Does this mean he's expecting for people to get "too afraid" again?
I really don't think that balloon's going to fly any more. More likely we'll all transition to "Gates-spotting" and "flash-mob" his sorry sad-sack-o-shite a** as the happy alternative.
Hi! David! My personal take is that Gates is investing on the expectation that there will be another lockdown and that enough people will believe it is necessary to make his investment pay off. I, on the other hand, am counting on there being a sufficient pushback to render his investment neutral. Regardless of the actual outcome, I think Doctors Are Baffled has come the closest to nailing Gates' thinking.
Good try, but Gates is not a bad investor. Sociopaths are like that. Being shallow top-down types, they see patterns decently better than most as the rest of us tend to see too many details of humanity and our pattern recognition is confused by our assignment of basic human values. Sociopaths don't recognize basic human values. They only see how money and power flow and chase these instead. Yes, the economy has been fine despite the fear porn of the last 30mos. The orders for new Class 8 trucks has exceeded the capacity to manufacture them. Demand is high. Despite the media telling all that AI is the only investment worth noting, we continue to recover from COVID lockdowns and are ramping up reshoring of manufacturing to avoid the issues with supply chain disruptions. Gates sees this and invests accordingly. The economy is much better and has been much better all along than the media publishes. Good news does not sell advertising the way fear motivates viewership.
That Gates is as evil as they come does not diminish his pattern recognition.
But I don’t care about that. I care gates is a putrid human thing that is sucking us dry and endangering us in so many ways. Patterns? BIG WHOOP. The only pattern I want to see is his feet facing the east in some low 6 feet under spot. .
I feel the same way. Seeing Gates as a predator does not lead to countering his behavior. Seeing Gates as a sociopath changes one’s perspective on how he can be treated legally/socially if we decide he is as bad as any sociopath who committed crimes against others. Gates with his vaccine for profit has certainly killed millions but kept most from linking him directly because he acted behind the scenes. What is needed is a prosecution that does the work to link the threads back to him securely enough for Nuremberg type conviction. We do this and no behind the scenes operator will be an innocent investor or bystander.
We need to extend our sense that personal responsibility goes well beyond hands-on and encompasses responsibility for putting the plan in motion.
Invest like a Sociopath. I told Hubs that we need to have a portfolio of Bad Behavior Investments, like pot stocks, liquor and gambling. And...'they' always signal.
Sort of! Look for that which benefits the greatest number of individual consumers in a win/win transaction. By that I mean improves their standard of living. The iPhone did that by bringing the globe's information into the palm of your hand and with maps and etc made daily living far easier to navigate. The ease of access to essentially a mobile encyclopedia has lowered the cost of learning at every level.
Adding to my own note: When I say “…confused by our assignment of basic human values” I mean, we see that the so-called ‘value’ that Gates sees requires taking something of value from others to make ourselves greater. But the rest of us also recognize doing so diminishes others’ value intrinsically and we cannot not do this. Gates and other sociopaths see this as free source of power/wealth for themselves and just walk in and grab what they can without conscience. For example, Zuckerberg takes others’ creative value and personal exposure of likes/dislikes as fodder to sell to advertisers and political manipulators when they do not have access to such personal information elsewhere. As creators of this value, Facebook users should be paid, but they provide this content for free. Without this flow of information, Facebook, Google and other so-called ‘free’ social media sites would not exist or be much less smaller if they had to pay for your information as any broadcaster does to artists.
Bill Gates the Faux Farmer, the Faux Trucker, the Faux Healthcare Tycoon, the Faux Mosquito Entomologist = Satan, parading around as an aging overweight Geek.
Here in my part of TX, the mail is half the time subcontracted out. You'll have a regular old USPS truck for a few weeks, then a guy in a '96 Subaru Outback who literally just stuffs mail willy-nilly into the closest box. I literally put a sign inside my mailbox that hangs in front of the opening that says THIS IS ______ ADDRESS. IT'S NOT _______ OR _______ OR _______ OR ______ (not even joking). Some days it comes at 1PM, somedays at 7 PM. It's mail roulette! "What are we gonna get today and when are we gonna get it?!?!" So exciting!
