I hope Wikipedia doesnt go bankrupt it will feel like the end times . I think I will literally panic
Encyclopedia Britannica is always there
there’s this place called a library. and they have these things called books. and then there’s this thing called Google Search. where you can find books in PDF form.
Wikipedia is user edited. you can literally put anything you want in an entry almost. I think you know where I’m about to go with this.
You’re condescending and annoying. I am attached to Wikipedia out of sentimentality it’s always been there for as long as I remember and reliable to me for some casual trivia. Wikipedia is iconic and I love her. go write a research paper or something
who let high school teachers find tumblr
me: hm i wonder how many countries drive on the same side as the UK
friend: let’s check wikipedia in 2 seconds on our phones
some asshole on tumblr: um excuse me why don’t you stop what you’re doing to go to the library and look it up in an outdated book that’s edited maybe twice a decade and that definitely doesn’t have a single page article called “list of countries with left-hand traffic”
also “user edited” really doesn’t mean as much as you think it does. there are millions of people displaying accurate information, for every one person displaying inaccurate information. and that inaccurate information is usually changed quickly, and the person who made it can get their ip blocked from wikipedia if it was bad enough. way more accurate than textbooks or a library.
In the lifespan of the human species, horses are a relatively new thing. We only domesticated them between 4000 and 2000 BCE in Kazakhstan.
i bet people have been trying to ride every big animal just for shits and giggles since there have been people. because that’s just the kind of dumb thing people do. so a few millennia ago on the asian steppe, which is a boring place with not much to do, probably some people with no hobbies, who maybe were not having much sex and not good at crafts, got really into riding on horses. for the same reason that people get into frisbee golf or pole dancing: they’ve got energy to burn and it’s fun.
and then it turned out to be kind of not that weird after all and actually pretty useful, so it stopped being a goofy passtime and became a practical part of daily life.
that’s my theory.
imo, archaeologists and historians vastly underestimate the amount of innovation that results from people being young, hyperactive, and bored.
imagine young humans jumping on random animals for like a hundred thousand years of shits and giggles until all of a sudden we jump on one that’s like ‘hey…. this is pretty alright!’ and then we had horses
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