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Scientists criticize ‘straw man’ arguments in Bill Gates climate memo | Tech billionaire relying on ‘false binary’ with call to focus less on emissions and more on aid for poor, experts say (www.theguardian.com)
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[+] -9 points 11 months ago (7 children)

The Gates Foundation has been a significant player in 3rd world disease eradication.

Lemmy: FUCK HIM!

I was around when Microsoft exploded onto the scene. Oh you bet he did some evil, monopolistic shit to get it rolling, but I also remember what computing was like before Windows.

Between my friends and I we had 5 different home computers. Nothing was interoperable, not even the version of BASIC, total clusterfuck. Tech was crawling compared to after Windows snapped everything into focus. Yes, I wish Linux had come sooner, but it's a clusterfuck as well.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    Yes, fuck a pedophile trying to PR his way into "good guy" status.

    Lots of evil white folks go into third world in their old age, where their money is worth 100 times more (yay colonialism) and play "saint". Their PR then turns it into an "altruism" campaign.

    Trump is probably planning the same. And I'm fucking sure yankistanis and dumb people will bend over backwards to defend him cuz all the tax breaks, money silos into their own pockets are hidden behind layers and layers of shell companies and non profits. And he will get the bush treatment.

    "Eh? He might have been a war criminal, but he paints now and is friends with Gobamahs wife, so cute"

    Disgusting, to say the least.

    Does that absolve them of the shit human they've been all their lives?

    Why do you think the third world is the way it is? These children fucking billionaires are exploiting their resources one way or another, directly or indirectly with whole lot of corruption involved.

    Gullible people like you elevating them to their artificially manufactured status are how the rich get to do evil exploitative shit and then manipulate "good deeds" into PR points so they and their family are more likeable.

    Fuck you and Fuck Bill Gates!

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  • [+] -10 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    It’s sorta bizarre to me.

    If he had not given away all the wealth trying to fight diarrheal disease, HIV, TB, and try to source the solutions to the countries themselves… he would have been the richest man in the world even in the 2020s.

    Did he fuck some strange? Yeah.

    Did he act ruthlessly in business to get ahead? Yeah.

    Is he responsible for 80 MILLION lives saved? Yeah.

    Guy is doing what whole nations have failed to do and it’s on his back. Somehow that gets so much hate.

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  • [+] -6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Lemmy expects the rich to splat their money out and solve everything, all at once. Told this story a few times:

    There's an Indian proverb where a rich man is appalled by the poverty he sees. Gives a rupee to every beggar he sees, until he has no more rupees to give. He finds himself a beggar amongst the very people he tried to help, and didn't accomplish anything at all.

    I'm not getting paid by Gates here. I understand where he came from and what he did to get where he's at, watched it in real time during my IT career. But goddam is he doing good works. He's an elderly man trying his best to leave a positive impact on the world. Not gonna act like he's some supervillain.

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  • [–] -3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I am being paid by the foundation, full disclosure, but my agreement or disagreement with the man has nothing to do with working to further clinical trials that save human lives.

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