I happen to live at what must be the axis of the meth & fentanyl universe. That means mail theft is a very frequent occurrence. I find piles of purloined mail (minus anything of value) alongside the road, stuffed into the bushes, etc. in spite of the "locking" mailboxes that most of us have installed. Telling the local PO about this and even gathering these piles of stolen mail is greeted with indifference by postal employees now. Used to be (showing my age) that you so much as steal a post card from mailbox, you'd be looking at doing a dime at Ft. Leavenworth. Not any more...same goes for packages left by the front doorstep by the likes of FedEx or Amazon. Being a 'porch pirate' has reached career status because there's no consequences.
I tip my rural route carrier regularly. 25 bucks at Christmas (so she can go to the movies. By herself.) Then $25 randomly in cards through out the year. It's not that much, but she knows my name and mailbox and I caught her at the end of the road (I am 1/2 mile from my mailbox) and we exchanged phone numbers so she can text me with any large packages.
Yeah. There are lots good ones. Wonder if the independent carriers contracted are better. I’ve known a couple of rural carriers very conscientious. I wouldn’t want to work there myself.
Our normal carrier is about 300 pounds and spends time on her phone in the van. It’s 5:30 pm and no mail. Rumor has it she makes sure she falls sometimes to get work comp time off.
Atlanta mail is particularly special! I like to joke that our mailpeople may be both stoned and dyslexic. We regularly get mail for the wrong address. On the plus side, we met some neighbors :)
USPS is already half-privatized, and it's still being run by Louis DeJoy, who is a big investor in logistics companies and likely one of the wealthy operators who have nocturnal emissions as they fantasize about crashing the USPS and selling it for parts to companies that can make a buck on packages. Or just shutting it down so FedEx, UPS, and DHL don't have to compete with it.
The bad service isn't a natural failure, it's the pilot intentionally nosing the plane into the ground.
Brilliant as always Jenna! Gates is to philanthropy what Jeffery Dhamer was to Culinary Schools (I cannot take credit for that one - who knows, I may have picked it up from your Stack!).
Right?? YOU turned out okay though. Joe Bell was my high school boyfriend. He was a sweet guy. I had NO idea we actually ended up living about 3 hours apart, after all my globetrotting.
Thank you for the laugh in the middle of serious business. I think you’re spot on with your evaluation of Gates and his motives. He does nothing without serving his own selfish interests first, but too many still believe this evil eugenicist is a philanthropist! Fauxlanthropist….loved it! Keep hitting the nail on the head with your humour and your truth, Jenna!
When I went back to school to get my undergrad, in the year 2000, acedemics said the next war would be over water! Chile has let independent farmers to go bankrupt because their crops were suffering because of all the private owners. It’s starting in the US with gates and another couple that own the land north of Cali. Is it legal to own water that runs through your land and is needed as life saving???? Just questioning in general!
I think this Gates fella simply identifies when and what "bad" things can happen to lots of people. Once identified, he develops (and controls) a solution to reduce those bad outcomes. This then generates a huge income flow by cornering the market (or at least a big share of it). Maybe his gazillion acres of farmland begin to generate enormous amounts of food which can be sold at Robber Baron prices. Then we stand in line to pay $9.00 a dozen for eggs. What? That's already happening? Well, see that! What was I just saying? Dark days could be near.
I kinda doubt it. If not for all that money, I'd feel a little bad for the guy. But from what I see, I don't think I would want to hang out with him (if you get my drift).
“Maybe I’m overreacting. Maybe the patron saint of pandemics simply saw an opportunity to turn several million into a few billion, which you would do too if you could so quit being so jealous and resentful.”
