Almost certainly, he's saved far more lives than he's taken at this point.
He scalped Western technophobes pretty hard and tried to hobble a lot of early FOSS efforts (although we came through in the end). Few of the idiots buying Windows XP licences needed that money more then the recipients of the Gates fund, though, so if that's his lifetime transaction it's based.
so what’s your threshold for being a scumbag piece of shit?
In a way that's refreshing. The levels of anti-government sentiment globally has been insane, and was always going to consume itself one way or the other. Power vacuums don't last.
Experience shows democracies work better in just about every way. Mainly, there's questions about how stable they can be over the long term.
I've known people who liked the idea of a dictatorship, but they've all had funny ideas about how they internally work. Palace intrigue and corruption are inevitable and huge, it's never just one potentially-wise individual calling the shots.
Uninventing guns is not actually one of the options. The police are definitely going to have them, because if they didn't they'd be under threat from upstarts with a 3D printer or just a lathe, and they know it.
I really hope a tax hike is the direction he goes with this. The "we'll save billions with AI" thing from the election was bullshit, at the very least. Potentially, conventional digitisation could save quite a bit, but it will probably take a while, and more debt is also imprudent.
Society doesn’t want you to have any negative emotions. I need to know how to not express negative emotions at all whatsoever unless I’m alone.
What about your friends or family? Particularly in some countries, it's true that public displays of unhappiness are taboo. Less-than-totally-public displays are kind of a huge part of people's social lives everywhere.
Half of Canada was fully on the Trump bus the day before the tariffs hit.
I'd say that's a high estimate. Maybe 20%, with another 60% that just wasn't worried about it very much.
This isn't new, unfortunately. Fascism was trendy and influential in polite circles all through the 1920's and early 30's. Then they actually got to put their ideas in practice. Humans can be pretty shit like that.
"Whoops, we pinky swear we'll investigate ourselves for that. Anyway, since they're all gone now, we can go back to normal relations with the rest of the world, right?"
I'm probably one of the people OP is thinking of. Before my time he was apparently a massive bastard, and he even admits to it. These days, as far as I can tell, he rescues Africans and doesn't do much else. Every other famous billionaire is higher on my shit list.
Yes, this hasn't closed the door forever (as far as I can tell), and Carney doesn't seem like an idiot, so I hold out hope this is some kind of maneuvering, and he's still as "elbows up" as he was on the campaign trail.
Yeah, if you're looking at food in China, there's a real argument to avoid anything artificial-seeming because of incidents like this. I'm told it's part of the reason why wet markets are so popular - there's no doubt if your meat is real and unadulterated when you just saw it running around.
Sometimes, or sometimes they get a pass based on connections. Those aren't mutually exclusive, either; scapegoats have long been a useful political tool.
In some European countries, most police are unarmed. It seems to work okay. Here in Canada, they all carry guns, but it's serious paperwork if they ever have to unholster it.
Almost certainly, he's saved far more lives than he's taken at this point.
He scalped Western technophobes pretty hard and tried to hobble a lot of early FOSS efforts (although we came through in the end). Few of the idiots buying Windows XP licences needed that money more then the recipients of the Gates fund, though, so if that's his lifetime transaction it's based.
It's not clear good people exist at all.