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[...] Steve Wozniak [75th birthday]: "I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for"

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  • L lfrith@lemmy.ca

    Dexter as far as serial killers go was pretty nice compared to the average serial killer. He brought donuts and glides like a lizard on ice.

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    bussygyatt@feddit.org
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    #66

    I honestly wouldn’t mind a billionare that ran around in the night using their billionare powers to bankrupt other billionares (or dumping their mutilated corpses in the bay, also fine)

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    • alessandro@lemmy.caA alessandro@lemmy.ca
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      iavicenna@lemmy.world
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      #67

      yea this is the guy Elon tried to PR himself as (and possibly succeeded for a while when he wasn’t as popular), but shit starts to smell fast.

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      • tropicaldingdong@lemmy.worldT tropicaldingdong@lemmy.world

        Sure.

        But there is still “a nicest serial killer” out there.

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        D_C
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        #68

        I’d rather be murdered by the nicest serial killer than any of the others.

        Logic dictates that he’d use a ‘nice’ way to do it, such as laughing gas, or something.
        Over slowly skinning me alive and dunking me in a salt bath.

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          tigerace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          #69

          Wow, some uplifting news which proves there are still some good people on this earth. I needed that, thanks! ❤

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          • S sabinstargem@lemmy.today

            It was him, not Steve Jobs, who deserved to be Apple’s guiding light.

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            valmond@lemmy.world
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            #70

            But could he curl his goatee like jobs? I think not!

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            • MrSilkwormM MrSilkworm

              Here’s a guy that actually tried to make something good, even if the other guy didn’t let him. He worked to live and not lived to work. Yet he still has 10 million and a couple of houses, which definetely doesn’t make him a billionaire, but he has enough to put him in the “fuck you” position

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              valmond@lemmy.world
              wrote on last edited by valmond@lemmy.world
              #71

              Yeah maybe he’s like bill gates and gave away large portions of his wealth, to himself…

              Stuff like this needs to be thoroughly checked before it becomes “heartwarming”.

              Edit: my point: don’t just trust them, verify.

              Edit: seems to have angered the bill gates boot lickers lol

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              • B but_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world

                That’s like saying someone is the nicest serial killer on earth

                Edit: it is disheartening seeing so many people on here defending billionaires, we are fucked as a species

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                trolololol@lemmy.world
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                #72

                Wouldn’t it be nice if serial killers joined a club where they serially kill each other? Just throwing an idea out there, so we don’t need a Luigi club to do the dirt work for them.

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                • lime!L lime!

                  only for people who understand catholicism

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                  redditrefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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                  #73

                  I don’t understand much about Catholicism but I do know they cream their pants for “saints.”

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                    niktemadur@lemmy.world
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                    #74

                    The Woz is BOSS!

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                    • B but_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world

                      That’s like saying someone is the nicest serial killer on earth

                      Edit: it is disheartening seeing so many people on here defending billionaires, we are fucked as a species

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                      megaultrachicken@lemmy.world
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #75

                      That’s like saying someone is the nicest serial killer on earth

                      Yeah that’s a fair statement someone could make. You wanna get killed by the serial killer that just poisons you in your sleep or you wanna get killed by the one that removes your skin and dismembers you alive? See the difference?

                      it is disheartening seeing so many people on here defending billionaires, we are fucked as a species

                      Literally no one is doing that here (“ALL BILLIONAIRES ARE BAD”) Saying one thing isn’t as bad as the other isn’t a defense of the former.

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                      • iavicenna@lemmy.worldI iavicenna@lemmy.world

                        yea this is the guy Elon tried to PR himself as (and possibly succeeded for a while when he wasn’t as popular), but shit starts to smell fast.

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                        duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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                        #76

                        There are a few real deals out there, but they never get the same attention as the con artists. Apple brought back the wrong Steve.

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                        • F fauxliving@lemmy.world

                          This is why all of the megarich are selfish assholes.

                          The good people give their money away.