Substacker Margaret Ana Alice, a wordsmith of the highest degree came up with the term “Philanthropath” which perfectly describes Billy boy and the rest of his filthy ilk.
Jenna, I'll take "He's Thinking Ahead" for $1,000! Who is ... Bill Gates. He owns the farmland and the delivery trucks, so he gets to decide who eats and who doesn't. We're all playing Jeopardy.
Everyone ends up at some point with a "friend" who's a Dick. And they ALWAYS tell you to come pick up your own tools! Who raises these people?
Jenna, you have a great editor who clearly is looking out for your best interests. Your strike-outs are hilarious.
I'm giving that lady a raise! ;)
Oh, flashback already to when Jeff Bezos bought tons of extra trucks for Prime deliveries because people were too afraid to go shopping in person … 🙄
Fellow theorists, we have a winner!
Does this mean he's expecting for people to get "too afraid" again?
I really don't think that balloon's going to fly any more. More likely we'll all transition to "Gates-spotting" and "flash-mob" his sorry sad-sack-o-shite a** as the happy alternative.
Hi! David! My personal take is that Gates is investing on the expectation that there will be another lockdown and that enough people will believe it is necessary to make his investment pay off. I, on the other hand, am counting on there being a sufficient pushback to render his investment neutral. Regardless of the actual outcome, I think Doctors Are Baffled has come the closest to nailing Gates' thinking.
Have a great New Year!
Good try, but Gates is not a bad investor. Sociopaths are like that. Being shallow top-down types, they see patterns decently better than most as the rest of us tend to see too many details of humanity and our pattern recognition is confused by our assignment of basic human values. Sociopaths don't recognize basic human values. They only see how money and power flow and chase these instead. Yes, the economy has been fine despite the fear porn of the last 30mos. The orders for new Class 8 trucks has exceeded the capacity to manufacture them. Demand is high. Despite the media telling all that AI is the only investment worth noting, we continue to recover from COVID lockdowns and are ramping up reshoring of manufacturing to avoid the issues with supply chain disruptions. Gates sees this and invests accordingly. The economy is much better and has been much better all along than the media publishes. Good news does not sell advertising the way fear motivates viewership.
That Gates is as evil as they come does not diminish his pattern recognition.
But I don’t care about that. I care gates is a putrid human thing that is sucking us dry and endangering us in so many ways. Patterns? BIG WHOOP. The only pattern I want to see is his feet facing the east in some low 6 feet under spot. .
I feel the same way. Seeing Gates as a predator does not lead to countering his behavior. Seeing Gates as a sociopath changes one’s perspective on how he can be treated legally/socially if we decide he is as bad as any sociopath who committed crimes against others. Gates with his vaccine for profit has certainly killed millions but kept most from linking him directly because he acted behind the scenes. What is needed is a prosecution that does the work to link the threads back to him securely enough for Nuremberg type conviction. We do this and no behind the scenes operator will be an innocent investor or bystander.
We need to extend our sense that personal responsibility goes well beyond hands-on and encompasses responsibility for putting the plan in motion.
Invest like a Sociopath. I told Hubs that we need to have a portfolio of Bad Behavior Investments, like pot stocks, liquor and gambling. And...'they' always signal.
Sort of! Look for that which benefits the greatest number of individual consumers in a win/win transaction. By that I mean improves their standard of living. The iPhone did that by bringing the globe's information into the palm of your hand and with maps and etc made daily living far easier to navigate. The ease of access to essentially a mobile encyclopedia has lowered the cost of learning at every level.
Adding to my own note: When I say “…confused by our assignment of basic human values” I mean, we see that the so-called ‘value’ that Gates sees requires taking something of value from others to make ourselves greater. But the rest of us also recognize doing so diminishes others’ value intrinsically and we cannot not do this. Gates and other sociopaths see this as free source of power/wealth for themselves and just walk in and grab what they can without conscience. For example, Zuckerberg takes others’ creative value and personal exposure of likes/dislikes as fodder to sell to advertisers and political manipulators when they do not have access to such personal information elsewhere. As creators of this value, Facebook users should be paid, but they provide this content for free. Without this flow of information, Facebook, Google and other so-called ‘free’ social media sites would not exist or be much less smaller if they had to pay for your information as any broadcaster does to artists.
