With connections to the Rockefeller family. Also his mom was the one who convinced IBM to give Bill the contract for MS-DOS (which he bought from some other guy).

Didn’t he come from a stupidly rich family and had access to a computer (at a time when it was like having access to a helicopter) whenever he wanted to learn and fiddle around? Isn’t that where he got the print outs?

I never heard of zorin. I went to mint. I originally wanted a more hardcore distro but I decided to save the remaining bit of my sanity for later.

Bond Villains are intelligent and have charm and sophistication.

Musk has none of those.

Prosperity Gospel is a bit older than that. There was a time when people thought that being rich or becoming rich was a direct blessing from god… ironically the people who really first disputed that in Europe were the Dutch, whose trade and double-entry accounting laid the foundation of modern capitalism.

I should mention that in 1001 Arabian Nights, at least in the story of Sinbad the Sailor, Sinbad (as an old man telling his story to a young man coincidentally named Sinbad as well) that his fortune was more luck than anything. At least he acknowledged that.

Even well paid doctors are labor class mostly. Because even in the past doctors weren’t as well paid as today.

People don’t want to work and are lazy is a bullshit talking point even older than 1894.

The first ever modern self-help book ever published (literally called self-help) was made a man with a lifelong history of business and financial failure and yet also still believed that it was no legislation or social assistance, but personal ‘morals’ and ethics are what gets people out of poverty and into comfort.

It was bullshit then and bullshit now. It is such a dark realization that what causes so much quality of life increases is not productivity or technology but legislation and policy.

I dont have a poverty scar but I know what it looks like… also I have been to the US. In many circumstances it is actually hard for me to believe that is the richest country on earth.

I need to get rid of my Amazon prime account…

I never understood online ads. I have been online since the late 90s and the amount of times I bought something because of an online ad is… I think never? I did find something I was interested in (an online coding school) but I don’t recall ever signing up.

I did use sites I was told by ‘live’ ads (youtubers plugging in their sponsors) a few times. But those weren’t conventional ads. I used expressVPN once and used the Angry Video Game Nerd’s sponsorship code, and godaddy web hosting once (because it was learning webdev) from Penn (of Penn and Teller fame). But it was because I was also looking for very specific services.

Yes. Those are critical.

I hate to say it. But some of the best minds out there often don’t have the money to pay for all books and material. And often times those that DO have the money don’t always have the curiosity or desire to learn.

I had no idea there were that many IoT shit around! I actually wanted to make some stuff just have IoT as an exercise (using arduino) but the extent of what is an IoT is just… insane… beds? Showers? Why? Just fucking why?

Then I will make do until then.

As soon as my current phone is paid off I am going to get this. No more fucking Spyware up the ass.

I was mistaken. Thank you for your correction.

Who also has astonishing range, too. He was a serious actor before Airplane. Since halloween is coming up, watch the 1982 movie Creepshow. There was a short with him in it (it is an anthology) and he very convincingly plays a murderous wealthy Creep.

Ash from Evil Dead is a certified badass.

Pen names are ancient, too. Mark Twain? Real name is Samuel Clements. Charles Dickens used the pen name Boz for some reason, and Stephen King used multiple pen names, especially early in his career.

Popes change their names all the time.

Historically they didn’t give a fuck about a lot of things until they are searching for reasons to hate someone or a group of people.

Take drag performance… drag is an ANCIENT tradition in Western theater that goes back into Ancient Greece. Name a comedian active in the black and white film era and I will show you a drag performance they made. Laurel and Hardy, the Three Stooges, they all did it, and exactly no one told them it was wrong.