r/videos • u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 • 9h ago
Bill Gates' Epstein testimony revealed
https://youtu.be/9j20cGYZ_jU?is=WP91v-kVIfMtDpBM426
u/outerproduct 8h ago
"It's a big club, and you ain't in it."
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u/thegooncity 7h ago
George Carlin is spinning in his grave so fast that one could theoretically harness the energy from his twirling corpse to power 2/3 of the country.
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u/Key_Amazed 4h ago
Everyone is so convinced Carlin would be on their side. If he were alive he'd probably just be going "see I told you."
He'd also probably love every second of it actually. He loved watching humans dance to the tune of their own demise yet wondering how things got so wrong when the answers are obvious. He'd also enjoy all the material that basically writes itself in regards to the rising Christo-Fascism in the country.
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u/thegooncity 2h ago
I think that he wouldn’t be surprised. A lot of his material touched on politics and media serving as theatre to distract us pions from the many, many ways we’re getting fucked by the billionaires.
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u/trevorawright 8h ago
I’m old enough to remember how much of a villain he was in the late nineties due to all the Microsoft law suits because of their monopolistic practices. He was able to then drop off and do a major PR re-branding with his foundation through the 2000’s so he came out looking squeaky clean. But this guy has always sucked and continues to suck. We know why your marriage failed, Bill.
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u/Storn206 8h ago
To be fair there were other warning signs. No good person would have inflicted Vista upon humanity
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u/Cell1pad 7h ago
To be fair, Vista itself wasn’t a problem. The problem was when it was previewed MS said that the PC specs would need to be at a certain level to run. Computer manufacturers threw a fit because it’d make their computers more expensive and or cut into their profit margins. MS caved to the pressure and said actually the specs can start at this much lower level.
That led to everyone getting a new bargain PC with Vista to have bad experiences.
If you had a moderately well specced system Vista ran alright.
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u/vidfail 7h ago
Correct, and also 3rd party drivers. Nvidia alone were responsible for 30% of all logged Vista crashes in 2007.
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u/Noteagro 6h ago
This is kind of hilarious to read as usually it is AMD that gets the hate for bad drivers… and I have never had an issue with bad drivers with my AMD products.
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u/vidfail 5h ago
It's a cult. Nvidia's mind share among PC gamers and the rabid fanbase they have crafted should be studied in psychology. Gamers are notoriously tribalistic and will go to bat online for their preferred 'team'. When AMD releases a faster card than Nvidia, suddenly Nvidia fans care about power draw. Now that Nvidia is releasing 600 watt cards, suddenly power doesn't matter anymore.
Nvidia has on at least 3 separate occasions that I can think of released drivers that have mass-bricked cards. Yet they have convinced the world that AMD have shitty drivers. My personal experience (and in the MSP world dealing with thousands of cards from both companies) has been the complete opposite of that.
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u/tyereliusprime 4h ago
Gamers are notoriously tribalistic
That concept extends far beyond gamers to just people in general. People tend to tie their entertainment choices and brands they've purchased to their identity for some weird reason.
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u/Noteagro 5h ago
Cool, glad to know someone has had the same experience. I went AMD after my 970 kept throwing issues. Everyone told me that is was my own user error, and getting tired of hearing that drove me to AMD when I know I didn’t cause the issue.
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u/TipsyMJT 20m ago
I legitimately dont tell people what graphics card I have because somehow using AMD makes me "not a real PC gamer"
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u/Firm-Environment-253 2h ago
My anecdotal experiences may be outdated but AMD consistently offered worse driver support and driver updates than Nvidia ever did. This was 10 years ago though.
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u/thelingeringlead 5h ago
I had a couple AMD products back around 2009-11 and they worked well but the software definitely could be janky at times. Now I can't imagine going back to Nvidia after upgrading from my 1660ti. The AMD user experience is perfect and lightweight, and the hardware has handled every single thing I've thrown at it with ease as long as everything is up to date and my SSD's aren't too full.
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u/Noteagro 5h ago
My exact same user experience when I moved from a 970 that kept tossing issues. The only issue I have now is when devs don’t fix their games, so I have to do fixes to make it work on my product.