(Thinking, "Wow. I _could_ have been a sociopath?" Which college turns out the most?)
Also wondering what massive investment Bill had planned for a Kamala win?
Oh my-I'm still laughing over the little puffer jackets for the hairless cat sanctuaries!
;)
Bill Gates the Faux Farmer, the Faux Trucker, the Faux Healthcare Tycoon, the Faux Mosquito Entomologist = Satan, parading around as an aging overweight Geek.
Mmmmm consider potential privatization of the postal service. Perhaps an early stake to dominate that?
We don’t get our mail in our small town until 5:30 pm sometimes. It could hardly get any worse.
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"
But laziness and incompetence damned sure "stay" them. They simply skip days here and there on our route. It can get worse.
Same here, no consistency, misdelivered mail and skipped days. But I just sent something overseas to England and that experience was even worse.
Here in my part of TX, the mail is half the time subcontracted out. You'll have a regular old USPS truck for a few weeks, then a guy in a '96 Subaru Outback who literally just stuffs mail willy-nilly into the closest box. I literally put a sign inside my mailbox that hangs in front of the opening that says THIS IS ______ ADDRESS. IT'S NOT _______ OR _______ OR _______ OR ______ (not even joking). Some days it comes at 1PM, somedays at 7 PM. It's mail roulette! "What are we gonna get today and when are we gonna get it?!?!" So exciting!
I happen to live at what must be the axis of the meth & fentanyl universe. That means mail theft is a very frequent occurrence. I find piles of purloined mail (minus anything of value) alongside the road, stuffed into the bushes, etc. in spite of the "locking" mailboxes that most of us have installed. Telling the local PO about this and even gathering these piles of stolen mail is greeted with indifference by postal employees now. Used to be (showing my age) that you so much as steal a post card from mailbox, you'd be looking at doing a dime at Ft. Leavenworth. Not any more...same goes for packages left by the front doorstep by the likes of FedEx or Amazon. Being a 'porch pirate' has reached career status because there's no consequences.
I tip my rural route carrier regularly. 25 bucks at Christmas (so she can go to the movies. By herself.) Then $25 randomly in cards through out the year. It's not that much, but she knows my name and mailbox and I caught her at the end of the road (I am 1/2 mile from my mailbox) and we exchanged phone numbers so she can text me with any large packages.
Yeah. There are lots good ones. Wonder if the independent carriers contracted are better. I’ve known a couple of rural carriers very conscientious. I wouldn’t want to work there myself.
Same issue out here in east TX. My mail frequently gets delivered to the house down the road. Luckily we know each other and text when that happens.
Sounds exactly like the snail mail here in Charleston.
Our normal carrier is about 300 pounds and spends time on her phone in the van. It’s 5:30 pm and no mail. Rumor has it she makes sure she falls sometimes to get work comp time off.
Atlanta mail is particularly special! I like to joke that our mailpeople may be both stoned and dyslexic. We regularly get mail for the wrong address. On the plus side, we met some neighbors :)
We must live on the same route.
USPS is already half-privatized, and it's still being run by Louis DeJoy, who is a big investor in logistics companies and likely one of the wealthy operators who have nocturnal emissions as they fantasize about crashing the USPS and selling it for parts to companies that can make a buck on packages. Or just shutting it down so FedEx, UPS, and DHL don't have to compete with it.
The bad service isn't a natural failure, it's the pilot intentionally nosing the plane into the ground.
Brilliant as always Jenna! Gates is to philanthropy what Jeffery Dhamer was to Culinary Schools (I cannot take credit for that one - who knows, I may have picked it up from your Stack!).
