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- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 2 days ago:
Does that mean Gates will be “good” if he spends all his money on vaccines and then dies of natural causes?
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 2 days ago:
I’m not going to make a blanket claim like “philanthropy is not misused to avoid taxes”, because of course in some limited cases it is, but your assertion that the motivation for the Gates foundation is to avoid taxes is baseless. It’s a common idea that you’ve subscribed to, but you’re unable to back it up with even a vague idea.
The Gates Foundation has made Gates’ significantly less wealthy.
I’ll ask you directly: why would you become less wealthy in order to avoid tax?
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 2 days ago:
This doesn’t make any sense.
He’s been doing this since long before Epstein was arrested.
He also doesn’t need to launder money because he’s already paid tax on all his money. He’s becoming demonstrably, significantly less wealthy in the course of distributing vaccines. If he were laundering money he would be becoming more wealthy.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 2 days ago:
This doesn’t make much sense to me.
Sure. Gates is not a “nice” person. The business practices involved in becoming a billionaire require him to be a vile human being. Granted.
That said, he has given up his place on the leaderboard. He has become dramatically less wealthy as a result of his philanthropic work.
What are you claiming is Gates’ motivation here? Not getting murdered? Come on. There are much more practical, reliable, and cheaper means to achieve that.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 2 days ago:
That makes two of us I guess.
You said that you don’t know how it works, I can’t really respond to that.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 2 days ago:
It’s not.
This is a common misconception based on meme level reasoning.
I don’t know how this works but I know I don’t like billionaires.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 3 days ago:
Why would you waste $10 to save $5 in tax?
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 4 days ago:
People paying reddit aren’t training their models by scraping the web ui.
The original comments are still in the database, which is what you’d pipe into an LLM.
- Comment on Negative gearing reform is back, but young voters now hold the power 1 week ago:
To the surprise of absolutely no one, people who don’t own houses don’t like negative gearing.
They’ll take it to an election though. Suicidal to introduce mid-cycle.
It didn’t get up in 2019 because there was too much other stuff, dividend imputation et cetera.
- Comment on Anon looks into cults 1 week ago:
I think an array of mental illness and drug abuse is more likely.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 1 week ago:
Ah yes, illiteracy. Hilarious.
- Comment on [Poll] What social media platforms do you know about? 1 week ago:
nostr
- Comment on When can I take advantage of the Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025? 2 weeks ago:
I know enough about awards to know that in many cases it’s extraordinarily difficult to determine which award applies to you.
If you want to know, discard all assumed or present knowledge and start with the fair work ombudsman.
I’m by no means an expert, but I’ve never heard of the professional employees award.
I work in finance, we’re “professional employees” but we’re covered by a finance award.
I’ve also never heard of the 1.25x the minimum wage thing either.
For each type of role the award will list levels like 1 for introductory to 6 for high levels of responsibility.
You can make an agreement with your employer regarding your wages but it needs to be better than or equal to the terms provided by the award.
- Comment on Let's get Physical 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but why would it be on the front pages?
- Comment on cookie combs 3 weeks ago:
Thats what i said?
- Comment on Let's get Physical 3 weeks ago:
LOL even just the first picture by itself… there’s only 1 reason it would be of any interest.
- Comment on Let's get Physical 3 weeks ago:
It wasn’t speech to text but obviously no, I didn’t check.
- Comment on Let's get Physical 3 weeks ago:
Their employees and partners probably WorldCom found out about it but it wouldn’t have become the eternal meme it is now.
- Comment on Let's get Physical 3 weeks ago:
It was kinda implied though right?
- Comment on cookie combs 3 weeks ago:
I think that depends on the fiction between each item / cell, and the plane.
I think soap bubbles for example will always form hexagons.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this is how I feel.
I get that the world is moving forward and I might be okd and whatever but I think that a physical photo album is still part of assumed general knowledge in 2025.
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 4 weeks ago:
Supercomputers once required large power plants to operate, and now we carry around computing devices in out pockets that are more powerful than those supercomputers.
This is false. Supercomputers never required large [dedicated] power plants to operate.
Yes they used a lot of power, yes that has reduced significantly, but it’s not at the same magnitude as AI
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 4 weeks ago:
None of that is terrifying at all /s.
- Comment on Perspective 5 weeks ago:
IKR. This was the obvious answer 24 hours ago but here we are discussing wear patterns and contrast.
- Comment on Perspective 5 weeks ago:
Why is no one else talking about this.
There’s no debate. It’s at the top of the stairs.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 5 weeks ago:
Are the protestors with signs saying they support palestinian action intending to state that they support the group or that they support action generally?
Either way they’ve manufactured this issue to protest anti-terrorism laws right?
Not sure if would die on this hill.
- Comment on How do you all keep the area around the toilet paper dust-free? 5 weeks ago:
The consensus throughout this post is that its the brand of TP.
OP had a problem about cleaning, asked a question, received an answer, and know knows the solution which will enable them to clean their toilet.
You’re here trying to shame someone for asking a question about cleaning.
- Comment on How do you all keep the area around the toilet paper dust-free? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen this.
- Comment on How do you all keep the area around the toilet paper dust-free? 5 weeks ago:
Fuck off.
I knew this would be here.
Q: “How do I clean my bathroom?”
A: “I clean my bathroom you dirty pleb”
- Comment on How do you all keep the area around the toilet paper dust-free? 5 weeks ago:
The bum gun does take some practice.
You pretty much shuffle forward a little, position the BG behind the disaffected area, at an obtuse angle to your sphincter, ease on, I mean really ease on the gas until you can confirm that all splash is going down into the bowl, finally you can really pucker up and hit it.
The thing is… you still need some TP to dry off after.