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Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by Voloskaya on Thursday May 08, 2025 @11:16AM (#43926899)
Ah yes, saving millions of kids’ lives through vaccination and virtually eradicating polio is a way to make up for … checks notes… bundling a browser into an OS and not being nice with open source.

Some grass is in need of touching.

Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by dekrg on Thursday May 08, 2025 @11:25AM (#43927028)
Yes and Bill Gates is such a good guy that he even remained friends with Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein's conviction. To help children of course. Truly a Bill Gates is a true hero looking out for all the children.
Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by gambiting on Thursday May 08, 2025 @11:34AM (#43927145)
Do you have any details on the exact nature of their relationship, so we can read up on it?
Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by dekrg on Thursday May 08, 2025 @11:54AM (#43927408)
You mean aside his wife divorcing him over his relationship with Epstein and it being widely reported in the news? I guess we will never know if Epstein and Gates even knew each other.

For anyone actually curious and unaware there are plenty of new articles that talk about Gates and Epstein, it's not some hidden secret. However it's a topic those who like Gates philanthropy like to ignore and pretend it doesn't exist as can be seen in this thread.

Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by gambiting on Thursday May 08, 2025 @11:57AM (#43927440)
>>You mean aside his wife divorcing him over his relationship with Epstein

She divorced him over Gates cheating, not over the relationship with Epstein - if I'm wrong please correct me.

>>like to ignore and pretend it doesn't exist

I honestly don't want to, like the other commented said "just google" - so I "just googled" and none of the articles I found suggest they had anything beyond a very superficial relationship where they met a few times. Again, if I'm wrong please correct me.

Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by dekrg on Thursday May 08, 2025 @12:05PM (#43927540)
Yeah, sure. Just cheating.

>In a 2022 interview, Melinda said, “I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no. I made that clear to him,” per Page Six, adding that she only met the child sex offender once because she “wanted to see who” he was. “I regretted it the second I walked in the door,” she went on, adding, “He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. My heart breaks for these women.” https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/melinda-ga...

If you just Google what Bill Gates later said then of course you will find how he only met a few times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...

Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by gambiting on Thursday May 08, 2025 @02:36PM (#43929677)
Well but that's exactly what I was asking for - thank you for posting this. I asked to be corrected and I was.

But let me quote what the article you linked says:

"claimed that Bill had met the disgraced financier on “numerous occasions.” One of those meetings allegedly lasted for hours."

Does that sound to you like they had a deep relationship of any kind? I'm just trying to form my own view on it - and that just doesn't read to me like the kind of relationship that people try to portray it as. If I met with someone "numerous times, sometimes for hours" you wouldn't immediately think we are friends or that we even share any values together, would you?

>> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...

I can't access that without a sub, you'll have to give me the jist or some quotes.

Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by exoverito on Thursday May 08, 2025 @03:13PM (#43930158)
Bro you're on Hacker News and you don't know how to get past a NY Times paywall. Embarrassing, though unsurprising given your blue-pilled beliefs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250505081209/https://www.nytim...

Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by gambiting on Thursday May 08, 2025 @03:28PM (#43930329)
What do you mean by blue pilled beliefs?

And thank you for the archive link, I didn't know you could do it this way. If this surprises you then I'd link to link you this:

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by exoverito on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @01:19AM (#44038041)
By blue pilled I mean mainstream basic bitch beliefs. The type of shit that indoctrinated slaves believe. That may be harsh language to you, but it is what it is. If you're human, I have sympathy for your plight.

You are welcome for the archive link. I already knew what XKCD comic you were going to post before I opened it. The irony is that you don't know the basics of hacking and news, yet want to pontificate on the highest levels of reality. That is evidence of a skill issue, which permeates everything about your life, and resultingly, all your beliefs and writings.

Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by Voloskaya on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @09:45AM (#44041624)
> blue pilled > mainstream > basic bitch > skill issue

The irony of thinking you are edgy and enlightened, while all your beliefs and idioms are exactly the new mainstream norms is pretty funny. The basic-bitchness sneaks on you faster than you can see it coming I guess.

Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by exoverito on Saturday May 24, 2025 @12:14AM (#44078715)
The irony is you are using words, how droll. Very boring take.
Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by foldr on Thursday May 08, 2025 @11:40AM (#43927235)
Not OP, but this information is easily available by Googling ‘Bill Gates Epstein’. I’m not trying to be snarky. It’s just a widely covered news story.
Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by gambiting on Thursday May 08, 2025 @11:49AM (#43927339)
So I googled exactly that, and what comes up is mostly about Epstein trying to extort gates:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/21/jeffrey-epst...

Gates addressing their relationship:

https://people.com/bill-gates-addresses-jeffrey-epstein-frie... https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/business/bill-gates-regrets-j...

Articles saying that they met "sometimes for a few hours":

https://pagesix.com/2025/04/15/celebrity-news/melinda-gates-...

Etc etc.

Nothing (as far as I can see, and tbh I'm not going to read past the first page of google results) suggesting that they were close friends in any meaning of the word.

Like, I don't know what kind of conclusion OP wants people to draw out of this. A lot of people were "friends" with Epstein, since he knew pretty much everyone, there are pictures of him smiling and shaking hands with lots of well known VIPs.

Which is why I asked OP for a source so we can just read about this - the whole "do your whole research" thing is just such an easy cop out because like you said "just google" doesn't really confirm anything, it's just a bunch of news articles from more or less reputable sources.

Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by foldr on Thursday May 08, 2025 @12:38PM (#43927969)
This is the first result for me:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...

"Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past".

Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth by lobotomizer on Thursday May 08, 2025 @12:37PM (#43927954)
More like making up for enabling genocide through critical support for the Israeli and US militaries.