Fun fact Russel - I went to highschool with Jeffrey Dahmer.
And remember, the Craig’s list killer, Richard Beasley? Grade school with him.
Not a good claim to fame. 😩😂
OMG LAURA!!! What Valerie said!!!
My mind is churning Laura. As much as I would loooove to meet you, something deep inside is saying 'don't do it'.
😂😆😂
Holy cow, where do you live? I need to make sure I never spend time there (jk).
😂 NE Ohio
Right?? YOU turned out okay though. Joe Bell was my high school boyfriend. He was a sweet guy. I had NO idea we actually ended up living about 3 hours apart, after all my globetrotting.
https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/joe-bell/
🫣
oh wowwww.
😂 and mostly 😩
Kathy Lee Gifford graduated a year before I did but I knew her sorta, and her sister, Michelle very much.
There were and still are a lot of criminals in Maryland.
I do not live in that state anymore
Holy cow!
Undoubtedly Odious is a good band name.
LOL I want to be in that band! [*quickly learns to play guitar*]
I thought you said "Brand Name". It would be a great brand name...like Democracy. Worthy to sit on, but will probably give you monkey-pox.
Thank you for the laugh in the middle of serious business. I think you’re spot on with your evaluation of Gates and his motives. He does nothing without serving his own selfish interests first, but too many still believe this evil eugenicist is a philanthropist! Fauxlanthropist….loved it! Keep hitting the nail on the head with your humour and your truth, Jenna!
:) Day made!
Gates and Fauci=Evil MFs
Billy boy owns the land above the Oglala Aquifier in Nebraska and around. He who owns the water?
When I went back to school to get my undergrad, in the year 2000, acedemics said the next war would be over water! Chile has let independent farmers to go bankrupt because their crops were suffering because of all the private owners. It’s starting in the US with gates and another couple that own the land north of Cali. Is it legal to own water that runs through your land and is needed as life saving???? Just questioning in general!
Laws, shmaws. He’s Bill Gates and wants it.
I've always been curious about the origin of Bill Gates' "Microsoft". You don't suppose....
hahahaha and ewwwwwwwwwwwwww
mmmmm, yeah. Looks like I'm not the only one.
I think this Gates fella simply identifies when and what "bad" things can happen to lots of people. Once identified, he develops (and controls) a solution to reduce those bad outcomes. This then generates a huge income flow by cornering the market (or at least a big share of it). Maybe his gazillion acres of farmland begin to generate enormous amounts of food which can be sold at Robber Baron prices. Then we stand in line to pay $9.00 a dozen for eggs. What? That's already happening? Well, see that! What was I just saying? Dark days could be near.
I wonder if he has any real close friends?
Not a chance. Anyone pretending to be his friend is hoping to benefit from it. I'd bet my life on it. (And he deserves it 10000000%)
yes I agree. What a shitty life
I kinda doubt it. If not for all that money, I'd feel a little bad for the guy. But from what I see, I don't think I would want to hang out with him (if you get my drift).
You know, just before the Plandemic delivered … 🙄
“Maybe I’m overreacting. Maybe the patron saint of pandemics simply saw an opportunity to turn several million into a few billion, which you would do too if you could so quit being so jealous and resentful.”
Substacker Margaret Ana Alice, a wordsmith of the highest degree came up with the term “Philanthropath” which perfectly describes Billy boy and the rest of his filthy ilk.
MAA is indeed the Queen! :)
"Philanthropath": 2024 Word of the Year.
Jenna, I'll take "He's Thinking Ahead" for $1,000! Who is ... Bill Gates. He owns the farmland and the delivery trucks, so he gets to decide who eats and who doesn't. We're all playing Jeopardy.
Everyone ends up at some point with a "friend" who's a Dick. And they ALWAYS tell you to come pick up your own tools! Who raises these people?
Serious!!! 🙄