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Are friends just a form of casual entertainment?

I'd say helpfulness, responsiveness and being friends are three different things, that can be overlapping or not.

I know some people who always respond and keep the conversation alive even though we're not friends, and i can be ghosted for days by close friends, who i lived intense things with.

I know some people who helped me moving out even though we were just accointances, and i have friends who are lazy enough to avoid this, but i live spending time with them anyway.

These are very fluid for me, so i'd say to avoid worrying, it's best to not expect a lot from people, and/or to try to find friends that seem to match your needs

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Totally normal, totally cool

Why does he even pick the case of a 12-year hold pregnant person ? Isn't that like, the case were almost everyone can agree that abortion makes even more sense than usual ? Have i missed that somehow conservatives consider it to be worse than when adult people abort ?

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Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

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Shameless copy/paste of the main info if anyone wants to catch a glimpse without going to reddit :

Summary of events:

On 5 March 2026, a Wikimedia Foundation employee accidentally imported a malicious script to his account on Meta-Wiki while testing global API limits for user scripts (see his global.js page history). The malicious script was created in 2023 to attack two Russian-language alternative wiki projects, Wikireality and Cyclopedia. In 2024, user Ololoshka562 created a page on the Russian Wikipedia containing the script used in these attacks. The script, which had been sitting dormant on ruwiki for 1.5 years, then spread to several accounts on Meta, including WMFOffice, and mass-deleted pages in namespaces 0–3, leaving behind an edit summary of "Закрываем проект", Russian for "Closing the project". The staff member, as a global interface administrator, has permission to edit meta:MediaWiki:Common.js, which allowed the script to infect any user who visited Meta-Wiki while it was active. To prevent the script from spreading further, all Wikimedia projects were set to read-only for about 2 hours, and all user JavaScript was temporarily disabled.

Post from WMF staff member on Discord:

Hey all - as some of you have seen, we (WMF) were doing a security review of the behavior of user scripts, and unintentionally activated one that turned out to be malicious. That is what caused the page deletions you saw on the Meta log, which are getting cleaned up. We have no reason to believe any third-party entity was actively attacking us today, or that any permanent damage occurred or any breach of personal information.

We were doing this security review as part of an effort to limit the risks of exactly this kind of attack. The irony of us triggering this script while doing so is not lost on us, and we are sorry about the disruption. But the risks in this system are real. We are going to continue working on security protections for user scripts – in close consultation with the community, of course – to make this sort of thing much harder to happen in the future.

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Science is political.

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On one hand i clearly agree with you about the overmedicalization issue, on the other hand there also was an undermedicalization going on for centuries, especially in the autism/ADHD/etc fields. It's a tough balance to get, cuz the rise of diagnoses may not indicate an overmedicalization, but rather a correction of the undermedicalization (though the risk of overmed. is real, clearly).

And on the medical condition being part of an identity, i also get your point, but it's also important to consider that making your differences part of your identity makes perfect sense, and for a lot of people their differences come from medical conditions. Conflating the two may be slightly unhealthy, but far less than repressing it as non-subject.

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I guess it's the alcohol by volume, sometimes called "degrees" (in France it's the most common term). 45 is quite a lot for wine though, but it could be for liqueur (people with actual knowledge corrected me below, it is actually degree Oeschle, which indicates the density of sugar in grape)

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If we're talking in absolutes, state can be overthrown without guns : it's a social construct, it can be unmade by social means.

Now, it's far far easier with violence, and violence is easier with guns, so practically and realistically you're probably right. But eh, i like nitpicking.

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How did they know?

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Yeah, i'd instinctively say "je vais vous prendre" in front of the phrase. We have a lot of weird and technically useless or wrong phrase structures like that in everyday language, so speaking grammatically perfect french is basically sus from the start.

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Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

Interesting numbers for people who dont wanna read :

  • on all the new contributors they taught, only ~5% were flagged by the AI detection tool.
  • on the AI flagged articles, only 7% presented sources that didn't even exist. Most of the AI outputed correct statements with existing sources.
  • however, north of 66% of AI articles failed verification : the citations or facts could not be found in the sources provided by AI