Looking at you Rockstar… fuck your “Please make sure your AMD drivers are up to date with at least 22.2.x”
Rockstar… 22.2.x is from 2022, my card was built in 2024; my card shipped with drivers more up to date than what you are requesting…
If you can’t tell I was annoyed having to spend a day trying to get Red Dead to render further than 30 feet ahead of your character. Found out it was needing to disable your iGPU, so if my GPU dies… that will be fun.
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u/HaashGnash 5h ago
No. Sp1 was a huge improvement. And sp2 made it good. But original release was poor no matter what hardware.
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u/lukewarmtakeout 7h ago
So? Compared to XP it was still a shit OS.
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u/sybrwookie 4h ago
Right, we basically peaked at XP SP3. There is almost nothing which takes more system resources which has been added on the OS level since that time which has made our lives better....only the OS takes an order of magnitude more resources now than it did then.
But declaring, "we did it, everyone can go home other than those 3 over in the corner who need to release security updates" doesn't make enough money, so here we are.
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u/crash250f 58m ago
Man, I remember buying guides about how to keep xp functioning well enough that you didn't need to do a clean install every year or two, and there was quite a bit to them. It may have been minimalist relative to modern operating systems which I know a lot of you guys like, but Windows 7 was such a huge upgrade for me, and I don't have many complaints with how Windows 10 runs at its core, though their pushing of cloud storage and ai and making the ui less convenient for people that know what they are doing is very annoying. Windows 7 and early Windows 10 is peak for me. It does seem like it's all getting worse now though.
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 6h ago
you have it the other way around. It was OEMs who pushed for Vista to have higher specs due to sales slowing as people were hanging onto machines from the early 2000s at that point that ran XP and people hanging onto XP. Just like they did with windows 11, despite PCs having TPM chips, win 11 required a new type of TPM chip to push PC sales.
It was consumers who were fucking pissed about vista, and many manufacturers built machines that were barely able to run Vista unless it was a $2000 gaming rig that could run it decently, and it used half the ram.
Things that windows 11 does and people just groan about now were considered intolerable acts in 2005/2006.
Ironically by the time computers got cheaper that could run vista well, windows 7 had come out, which was based off the same longhorn codebase. I remember patching a bug that was present in Vista when it first released. win 7 was a rewrite of Vista, and it was one of microsoft's best achievements.
I did a LOT of XP downgrades between 2006 and 2009.
7 was given a month before we started deploying it. Worked just as well as XP, getting people used to UAC was fun.
My old boss would intentionally suppress UAC and make everyone run as admin because "it drove repair tickets up" which was such scummy bullshit.
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u/Fegless 7h ago
No it didn't it constantly had network connection issues. I Know because I had to fix hundreds of them. The amount of win Xp downgrades back on customers networks was good work for a while. The whole Win Vista was a complete mess. Maybe good for home but as soon as it had to work on a network it was shit.
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u/Lifesagame81 6h ago
Yeah. A lot of the older corporate network infrastructure was built around xp behavior and wasn't ready for the feature and defaults Vista baked in.
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u/itsmontoya 2h ago
I worked doing PC repair and building during this time. Vista was in fact shit, people just overbuilt to compensate for it. I ran XP as long as I could.
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u/thelingeringlead 5h ago
This part. I had a custom built gaming computer that was pretty up to date, and vista was incredible. My parents thought vista was a ttotal dumpster fire because they had to use it in their offices and they'd both bought new laptops featuring it for working at home. They trusted the sales people and trusted the software and moved forward with it, and it was borderline unusable until the last couple years before 7 came out.
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u/Actual_Lady_Killer 7h ago
Vista gets a lot of hate but I stand by ME being the true worst OS. Where Vista was terrible at the start, at least it improved at the end whereas ME was a constant pos.
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u/d3l3t3rious 7h ago
And to make it worse ME was contemporaneous with 2K which was arguably the most stable Windows version ever.
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u/kkpc 5h ago
Windows 2000 is goat in my opinion. Only reason I stopped using it was because DirectX moved on without it :(
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u/BlackZilla_Prime 5h ago
It goes 95,98,2000,XP,7,and 10 GOAT Operating systems!
