this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
544 points (99.1% liked)

Technology

72285 readers
2531 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He said that he was giving away 99%+ 30 years ago, it's just publicity stunts, or as Kyrgizon explains below they "give" things to nonprofits that they control. Why? They no longer pay taxes. So nice!

Bill gates is another billionaire mentally ill evil crap person, no different than elon or zuckenberg etc.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

hes a billionaire, with a veneer of "philantrophy", which means hes not genuine. there were plenty of ytbers that are like this had a veneer of progressivism, while turning hard right in the end.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Exactly.

They all have PR firms, we know that because elon bought in on his own PR and booted his in 2018 (IIRC).