Who is your favourite billionaire?

Becoming a billionaire is not really that inspiring to me, and never really interest me of what billionaires do, and how do they become one. Most of them are dirty bastards anyway. They are just another person, nothing special. As in my country, the majority of rich people are corruptors. The recent case in my country, corruption billions of USD causing about USD 18.500.000.000 natural disaster, only get sentence to prison for 6 years, while a poor old lady steal a few woods got sentenced into 1 year prison. Let's not forget to mention the prison for corruptors are VIP with AC, TV, wifi, and probably.other special treatments (pool table and bar maybe?), and perhaps reduce in sentence time in the middle if good behaving. That corruptor btw bought a private jet for his son birthday. Justice is very dead here. Literally the law is pissed by the rich. It always amaze me how dirty the law can be bent to profit the haves.

Anyway, what actually always interest and inspire me is to see great classical pianists such as Yundi Li, Kissin, Seong-Jin Cho, and Dmitry Shishkin (my new favorite pianist: his Chopin etude op.10 no 2 is simply out of this world)

Can't think of any at the moment. Many so called philanthropists just do it as a form of money laundering, tax evasion and PR stunts or even if they have good intents the money is not efficiently used in the most needed places unfortunately.



Abe's net worth was about 10 million dollars. You would have to use a yen value to get billions.

He pressured media into self censorship
https://archive.is/dmrxC
He tried to request a US publisher to rewrite history
https://theconversation.com/shinzo-abe-the-disputed-legacy-of-a-politician-who-dominated-public-life-in-japan-after-wwii-186757

I don't know about Vangaurd but he did do deals with Blackrock
https://www.ft.com/content/8ecfcfc4-3cee-11e5-8613-07d16aad2152
https://www.wsj.com/articles/japan-calls-upon-blackrock-in-bid-to-encourage-corporate-investment-1444867073

He changed his immigration policy later on out of necessity
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/national/social-issues/japan-first-led-protesters-slam-abe-plan-allow-foreign-workers/

Trillion Game is the best anime of Fall 2024 by the way.


I liked so much Batman as a kid that I even had a movie poster of The Dark Knight in my bedroom (Teminator and Underworld were the two other movie posters). But when I grew up, I realised that he should have instead used his wealth to fix social inequality. Sorry to be more left-wing (God forbid) than a Québecois...


I hope that the third is a joke.


I could watch him eating cookies all day.



Is it a good One Piece movie?


I agree with you. What do you think of Maurizio Pollini? He is my favourite pianist for Chopin's Études.


The software that he created is helpful, but the coding language is quite awful and there are better (free) alternatives. His general philosophy is quite despicable to be honest too. And physiognomy should tell you immediately which software is the best.





If my thread gets closed, I will blame you (I did not ruin your distasteful thread on "curiosity killing," so please don't try to ruin mine...). No one should be killed, not even the war veterans or the people who suffer from depression (controversial viewpoint in Babylon-like Canada). You don't fix an unjust system by treating its effects instead of its causes.


You are right, but your googlefu is surely getting tiring.


As much as I dislike him as a person, if he succeeds in the Mars mission, no one will remember about the bad political takes and silly memes. Will you let him have a chip in your brain by the way?


Best reply of the thread so far. We need to start many a Lazarus Project to revive all the great scientists of the past (starting with Archimedes, Euclid, Descartes, and Newton). It is crazy to think that people like @fleurbleue want to reenact this scene with the Illusive Man...



(It was hard to find a version with MaleShep, I guess that most gamers today choose a female character to watch her bottom while they play... But FemShep's VA is quite annoying while MaleShep's VA is amazing.)


I had never heard about him, thanks for mentioning this (obscure) figure, I will look him up in more detail later!

None, billionaires will always be billionaires and care only about their money.

@Cybercat2000
Yes they are. We've been over this a bazillion times. Anime = Japanese animation = Japanese cartoon.

@TheMechaManiac

Cartoon = animation
Not the other way around

@Cybercat2000 Wrong, animation = cartoon. Most people use "cartoon" as an abbreviation of "animated cartoon".

Who cares? It is not like the rich, "elites" will survive Near Term Human Extinction.

@Cybercat2000 According to MAL, anime is just cartoons produced by Japan, South Korea, or China. 动画、アニメ、or dessins animés are all the same thing. It is like saying that Japanese film makers are doing something completely different than movies called 映画... Or people who insists that Chinese and Korean manga are not like manga (those people typically insist to call them manwha/manhua as if it mattered... How snobbish of them). The style may be different, but the underlying principle is the same.

@MissHeed Thanks! I will be sure to watch it.


ChapGPT is not a girl! My intuition did not fool me and this guy supports turning Americans into drug addicts...


I agree, but WolframAlpha is only good to estimate integrals. For serious work, you need write the code yourself.


Charity is a sub-optimal system and socialism is far more efficient.

Thank you. Oh no, it was not about murder but more the implications of the question (that I would not be a good judge of character and that moral perfection incarnate could commit such a despicable act).

You don't need a suicide law when palliative care exist, and terminally ill people should not kill themselves, and if they decide to end their lives, they should not have to ask for the approval of the government (cf. Henry de Montherlant). The West has become the civilisation of death and this is the infaillible harbinger of its imminent demise.

Yes, not everyone is strong enough to keep living, but does it mean that they are justified to ask you to kill them? Rhetorical question.

I do not argue about obvious things any more, and this thread has been sufficiently derailed. You are to morals what Flat Earthers are to astrophysicists, and it is a pity that you cannot comprehend how wrong is it to ask someone else to end your own life (it is also wrong to commit suicide obviously, though it may not seem obvious to you). Doctors work for the government in many countries, so what difference does it make? You still relinquish the power you have on your own life to other people.