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                          9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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                          #77

                          The good people don’t become billionaires in the first place

                          You have extra money to name a hospital wing after yourself? Should have been taxed appropriately in the first place so that the hospital didnt need to sell naming rights just to fill a funding gap…

                          You have extra money to donate to your family charity? Should have been paid as appropriate wages to your workers instead of accumulating in your personal net worth…

                          All billionaire philanthropy is a failure of policy that allowed them to unjustly accumulate those billions through exploting others, thereby creating most of the problems that they “solve” through their philanthropy later in life

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                          • W woodscientist@lemmy.world

                            Can we make “secular saints” a thing? Why should we reserve the title of “Saint” specifically for the Catholic Church? I think we should just get in the habit of referring to any unambiguously good person, who has performed great acts of generosity and selflessness, as a saint. They don’t even have to be religious. If someone wants to interpret it religiously, they can say that anyone so good is almost certainly bound for Heaven, but it need not be religious. Why can’t we have secular saints? Why can’t we have Saint Stephen of San Jose or Saint Fred of Latrobe?

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                            PastafARRian
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                            #78

                            Sure, let’s not give them a choice though. Aggressive wealth tax caps at $100M, you get a park plaque and sainthood for each billion we redistribute to UBI.

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                            • R redditrefugee69@lemmynsfw.com

                              I don’t understand much about Catholicism but I do know they cream their pants for “saints.”

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                              lime!
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                              #79

                              i have basically never been exposed to it at all, except in assassin’s creed 2

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                              • S sabinstargem@lemmy.today

                                There is a Thexder game for the PS3 & PSP, if that interests you.

                                Thexder NEO - trailer

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                                xthexder@l.sw0.com
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                                #80

                                I did hear about the remake/remaster. I’ve never actually played it though. Maybe I should find it on an emulator. The remastered music is definitely nostalgic

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                                • S smokedbillionaire@sh.itjust.works

                                  Does the word “paragon” apply in this case? That’s what I think of when I see someone outside of religious context that I would aspire to emulate.

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                                  woodscientist@lemmy.world
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                                  Paragon works, but it’s not really a title. Could we make “Paragon” a title? Instead of “Saint Stephen of San Jose,” we have “Paragon Stephen of San Jose.” Sounds odd, but maybe?

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                                  • lime!L lime!

                                    hell no i wanna live

                                    fruit juice is all mostly apple anyway

                                    bonus fun fact, lime doesn’t help against scurvy. the brits started cultivating limes because it’s easier than lemons, but because the steam ship took over at around the same time, travel times got shorter and nobody noticed that they don’t actually have the same effect. until the 1910 british antarctic expedition when people’s teeth started falling out despite carrying tonnes of limes

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                                    faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
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                                    I need sauce for limes not preventing scurvy. I was under the impression that the Terra Nova expedition failed because they flat ran out of rations and got stuck in a storm so they couldn’t resupply.

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                                    • U ushmel

                                      20 years might be pushing it, but he’d be gone 34ish years by that point. He wasn’t much of a philanthropist. Is there any Steve Jobs Parks? Plazas? His early death didn’t lend him much time to create a legacy. He’ll be known in business and tech scenes, sure, but the pop culture knowledge of him will be negligible. Does the general public know about the CEO of IBM 35+ years ago? The current crop of CEOs are like WWE wrestlers in their persona compared to Jobs. Being present for the smartphone revolution was something, but does anyone remember the CEO of the company that introduced the laptop? Jobs wasn’t a Carnegie or Rockefeller.

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                                      alexanderthedead@lemmy.world
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                                      Idk, Steve Jobs has like at least 2 movies about him. Pretty sure his name will last considerably longer than 20 years on that alone.

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                                      • W woodscientist@lemmy.world

                                        Paragon works, but it’s not really a title. Could we make “Paragon” a title? Instead of “Saint Stephen of San Jose,” we have “Paragon Stephen of San Jose.” Sounds odd, but maybe?

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                                        alexanderthedead@lemmy.world
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                                        #84

                                        There is (video game) precedent

                                        Dragon Age: Origins Dwarves refer to their heroes/saints as paragons.

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                                        • F fauxliving@lemmy.world

                                          This is why all of the megarich are selfish assholes.

                                          The good people give their money away.

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                                          verdantsporeseasoning@lemmy.ca
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                                          Part of what I liked about Rowling was that she was the first billionaire to lose billionaire status due to donating so much to charity. She had been poor & alone and understood how to support that.

                                          Then she decided fucking over transfolk was her favorite nonprofit.

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