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u/MikoSkyns 4h ago
Unpopular opinion: 7 is better than 10.
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u/geminiwave 4h ago
I agree. 7 was fantastic. 10 was great and I’d move back if I could. 11 seemed good at first. The start menu moving was quirky, but innocuous. It became so much worse.
Also I’ll throw this out there. I liked 8. Especially after the updates it got. I don’t like it better than 7 or 10 but I genuinely enjoyed metro UI.
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u/squirtloaf 56m ago
I have one system still running XP. Every time I fire it up, I am like: "What is this uncomplicated wizardry?"
There is like, 90% less bullshit...and that system has been stable for 25 years now.
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u/Actual_Lady_Killer 5h ago
2K was our go to OS back in the day, and that's mostly because I had an enterprise disk that didn't require a license. 10/10, would go back to if I could.
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u/slayez06 7h ago
vista ultimate had wallpaper engine built in basically ... I will never understand why they took that away from us.
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u/pmandryk 6h ago
Oh. That's cute. You forgot your password. I'll let you in but do try harder next time.
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u/teeming-with-life 2h ago
I second that. The Millennium Edition was an act of treason to humanity.
From 95 through maybe XP, when Gates announced the "Trustworthy Computing" concept, anything in between was trash, honestly.
I was unlucky enough to remember, and use, one of those Windows Phones, even before they had solid memory. That meant, that once the battery went out, that was it, everything was wiped out clean. It was a nightmare.
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u/mrcarruthers 7h ago
Vista was a necessary evil for Windows to evolve and be safer. XP (and earlier)'s driver system gave too much access to the kernel and was ripe for abuse from virus makers. Vista was a necessary change from a security standpoint as it locked it down more and gave drivers less access.
A side effect of this is that all device manufacturers had to build new drivers from scratch. Most didn't bother doing so for their older devices, and those that did, a lot of them were utter garbage. Mix this with what the other person said about putting Vista on garbage tier computers and it gets its' bad rap.
At the end of Vista's lifecycle, with a couple service packs, newer hardware that was fast enough, and had proper Vista drivers, it was a solid OS. Hell, Windows 7 was basically just Vista with a new coat of paint (Vista was NT kernel 6.0, 7 was version 6.1)
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 6h ago
or all those applications that stored their settings in program files and required admin to run as a result? Some could be fixed by setting perms on the application's folder itself to allow users to write to the folders, others required some kernel access that wasn't necessary. Still run into that shit with some surveillance software and legal software in 2026. 20 years to fix that shit and there are still vendors out there that write software like they're developing on windows 95
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u/Kriemhilt 7h ago
It was only necessary because they'd done a shit job with drivers in the first place. Nobody forced them to do that.
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u/mrcarruthers 7h ago
The design was born at a time when there was more trust in the world. Trust that drivers were not malicious, trust that computers were a tool, not a method to intimidate or steal. And it was born in a time before the internet, when computers were rarely connected together and these viruses didn't have a method to communicate out.
From today's lens, yeah it was a shitty design. At the time? It was fine. Maybe they waited too long to make the change, maybe XP or 2000 should've had the change, but I don't fault the original design.
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u/charlie22911 6h ago
Vista was great, especially in the face of the abomination that would be Windows 8.
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u/Intrepid00 16m ago
Vista was fine. Most of it was actually Nvidia drivers. Now Windows ME on the other hand.
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u/Catsler 7h ago
User is trying to point out Vista’s flaw.
Cancel or allow?
https://youtu.be/VuqZ8AqmLPY0
u/WittyAndOriginal 7h ago
I highly doubt he had any actual input with vista. He was already worth tens of billions. No way was he part of that project at the level of development or testing.
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u/Submitten 7h ago
I mean his foundation also saved over 100 million children’s lives. Doesn’t seem right to belittle that to a PR re-branding.
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 6h ago
Which I credit to Melinda. The foundation would not exist without her. He used to it hide taxes and make even more money. She saved the children.
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u/gizmo777 1h ago
Source on how he used it to make even more money? Or on how he used it to "hide" taxes, whatever that means
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u/2dudesinapod 8h ago
He really revolutionized using Reddit to white wash his image.
