This thread is so embarrassing.

Genius.

Kakistoctacy.

You’re exhausting.

Yes, all billionaires are bad, just like all mountains are big. But some mountains are bigger than others. Amazing concept, I know.

Sure, but Bill Gates is as benign as it gets.

I mean if we are going to spend any money on anything, research and education is about as useful as it gets.

These are billionaire CEOs, not artists. There’s nothing particularly mysterious about their work, which you can learn all about from the many, many self-fellating autobiographies their ghost writers churn out every year.

I can’t imagine how hard it must be to manage a company as big and complex as YouTube.

To be fair, not at all. Someone in her position would be making broad decisions, such as “should we have a downvote button,” and spending her time courting advertisers and handling the whiny board of directors, who are mostly geriatric babies.

As a cohort, the American gerontocracy is uniquely shitty. You almost have to admire the boomers’ tenacity to destroy everything before they die.

To be fair, being smart is famously correlated with getting hit in the head for a living.

Depends on whether you’re supporting the right side (if there is one) and on the consequences of arming a particular group of insurgents.

I would say everyone should be intelligent and kind. I would say all religious conservatives should die of the flu. I would say no species should go extinct for a while.

I mean these are all desirable outcomes with no bearing on reality.

I think that anyone with HIV who engages in sexual activity for any reason without explicit fully-informed consent is reprehensible.

How would you feel in any other context:

1. Going to the doctor’s office and being injected with an HIV-laced needle.
2. Getting food that contains an HIV-laced needle.
3. Receiving a little pin-pick of HIV when you visit the grocery store

There’s no transaction, sexual or otherwise, where you would put up with people knowingly giving you HIV.

What the actual fuck?

Dude, if you have HIV and you go around fucking people, you’re despicable. No offense.

Go forth and spread HIV.