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Clockwork orange.

It's like that chip tune webpage where the entire track is encoded in the url.

My grandfather made it a point to lift everyone until he couldn't get then off the ground anymore.

It doesn't seem so.

The actual interview referenced in the article is somewhat longer: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/magazine/bill-gates-foundation-closing-2045.html

From what I can gather there are at least 3 reasons to end it earlier:

It was always planned to have an end date. This was set before they even knew what they're were going to do. They now have a clear plan, where they can say "a human life can be saved for this amount of dollars", so they don't need to wait for anything.

Bill Gates criticizes post-life foundations, stating that they're in risk of getting eaten by administration costs. I don't know about that, but it appears that he doesn't trust others to as good a job as he wants to do himself.

Warren Buffett is doubling the contributions for the foundation, but only for as long as Bill and Melinda are alive. Gates is 69 years old, so blowing it all in 20 years seems to be a realistic timeframe if they want to take full advantage of Warren Buffett's pledge.

And? What happens next?

I acknowledge your feeling at this moment. However, politics are decisions about the future. Will you welcome them then? Will you accept their votes on your side at the next election?

They're misled idiots for sure, but there's no benefits in keeping them in that position just out of spite.

Go to the singles park on a bicycle. Ride somewhere with cute single girls in your area. Fall on the bicycle and hurt your knee. Wait for help. If the cute girls don't help, they're probably not that nice. Phew, you just saved a bullet there.

Is it this kind of stupid methods you want?

Okay, buy a shitload of oranges. Put them in a bag. Cut a hole in the bag, so it barely keeps together. Go to the park and find the cute girls again. Give the bag a firm shake so it falls apart and the oranges start rolling all over the place. Look sad. Attempt to pick up the oranges but keep dropping some, until they come and help.

Now for the next one, you will need to get out of your comfort zone. Go to the grocery store. Find the laundry detergent isle. Keep staring at the products until a cute single girl comes by. Look confused. Say to her: "excuse me, I'm really confused about all these, which one are you getting?" Eventually thank her for help and turn the conversation into something else " I'm new in this town, do you know any other great places to get laundry detergents (or whatever)"

Oh, I forgot to mention, you need to be wearing a suit or at least a blazer and proper shoes. None of the above will work very well if you look like a hobo who washes with a toilet brush.

They're just big dogs.

Coffee dispenser at work. It acts up like it's a printer. Replace left cartridge. Replace right cartridge. Cleaning required. Thorough cleaning required. Unknown leak. Heating water please wait. Unknown error. Fuck that, I'll piss in a cup myself if I don't get my coffee now.

Then there's also the towel roll thing in the toilets. I swear it's stuck for longer time than it's functioning. It'd be a full time job keeping that rolling throughout the day

According to the source, he didn't saturate it.

I drive by something like that daily. Some days it does look like that, but it mostly looks like a regular manure field. Capturing it on camera is a matter of timing.

It's a different culture altogether, where a job is expected"for life", which also makes it difficult to quit a job. People are literally hiring other people to deliver their resignation notices because it's impossible to do in person.

You could use your ticket money to pay off your mortgage, so all of your spendings are costing you the same interest at minimum.

So if you have a mortgage, you're not supposed to buy anything until the house is paid off?

The guy bankrupts everything he touches. Go ahead, take down the church.

What do mean "how long"? It's exactly what happened here?

It's when you start a guitar pedal collection (and call it a studio) instead of playing the guitar.

It's just another example of their incompetence.

They ought to be proud of labeling the tariffed products, so that customers could easier choose the domestic brands, which supposedly is the point of having the tariffs in the first place.

Attempting to hide it only shows that they realize how bad the tariffs really are.

This question is really wide. You'll have to narrow down what the challenge really is.

Start by doing a mind map on a piece of paper.

You'll need one for the product, but you'll also need one for the business.

Once our have the entire idea spread out like that, you can start researching the things you don't know or contact people who do know those specifics.

People ought to deny ICE service for a start. Anyone in their vicinity can contribute and nothing is too small.

If they want anything from you, it's your duty to make sure they can't have it.

If they order a sandwich, they should be told the sandwich maker is broken today. Every day. If they need a car repair, that part will take six months to arrive. When they pay for electricity, their payment was misplaced. Their garages should be blocked by parked cars. The garbage truck should accidentally drive past their property again this week. Etc.

Don't be an ICE collaborator.

I like his suit.

It's a jacket.

I just think that the head of the brush is a rather arbitrary threshold for when a toilet brush is considered icky or not. The whole thing, including your hands, go into the toilet when you use it. Being able to detach the brush head hand free is a very small but costly improvement. I'd go as far as calling it a false sense of security.

Also, I wash my butthole when I shower. With my hand.