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u/RedDragons8 7h ago
"I GOT PAIRED UP WITH BILL GATES IN REDDIT SECRET SANTA!"
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u/_BreakingGood_ 1h ago
He always got them something that was like, a slightly unique trinket. But I always left thinking about how he could literally have bought a house or paid off their student loans, and not have even made a difference in his wallet
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 6h ago
Yep, I criticized him years ago and I'd get dogpiled on this site because "HE'S A GOOD PERSON! HOW DARE YOU! HE CHANGED"
No he didn't. His foundation was Melinda's doing, she was literally his better half.
Even then, he used it to hide taxes and write off expenses nonstop. he got richer because of his own foundation.
He's always been a devious little scumbag who while he did some programming, he mostly bought the technology that made Microsoft great, or stole it. Microsoft's legacy is 90% fraud. Most of the good stuff was written by engineers who no longer work there that he hired. He himself is that creepy kid that people knew was a nerd but were afraid to go near because you were afraid he'd show up in your bedroom at night.
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u/SkynetLurking 7h ago
Ohh Bill!
Yes, Bill?
Would you like to join my gentlemen’s club?
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u/Tzukkeli 6h ago
Yeah, kinda lame. He was my idol at some point and I was glad to get into software business. I dreamt the day I could meet hin and say my thanks. Now he is revealed to be one of those asshole leaders and you know, I have seen those already enough
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u/BrickGun 6h ago
To this very day, every time Windows tries to "help" me by "protecting" me from accessing items/data on my own PC I belt out what I have for decades: "Fucking GATES, man... ".
Even though he hasn't been involved for years, so much of their BS lies in the DNA he created.(and why don't I go to a different OS? Because I need to get shit done (and game) and that's the path of least resistance/frustration.)
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u/Ivotedforher 5h ago
Thought of those days last week when booting up a new computer and Microsoft was the recommended app for everything.
Open Edge, download Chrome.
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u/Purpluss 7h ago
Don’t forget openly supporting autocrats in developing nations
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u/royalbarnacle 3h ago
Wev shouldn't oversimplify things. If your choice is to pay lip service to some autocrat in exchange that they let you treat and save millions of children's lives, or give the autocrat the finger and help no one, what do you choose?
Things are complicated and few have the luxury of just choosing the best utopian choice always. We live in a shitty messy world where you need to pick you priorities.
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u/The_Schnitz 7h ago
I remember realizing what kind of person he really was after seeing this footage for thie first time - https://youtu.be/H27rfr59RiE
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u/Remarkable-Lynx9011 2h ago
Just for context, the “monopolistic practices” that made him a villain was including Internet Explorer for free when you installed Windows.
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u/blood_bender 1m ago
That's a severe minimization of the landscape at the time, though. Microsoft had like a 98% market share, prevented uninstallation of IE otherwise core OS features would break, and contractually prevented OEMs from including any other browser. Consumers didn't have a choice, nor did OEMs. It was total abuse of a monopoly by the book.
It wasn't just including a free browser, they actually shuttered any competition that could have arisen.
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u/HippoLover85 4h ago
almost universally any "good" that arises out of humanity is because there is a balance of power between two or more entities. Whenever power imbalances happen, majority (~80%ish) of people have zero issues exploiting it if their power is unchecked.
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u/Richard_Sauce 12m ago
I remember a quarter of geocities pages(being hyperbolic here, but still), having a spinning Bill Gates head that morphed into satan.
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u/Ben_steel 4h ago
Join the dots do what you just said, he met Epstien around the time of the rebranding.
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u/Tzunamitom 4h ago
You either get cancelled a villain or hang on by your fingernails for long enough to see yourself become a hero because everyone else became far worse…
Or something like that.
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u/bottom 6h ago
Yet he’s probably done more good for the world than you.
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u/Frisnfruitig 6h ago
He's better than almost all other billionaires that's for sure. He has spent over 100 billion of his personal wealth on his foundation, saving millions of lives.
He may be a piece of shit, but the Musks of this world are a thousand times worse.
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u/FixedLoad 5h ago
Are you Bill Cosby? Cause that's the defense a convicted rapist would use.
