• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    This guy may be one of the worst people to ever exist on this planet…

    Before you dismiss this notion, imagine what a trillion dollars could do for the world.

    It’s like if you put 10 people in a room, but only one person gets a snack. Except he actually was given a thousand snacks. And everyone else is in that room is in the early stages of starvation.

    And that guy isn’t sharing, even though he is only going to be in that room for a week at most. No, he wants all the food. He doesn’t care that the other nine people soon will be dead.

  • Clutter@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Which is why, we all agreed to pay taxes instead lof etting individuals decide what to spend the money on.

    And then have elections, fair ones. To choose the people making the decisions about what to pay and what not to.

  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 days ago

    This stock photo upsets me. It’s not AI because AI would be wrong and terrible in excitingly DIFFERENT ways.

    American currency is simply not printed that way.

    The serial numbers are applied in a separate pass, after printing is completed. And they won’t all be the same.

    The notes are printed in sheets with a flat plate, not a newspaper-style continuous roll.

    Come on. Thry literally do public tours where you can see the process. It’s free. Send someone down with a Nikon if you have to. There’s no reason to be this wrong on something this trivial.

    • evil_andy@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      However, you can buy full sheets of currency (edit: from the bureau of printing and engraving) that are for novelty purposes and the way they get around it is all of the serial numbers are the same. So they do actually print full sheets where all the serial numbers are the same. The only reason I know that is my grandfather had one. Supposedly the reason was if you happen to cut it yourself you “could only use one of them”.

  • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    (high IQ)

    I always say if you have to constantly tell people…

    “I’m actually really smart”.

    “I’m actually a good person”.

    “I’m actually not racist/sexist/bigoted”.

    Then it must be because you know others see the opposite.

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
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    6 days ago

    We all know that he is crazy and there is much better proof of that than “sadly, yes”.

    I’m much more interested in that number, is it really true? And more info about who she donated to. According to Fortune:

    MacKenzie Scott is using her $26 billion philanthropy push to rescue organizations in danger after the Trump administration’s funding cuts

    Of course she’s using her own organization and saves a lot on taxes, but still, good on her. Divorcing that alien & using his ill-gotten money to do some good.

  • Stern@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Musk could octuple her donations and still be one of the richest people alive, but he’d rather bitch.

    • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Do we want him donating money to causes he thinks would make the world a better place?

      I can’t even imagine what he would pick? Raze the rainforest? Bolivian coup? Brain implants for people with skin colour darker than a crème caramel?

  • HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    What’s their actual outlook on this, are they saying that charity causes dependence or what the fuck is it - I’m guessing this is the natural endpoint of the Ayn Rand “virtue of selfishness” bullshit that these predators are using to sound like members of a rigorous scientific libertarian intelligentsia instead of just run of the mill filthy-rich dipshits.

  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 days ago

    She donated several million to my alma mater for it allowing people to have upward mobility. In their world poor people having better lives is a bad thing…