Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever
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Making money/influence. It's such a scam his "Bill and Melinda Charity" (no taxes on charities).
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 22:24 zuletzt editiert vonIt's still giving money away though? Why would you want there to be taxes on charity?
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......that Linus and Bill kiss? Will they or won't they?
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 22:29 zuletzt editiert vonGay (kernel) panic
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the ends don't justify the means.
Hitler experimented on hundreds of thousands of Jews and the medical world benefited from it greatly.
does that mean you're going to nuance the Nazi regime because they "did some good"?
no amount of good is worth the ounce of evil used to make it.
edit: if the ends justify the means, where do you draw the line? how many lives must suffer in order for the goal to be achieved? 1 life? 10? 1 million?
and to those of you claiming Godwin's law, I used it as an example. I don't think Bill Gates is Hitler, I never even said anything like that. we could easily use the Tuskegee Airmen and the US Department of Health. How many of those families had to suffer to make the ends justified in your opinion.
IMO none. there is no amount of loss of life that is acceptance for any means. life is precious and unique and deserves to be protected.
edit 2: I didn't realize humanity sold out their morals and ethics for the "greater good". my mistake thinking we were better than that. sorry.
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 22:32 zuletzt editiert vonWe found him! https://xkcd.com/261/
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It's still giving money away though? Why would you want there to be taxes on charity?
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 22:58 zuletzt editiert vonThe point here is that in many jurisdictions doing charity exempts you from certain taxes, and it is possible to shuffle money around under the disguise of philanthropy while still getting all the financial benefits like an actual charity
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Gay (kernel) panic
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 23:00 zuletzt editiert vonAt the disco
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Clippy!
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 23:05 zuletzt editiert vonNow powered by Copilot!
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Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 23:29 zuletzt editiert vonLinus looks old now
I guess that's how time works but still...
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schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 23:32 zuletzt editiert von -
So, which one of them heard boss music?
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 23:33 zuletzt editiert vonWhat if they both did
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Linus looks old now
I guess that's how time works but still...
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 23:37 zuletzt editiert vonI said in another thread about this, he looks like an older Tom Scott.
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Their pr firm seems to function very well at least.
Guess you're going to whitewash bezos, musk and zuckerberg next?
Edit: lot of free work done for the magnificent mr Gates and his tax avoiding fundation. Do you think you'll get some crumbles from the rich mans table?
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 23:41 zuletzt editiert vonLol no. Of all the sleazy and greasy millionaires, Gates is one of the few whose actions speaks for themselves. Dude has been doing noble causes for most of my life.
I'm all for talking shit about the rich, but it better be true.
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Could they have met in a better place than in front of a Jotnar's pubes
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 23:51 zuletzt editiert vonlol what is with the pube art
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It's still giving money away though? Why would you want there to be taxes on charity?
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 23:54 zuletzt editiert vonIt's more nuanced though. Here's how rich people use charities to gain wealth:
Rich person has tons of money that would be taxed if bill Y passes. Rich person creates a charity and donated 20% of what they would had to pay to the IRS to the charity, with that money the charity uses half for good causes and half is given to X lobby company, which then lobbies politicians to avoid passing that bill.
In the end, the rich person saved 80% of what they would had to pay.
Yeah, 10% went to good causes but imagine what the society could afford if 100% went through instead of 0.
This is a very rough outline of how they do it, but the summary is that they use charities to donate to lobbies while skipping taxes on the donation itself.
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the ends don't justify the means.
Hitler experimented on hundreds of thousands of Jews and the medical world benefited from it greatly.
does that mean you're going to nuance the Nazi regime because they "did some good"?
no amount of good is worth the ounce of evil used to make it.
edit: if the ends justify the means, where do you draw the line? how many lives must suffer in order for the goal to be achieved? 1 life? 10? 1 million?
and to those of you claiming Godwin's law, I used it as an example. I don't think Bill Gates is Hitler, I never even said anything like that. we could easily use the Tuskegee Airmen and the US Department of Health. How many of those families had to suffer to make the ends justified in your opinion.
IMO none. there is no amount of loss of life that is acceptance for any means. life is precious and unique and deserves to be protected.
edit 2: I didn't realize humanity sold out their morals and ethics for the "greater good". my mistake thinking we were better than that. sorry.
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 23:55 zuletzt editiert vonI hate billionaires as much as the next gal, but I think comparing Bill Gates to Hitler is a bit extreme
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I hate billionaires as much as the next gal, but I think comparing Bill Gates to Hitler is a bit extreme
schrieb am 22. Juni 2025, 23:59 zuletzt editiert vonWelcome to Lemmy, heh.
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Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 00:05 zuletzt editiert von brucethemoose@lemmy.worldI hate to sound preachy, but this is a good example of “rivals” peacefully meeting.
So many people I meet IRL seem conditioned to think this person they hate on the internet would be someone they’d shout at like they’re an axe murderer, in the middle of a murder. It’s the example they see. Death threats are, like, normal on Facebook or TV News or whatever they’re into, apparently.
Again at risk of reaching... this feels like positive masculinity to me.
And leaders acting like adults.
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I said in another thread about this, he looks like an older Tom Scott.
schrieb am 23. Juni 2025, 00:06 zuletzt editiert vonTom Scott with receding hairline
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the ends don't justify the means.
Hitler experimented on hundreds of thousands of Jews and the medical world benefited from it greatly.
does that mean you're going to nuance the Nazi regime because they "did some good"?
no amount of good is worth the ounce of evil used to make it.
edit: if the ends justify the means, where do you draw the line? how many lives must suffer in order for the goal to be achieved? 1 life? 10? 1 million?
and to those of you claiming Godwin's law, I used it as an example. I don't think Bill Gates is Hitler, I never even said anything like that. we could easily use the Tuskegee Airmen and the US Department of Health. How many of those families had to suffer to make the ends justified in your opinion.
IMO none. there is no amount of loss of life that is acceptance for any means. life is precious and unique and deserves to be protected.
edit 2: I didn't realize humanity sold out their morals and ethics for the "greater good". my mistake thinking we were better than that. sorry.
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Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.
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