GreenKnight23
@GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 13 hours ago:
it’s a nonprofit he directly benefits from because it has his name on it. he directly benefits from it by using it as a way to sway political power. he directly benefits from it through financial gains paid through the organization.
the entire concept of the foundation is contingent on his financial success. something of which he is well known for destroying lives for.
so tell me, how many of those ruined lives were acceptable for the good that his charity does? how many more lives must be ruined for the good to continue to be acceptable? would you find it acceptable if your life was destroyed to continue the good his charity does? would you be willing to accept your life to be ruined or ended to support the continuation of his charity?
I don’t understand why you don’t see the obvious correlation between the two so I’ll over simplify it.
bad man makes bad money making people suffer. bad money makes good stuff happen under bad man name. bad man still bad man doing good stuff for bad reasons.
you sit and justify his actions by arguing he’s doing good things. I question if he’s doing good things just to do them or if they’re a byproduct of him “cleansing” his name. after all, bad men do bad things. Ever heard of Alfred Nobel?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 13 hours ago:
I didn’t compare them, but in your mind you understood it that way.
I used Hitler as an example, an extreme one, but still an example of “the ends justify the means”.
could have use any number of examples, but I went with one I thought everyone could relate to. clearly I miscalculated the selfishness of modern day philosophies.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 13 hours ago:
He is not a good person. But the foundation has done some good work.
seems like a justification to me dude. you’re literally justifying his indiscretions, that you even call out, by saying the charity he heads “has done some good work”.
And I sure as hell don’t white wash Bill Gates. You don’t get to that level of wealth and dominance without cracking skulls and ruining lives every step of the way.
I don’t know if you’re actually being misleading or confusing by accident but calling attention to it being “nuanced” is a clear indicator that your argument supports that the “ends justify the means”.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 16 hours ago:
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.
- Comment on AI applications are producing cleaner cities, smarter homes and more efficient transit 19 hours ago:
yeah and with AI we can eat shit that tastes like pumpkin pie.
- Comment on Oh no 19 hours ago:
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 1 day ago:
US imperialism didn’t happen until the 1950s, well after the war.
this was, in part, due to the private investments from large American companies at the time. in-fact, the American economy was booming for three reasons
- war was over and people were desperate to find stability and peace
- Americans at home got through the war mostly unscathed and now had an abundance of work which in-turn made an abundance of money to spend
- Europe desperately needed materials and products to rebuild their own economy, this only further boosted American GDP from a previously untouched market. private investment took place from American companies within Europe to increase profits further.
in a sense, because Europe was so weak after the war it only fed US corporate imperialism. Had Europe been able to stand on its own the United States might not have had such an industrial boon and similarities between Europe and the US might have not been so significant.
one might even draw the strong correlation between American corporate interests and total subservience of government alliances at that time. our government had, up until then, mostly stayed neutral to concerns between corporations and citizens. this changed though because of the newly created military industrial complex that was created to feed the war. afterwards you had defense contractors that saw dollar signs, and the tradition still goes to this day.
speculation on my part, the political climate of the current day is the fruit bore from that union of corporate and state all those years ago and this has been the agenda of the American elite all along and they are currently in the final seconds of the “game of thrones”.
- Comment on Brand awareness 1 day ago:
they knew exactly what they did.
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 1 day ago:
America was the standard for a Democratic Republic after WW2.
after the war we helped most of Europe return to normal and even improved quality of life and living standards. part of that help came with stipulations on how the US had control within those countries that had help.
Had the US not stepped in at the time to stabilize Europe, another war would have likely happened and another, and another.
My guess, most of Europe would have fallen under Russian rule, or at the very least heavily influenced by, if the US didn’t step up.
I suppose European’s don’t look at how bad the war left Europe and often just want to forget the atrocities, but that’s not an excuse for blaming the hand that helped you in your time of need.
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 1 day ago:
no it isn’t. yours might be, but not mine.
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 1 day ago:
- Comment on The future is amazing 1 day ago:
commented by someone who doesn’t really understand that
- this is a fucking joke
- the soldiers of Vietnam were not as mentally prepared or desensitized to the killing of a war like current generations
- this is exactly how it would be today, because look at footage from Afghanistan and how the soldiers acted then
- Comment on Art imitates life 1 day ago:
that woman;
- fucking uncle joey
- getting back to business
- Comment on Birthday Gift for Grandma 1 day ago:
if it’s the plastic housing you could probably use some wd-40 on a soft rag like a sock or old T-shirt. make sure you clean it up with some IPA immediately afterwards though.
if it’s the screen crystal you can buy replacements online for around $4-$8.
- Comment on The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare 1 day ago:
cloudflare is a symptom of the corporatization of the internet.
they goals are counter to the goals of the internet to be a distributed repository of communities and information.
CF not only unifies all the communications through their services, which can cause worldwide outages (happens literally every year), but collects and tracks users across all other network requests.
CF is anti-privacy and pro-corporate interests.
- Comment on Nothing more to be said 1 day ago:
I am unsurprised this nazi garbage was posted from a db0 user.
- Comment on The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare 2 days ago:
it’s about time someone fuckin did it.
it’s a shame it’s Russia though.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 2 days ago:
I had this problem.
I stopped talking to them.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 2 days ago:
what a Joe thing to do.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 3 days ago:
hope you proofread those emails, least you send part of a romance novel that the AI hallucinated into being.
- Comment on McPenis 3 days ago:
- Comment on Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations 3 days ago:
it’s great. eventually small businesses will need to rely on FOSS solutions because the costs are counter prohibitive on a sliding scale that’s heavy towards VC funded companies.
honestly if I was a VC right now, I’d be cozying up to the major PAAS/SAAS vendors and investing with them to drive small businesses to make the choice to get VC or go out of business because it’s too costly to compete and operate.
Thankfully I’m not a soulless husk.
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
but that’s not my first look as the title states.
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
concepts that have been whipped up in Photoshop aren’t “first looks”
- Comment on And if so, one or both? 4 days ago:
I’ve wore one before, but only one.
it’s been passed down in my family for generations.
- Comment on The real question is, which color? 4 days ago:
two things.
- nobody will get it
- I might accidentally swap it with my real poison pill and actually “do the deed”
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 4 days ago:
if you sell something for $1 at 10am your $1 still buys $1 at 10pm.
in crypto, it’s easily manipulated, and that’s by design. it’s a scam because the only people who have that control are the wealthy.
If I sell 1BT worth of something at 10am, it could be worth 2BT at 10pm, but it could also be worth .1BT equally.
the purpose of a Fiat currency is economic supremacy that is backed by the governing body and the economy that uses it.
tell me, what governing body or economy is crypto backed by?
- Comment on Midweek feels 4 days ago:
got it. you’re not just misinformed, you’re actually racist.
welcome to my block list.
- Comment on Midweek feels 4 days ago:
you mocked a holiday that is a celebration of the abolition of slavery in the US by calling it a “weird” holiday.
what’s weird about it?
- Comment on Midweek feels 5 days ago:
did you say the quiet part out loud or did you forget to take off your hood before you commented?
