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aside from everything else, one of the most obvious signs that capitalism is a trash system is that we all have to know about this guy's shit takes. and not only that, his bullshit takes and notions create gravitational pull on societies resources, including state policy.

in any reasonable society, this opportunistic douchebag would have been picking up garbage on the side of the road and other work-release shit for trying to steal other peoples' ideas and collect tolls for their use. his attempts to legitimize "intellectual property" would have backfired and resulted in the nationalization and release to the public domain of large libraries of software.

instead we get this guy constantly trying to colonize africa's food system, hanging out on sex crime island, doing vaccine apartheid, becoming the largest owner of prime agricultural land in the US, and generally being able to walk the streets without anyone throwing rotten cabbage at his face.

Too many resources are spent on keeping Bill alive

He was never an ally. Libs celebrated him, but his climate change stuff was for optics.

oh hey its the guy who kept the covid19 vaccine closed source

Death penalty or jail forever for anyone spreading climate denialism.

Going against the usual climate denialism common: We very much could unfuck everything we've done/are doing to the environment. Its bozos like this that will keep us from doing so, because they're the closest thing to satan to exist in this world.

Keeping somethings vague for you-know reasons. Ended up typing a lot more then I expected too lol.

I'm in a very conservative area right now. A conservative I think most of yall would recognize (at least by name) 'represents' me, the culture here is largely rotten 5th+ generation "Europeans", I'm about 70% certain an Italian place I've gone to is just one piece of hundreds owned by the mob, even one of the local realtors has a last name similar to one of the mob's former boss, etc, etc.

Even here, there is a huge amount of interest and grassroots effort to unfuck suburban America. People doing their best despite the barbarian law codes ruling us. Genuine interest in replanting native species and digging out non-natives. Living with nature as much as us crackers can.

Old conservatives talking to us (me and coworkers) about environmentalism, responable hunting and fishing, planting native plants, and expressing a seemingly genuine appreciation that us younger folks are doing hard work to restore the land. Huge portion of the younger folk are near-radicalized/radicalized on environmentalism. Theres collaboration between this VERY white area and the more diverse areas nearby.

Upper management appreciates that everyone who stops in is dumbfounded we're free, have so much information and interest, and do and provide so much for so little. We're the least of their problems, which means they don't complain about our budget unlike every other dept.

If we could hire like 5 full timers, we could really start clearing out the 200 acre park of the invasive plant species. Like 10 teens came in for a day and cleared a decent area a year ago and its largely still clear. We could do so much restoration if our budget was doubled, and we'd still be like 1/100th the local cop budget.

The know-how is very publically available, seeds are cheap, tools are simple, its just labor. Its all moderate-intense physical labor and takes a bit of knowledge (so you're not yanking good plants), but its entirely feasible for even a city to afford it, let alone the "richest nation". Some of the area arguably could just be mown down and replanted, a lot needs a managed burn, some probably could be plown under. None of it is rocket science. It been done before, and is being done.

There is so much work available, that is genuinely productive and would improve the lives of thousands of people, while providing jobs to a lot of interested and devoted people.

And we're nothing. Small fry even in the parks dept. 200 acres, 7 people, and $1m (just spit balling, likely lower). Gates could buy the 100 acres nearby (priced like $10m because the guy doesn't actually want to sell), fund our budget 10x for 100 years, and make what he gave us back before we could cash a check.

I talked to a kid recently, probably around 8 or 9 years old. Talked about the usual stuff we do, about one of our snakes and what it eats. About our responsibility to treat it right, and the difficulties in doing so responsibly. Fairly mature stuff, but I could tell he was interested and actually processing it. It was really touching.

I feel like that kid, in the 10 minutes I talked to them, put more thought, energy, effort into that snake, then Billiam has into anything in his life. And we're doing that daily, with a few hundred people a year. Its small, but its the closest thing to real impact someone like me can achieve.

I have some health problems that restrict me. Nothing major, just hurdles. I got the wrong degree for this work, comp sci ironically. I never planned on teaching and have some level of social anxiety, but now weekly give 30-45 min talks to 40 people. I'm ok financially, not rich but not suffering. I grew up a white cishet in a deeply regressive American environment. If I can do something good, imagine what these bozos could do.

But nope. Just peddling advanced markov chains. Enabling the continued ecocide. We could stop the decline we're seeing, right now. But capital won't let us, because they're playing cookie clicker and can't stop. Atleast I can overcome my adhd once and awhile and close my number go up machine.

focus on 'improving lives'

Oh cool so he's throwing all in behind China and socialism with Chinese characteristics since they're proven experts at that. Right? Right??

Mmm yeah but Hank and John Green's YouTube education syndicate told me Bill Gates is great and amazing and looking out for us. Kurzgesagt too!

Motherfucker thinks framing climate change in "overall human welfare" won't immediately be seized upon as a topic by the far right because the people that need the most welfare will be non-white people fleeing the global south. Either he's out of touch or he's in cahoots with trying to create good conditions for fascists by steering liberals wrong.

I bet these guys actually take credit for China's green energy initiatives. I bet in their minds it was their caterwauling about the emissions from industries they outsourcre to China themselves that changed the world

remember the earlish Internet when nobody disagreed he was the embodiment of Shaitan?

It says a lot that although more evil like his patronage of Epstein as been revealed, that modern libs slot him into the Mark Cuban category of 'good billionaire'

Too many, TOO MANY?? WHAT FUCKING RESOURCES?? ^excluding^ ^China^ ^love^ ^you^ ^guys^

Gates called out the “doomsday view” ... need to make a “strategic pivot” to focus on issues that have the “greatest impact on human welfare.”

"It’s the best way to ensure that everyone gets a chance to live a healthy and productive life no matter where they’re born, and no matter what kind of climate they’re born into," he wrote.

So he's saying "We broke it, we can't fix it, but look at the bright side, we can squeeze the most out of what's left."

1. build huge (clean) energy generation capacity for datacenters
2. AI bubble pops
3. use generation capacity for carbon capture
4. 🐢

Isn't he a pedophile? Why are his opinions being amplified by the media?

Good billionaires are gonna save the world through innovation.

too many resources are spent on overproduction of useless goods and services such as AI and meaningless other projects under the capitalist mode of production. Climate change is never going to stop as long as capitalists control the order.

one would think installing with your beacoup bux solar panels in oil dependent countries would both help them with import accounts, improve lives and reduce emissions. but maybe not, cause that doesn't produce shareholder value or pedo hobnobbing.

with characteristics

We need to stop doing nothing about climate change!

and use all of that energy to start doing nothing about 'improving lives'!

I remember him saying that AI would fix climate change so it doesn't matter in the past. Libs are going to start doing another I liked him before he went crazy for the 2nd time.

Climate change is a doomsday cult. They want it to kill the poor off.