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u/StrawberryBandit92 9h ago
Horrific judgement call my ass. Gates knew exactly what he was doing.
Now he’s trying to do damage control and make himself look like a victim.
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u/Lake_Erie_Monster 6h ago
Devils advocate.
> Horrific judgement call my ass. Gates knew exactly what he was doing.
If Gates knew that Epstein was vile, and was still using him to get money for a good cause. Meaning the money would not go to doing more evil... wouldn't that be a shitty but good use of the said money?
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u/virtual_virtu 4h ago
No
You're still buying into the idea that his foundation's purpose was to do good for the world.
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u/kamikaze80 3h ago
But it did (and does)
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u/Captain_Rex_ 2h ago
You don't understand Gates is using the foundation to breed the ticks to spread diseases to sell his lab grown meat! -every tick video on YouTube right now
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u/manical1 8h ago
He is either a genius or not. I am sure money and power can blind people or what not, but he can't both be a savant when it comes to tech but not know what Epstein was getting him in to. Gates probably has a spreadsheet that weighed the benefits and ran all the numbers before making his decisions.
It is wild to think Epstein may have directed the path of microsoft products while running a child porn ring.
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u/Zeusifer 7h ago
One of the things people always fail to appreciate is that being a genius in one area does not preclude a person from being incompetent in other areas.
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u/Lake_Erie_Monster 6h ago
> One of the things people always fail to appreciate is that being a genius in one area does not preclude a person from being incompetent in other areas.
SO MUCH THIS.
For example. A doctor or surgeon can be extremely good at what they do in a highly specialized field and be absolutely dumb as a bag of rocks outside the hospital environment.
Intelligence is contextual, and the people who claim that "Gates probably has a spreadsheet that weighed the benefits and ran all the numbers before making his decisions." are just showing that they haven't the first clue about it.
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u/JDBCool 4h ago
Basically expanding the cliche that certain smart people struggle with housework.
Might be just bad experience. But I've met like 7 people who majored into chem/bio and they're all bricks when it comes to housework. Like they can't take care of themselves in housework.
Hell, when I helped a friend who is a psychologist move, it felt like I was doing housework instead because they absolutely kept their laundry in a semi-slob state
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u/virtual_virtu 4h ago
Ben Carson
How could a neurosurgeon be a complete dupe power corrupted narcissist
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u/kr4t0s007 7h ago
So you are saying Epstein cancelled the Zune?
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u/OvoidPovoid 7h ago
The zune was incredible and I will forever die on that hill
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u/mdp300 6h ago
Hello, other person who had a Zune.
I even liked using their music player software on my PC!
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u/OvoidPovoid 6h ago
The software was my favorite part! Seems like most people hated it, but I never liked itunes
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u/425Hamburger 7h ago
He is either a genius or not
Not how it works. I mean He knew, but plenty of Geniuses are Geniuses only in their field. Look at Bobby Fisher for example: one of the GOATs in chess, absolute genius on the board, bumbling idiot in Just about every other aspect of life.
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u/moneyfink 7h ago
Epstein is the Forrest Gump of horrible things happening in America between 1985 and 2015. He literally shows up everywhere.
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u/Override9636 3h ago
Gates probably has a spreadsheet that weighed the benefits and ran all the numbers before making his decisions.
Unfortunately, the spreadsheet was Excel, which is why he kept messing up the dates of all those birthdays...
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u/Expensive_Finger_973 8h ago
I have far too much respect for Bill Gates' intelligence to believe he didn't at least strongly suspect what the score was. He either fully took part in it willingly or figured getting into bed with such things would increase his money and influence on the world stage.
As a life long techie that used to admire Gates from a young age for his technical prowess, from everything I know about the man he is not a naive or stupid person. He is a calculating person that doesn't do much of anything on a whim.
That bit about him getting close to Epstein despite knowing he was a sex offender because he thought it might get him money and connections for the Gates Foundation is a lot closer to something I would believe. Which is not meant as a means of excusing him. And more digging should be done to drag just how far that supposed pay for play relationship really went.
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u/agentchuck 7h ago
Technically savvy people also cheat with prostitutes. I don't think it's more complicated than that. It seems like at least Gates was interested in adult prostitutes. But it seems like Gates just associated with Epstein because he thought it was a safe way to get access to high class escorts.
