it if you cite it.

    There’s many issues with academic journals and one could argue Wikipedia is actually better for evading those traps, but your prof isn’t going to see it that way and you’ll lose marks for using a bad source



  • Yeah, in wasn’t trying to imply you’d be pro D. P. R. K. in Cincinnati Pyongyang because you identified as commie. More like it’s just kind of head scratching to see people dismiss criticism of them or Pol Pot or something, because the US also did atrocious crazy things too, like they both aren’t fucking horrific.

    I’m just not used to anyone being apologetic about anything a ‘communist’ country does. Im used to people trying to distance themselves them from the actions of certain countries if they call themselves a communist, which makes seeing people lean into seem interesting. I just didn’t want to use the Reddit app so wasn’t expecting this major shift


  • So you don’t think life is so much better in N. Korea than South like memes say?

    Those guys are a strange phenomenon and I get why people block them but it’s also fascinating as like a performative art or something.

    I’m probably further left than almost everyone I know IRL, but never seen people go that hard into it. It’s wild.

    I’ve met people who were like the lite version of them, but maybe they just don’t say it to me but do on Lemmy.



  • He did but the key difference is that one of them killed a bunch of people with the gun they brought to their protest and the other just was carrying and was shot dead by ice guys.

    Another difference is that one was a handgun and the other was some sort of ar16 looking thing, but if the guns were switched and the guy filming Ice was carrying an AR he borrowed from another state. Id still be thinking they shouldnt have tackled him and shot him in the back just because he had his phone out

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