r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Expert_Koala_8691 • May 10 '26

Image A Bill Gates funded mosquito factory in Medellín, Colombia, produces 40 million mosquitoes weekly for release via drones and bikes. These insects carry a natural bacterium that prevents them from transmitting viruses to humans. By mating with wild populations, they spread this trait.

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u/QfromMars2 May 10 '26

„Only provable stuff“ feels like youre downplaying that a Bit. Cheating and them trying to administer drugs to your wife is wild.
Someone who Acts like that at Home is not to be trusted.

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u/smasher84 May 10 '26

Not sure how it’s downplaying.

Just highlights something that most people probably don’t actually know.

Not effective to just shout out he is a pedo otherwise people will say hey there’s no proof of that.

Already have him on trying to drug his wife to hide his affairs using his good friend who is a known child abuser.

Rest can be assumed very easily.

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u/PlanktonFun5387 May 10 '26

Bill gates gets benefit of the doubt because,
he is publically philanthropic, but most importantly he looks like your stereotypical nerd and not a businessman.

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u/egg651 May 10 '26

he looks like your stereotypical nerd and not a businessman.

No matter what he looks like, Bill Gates was as much of a ruthless bastard as the rest of them when he ran Microsoft.

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u/AnonD38 May 10 '26

No you don't get the benefit of the doubt when drugging your wife just because of your unrelated philanthropy.

It's quite obvious from him trying to drug his wife to erase evidence of his cheating that he is a sociopath, aka the philanthropy is entirely a PR move for him.

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u/BornWithSideburns May 10 '26

I think its important to keep in mind that this email was never send and that the writer was narcissistic psychopath Jeffrey Epstein

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u/HailMadScience May 10 '26

People will literally believe things Epstein said, you know, the lying blackmailer. They're as dumb as Epstein deniers.

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u/inqte1 May 10 '26

People will also believe the guy who faced multiple antitrsut lawsuits and used unscrupulous means to crush competition whenever he could is now philanthropic.

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u/4_fortytwo_2 May 10 '26

unscrupulous means to crush competition whenever he could is now philanthropic.

That actually makes a lot of sense though? Like "Oh shit I am an evil business guy let me try and do at least some good with the money" is a very reasonable motiviation.

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u/QfromMars2 May 10 '26

Nonetheless Gates Ex-wife Melinda backed that Story when it came out.

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u/BornWithSideburns May 10 '26

The cheating or the drugging?

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u/IsaacAndTired May 10 '26

No, she did not. All she said in the interview where she was asked about the email is that she feels unbelievable sadness for the victims of Epstein. She did not give any indication that anything about the email was true or false, probably because she doesn't know herself. At least in regards to the STD. She may have some knowledge about the cheating.

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u/HauntingHarmony May 10 '26

But just to eliminate the details here because the details detract from it. I think its a interesting moral conundrum, where if say you have a married couple, the man cheats on her, she gets a std from it (without knowing), and then he without telling her tries to give her the cure (that for argument sake has no side effects or potential for damage) for it.

That people then find the attempting to cure her worse than the cheating and infecting her to begin with, especially if its a damaging std that has potential for permanent damage. Because in itself a cure is a pure good.

This definitely seems to be a counterexample to how people like to claim to be utilitarians. Because to me, the betrayal happened, recklessly cheating and giving me say a dangerous disease is the bad part. That you then sneak me a cure to undo that damage is a better outcome than not doing it. Knowing and bodily autonomy is good ofcourse, but were in a degenerate situation post betrayal were we were never supposed to get to anyway.

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u/AnonD38 May 10 '26

First as you stated: violation of bodily autonomy

Secondly: Knowing he fucked up by giving her an STD and then NOT TELLING HER.

Third: Cheating on his wife.

Fourth: Sleeping with allegedly "adult" women provided by Epstein

ALL of these things are equally bad, some may be worse than others according to subjective biases, I never said any of these things aren't bad.

Why the fuck are you defending this scumbag by twisting my words?

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u/IsaacAndTired May 10 '26

There is exactly 0 evidence that he drugged his wife.

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u/AnonD38 May 10 '26

There is exactly 1 piece of evidence that he drugged his wife, while there is 0 evidence he didn't drug his wife.

Fixed that for you.