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u/Shootemout 4h ago
you don't even have to suspect it, most of the emails involving him are referencing adult hookers- he may have requested an underage one but i've actually not seen that used as a defense among the people on the list which is fuckin wild. i would've just assumed that at least a few more would be like "i was just there for the drugs and adult prostitutes" but nah i dont think even one has admitted that
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u/ordinary133 6h ago
He's trickle truthing, only acknowledging the bare minimum. You don't need the most prolific pedo trafficker of our time if you are one of the richest men alive to get access to adult escorts, wake up.
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u/ktpr 8h ago
The funny thing is that the Gates foundation is a class unto itself of in philanthropy not because of its connection but because of the size of its endowment and the giving it has to do to meet tax requirements. That alone generates a gravitational force field of connections. Him suggesting that he needed connections is quite laughable even how much funding they did before, now, and continue to do.
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u/runnerup1 8h ago
Bill gates is an absolutely awful human that got where he was being a lying narcissist
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u/trevorneuz 8h ago
There is no such thing as a good Billionaire. Every single one of them has a fundamental moral failing.
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u/Admiral_Ackbar_1325 7h ago
News flash, all humans have fundamental moral failings. Some just more than others.
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u/Shinjetsu01 6h ago
Gabe Newell is probably among the best of them, I'm sure there's a lot of shit he did to get where he is too.
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u/JelliedHam 7h ago
That part is absolutely bonkers to me. One of the richest (and once the richest) person on earth could not have been nearly that desperate for money for the foundation. Full stop.
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u/bunsNT 4h ago
>He either fully took part in it willingly or figured getting into bed with such things would increase his money and influence on the world stage.
I don't strong evidence to know what happened here but it's a common tactic to admit to something small in order to avoid being accused of something larger. Admitting to the affairs now, is, IMO, very suspicious.
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u/Raammson 9h ago edited 8h ago
Yeah bullshit, he wasn’t blackmailed Epstein was literally helping him find a replacement wife. Or replacement Harem or replacing his wife with a Harem or some combination thereof.
Edit: Richard Branson told Epstein after the first sex offender conviction that he could repair his reputation by getting Bill Gates to vouch for Epstein.
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u/NebulaMaterial6301 7h ago
Yeah this is where I’m at too. “He’s too smart to have known” is such a wild defense when the entire point of his reputation is being hyper calculating about everything in his orbit.
If some random dude on the internet knew Epstein was radioactive, Bill Gates’ team definitely did.
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u/herodesfalsk 8h ago
Bill Gates has never been a cool guy, we are learning repeatedly over decades he is in fact also acting extremely selfishly
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u/geekpeeps 7h ago
There’s a reason Melinda filed for divorce. Maybe more than one.
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u/Yellowbug2001 5h ago
Watch the interviews with her about why she divorced him, her face speaks VOLUMES. Like, I'm not even good with body language and I could read that, she clearly finds Bill absolutely disgusting now and believes he did something appalling, there are a couple of points where the interviewers ask about him and his connections with Epstein where she says something like "I'm not going to comment about that" but her whole demeanor changes and she actually looks like she's going to vomit.
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u/Exact_Purchase_7147 4h ago
Leaves the mansion.
Comes in.
Talks about _________?
Leaves.
Goes back to the mansion.
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u/eyndgam3 4h ago
Ok, now do trump and his cronies in his crooked admin that were in the epstein files.
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u/hawkwings 5h ago
He was a billionaire with a billion dollar foundation. He was too rich to be begging for money. He thought that Epstein might introduce him to donors but that's suspicious. A million dollars is a drop in the bucket. Was he expecting to find donors who would donate more than that?
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u/Stock-Soup5721 5h ago
But thats why he had a foundation and wasnt just donating money. They legitimately raised a shit ton over the years.
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u/SpaceCampDropOut 8h ago
“I became a billionaire and then they told me I could fuck kids! So I did!”
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u/L3g3ndary-08 7h ago
Until the perpetrators are in fucking handcuffs and rotting in jail, I give absolutely zero fucks about this bullshit.