During the nineties and early 00s he was a pretty maligned figure (exhibit 1) in most tech circles so, beyond his nerd-looking cutthroat COE figure he wasn’t known at all.

Then he went into a huge massive PR campaign that turned his image into this billionaire messiah bound to fix the world with his impossibly smart brain and his bottomless wallet.

And suddenly, everyone considered him an ubergenius that “invented” MSDOS, and Excel, and Powerpoint and now he’s using that force for Good™.

Meanwhile the old greybeards of yore remember how hated he was, how all these products were merely bought or acquired, and how terrible has been his true son (MS Word) all along. Because even though he had a 1590 SAT score and the fastest pancake sorting algorithm his accomplishments amount to being a shitty CEO.

But we can always thank him for Copilot™ (yep, he pushed hard for it).

Also as a way to understand what kind of bastard he is:

“In the early 1980s, while business partner Paul Allen was undergoing treatments for cancer, Gates—according to Allen—conspired to reduce Allen’s share in Microsoft by issuing himself stock options.”

Oh… I thought it was iced copper… That makes more sense.

Walk the plank lad.

That’s a lie and you should feel bad about it as everyone knows the truth: it was John Williams, as a revenge after he stole his song where Short Round marries an Ewok.

And to think he’s the reason we were deprived from this magnum opus from George Lucas!

What I’ve experienced is that sometimes I get misunderstood by either the limitations of communicating by text, misunderstandings or because I do a hot take and someone’s very opinionated on that topic. Or a healthy dose of autism.

I eventually realized that explaining myself, apologizing when needed and finally not engaging in pointless discussions where probably nothing is gained gave me a mental health boost.

This isn’t even my final form-kind of vibes.

That’s quite hilarious and I hope, if Hollywood driven by their desperation decices to make a Maximum Ride movie, then in it now and then Max switches hair color with no apparent reason and without anyone addressing it.

That’s probably because I’m using mbin and both work for me.

::: spoiler
I love these color names, specially cinnabar amd vermilion, sadly not much use in a conversation. :::

Yeah that got me good too, I was missing a word from that category but it took me a while to guess that was it.

But I felt them narrower, not sure if it’s the case but shoes here are usually wider.

Most conservative talking heads are well aware of what filth they are pushing, they’re just grifters.

It’s excel.

If you are using a generator that combines everything (both bad and good) on the net, you will end right on the middle. If everyone that’s lazy uses the same method, your work becomes the definition of mediocre.

Nothing wrong with mediocre, I mean the corporate world is full of mediocrity and that’s what is expected in assignments.

I love the comment, I hope it is satire.

He has a very successful series of YA called Maximum Ride and he has done a ton of thrillers.

It seems, that in your anger, you killed her.

Police is the best example of Maslow’s hammer: “it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”

Crikey? I guess Nessie took a trip down south.

Why does he look like he’s on his way to take on Dr. Evil?