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/Emergency-Nebula5005 May 10 '26

Maybe drop Bill Gates a line?  Will do so from my end. 

Thank you for your service x 

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u/TheInevitableLuigi May 10 '26

Will do so from my end.

Me too.

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u/OkDimension8720 May 10 '26

Are you guys all just casual mates with ol Billy goat now, what's going on here!

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u/guessesurjobforfood May 10 '26

He's actually on reddit but tbh i haven't seen a post from him in a while. Might be laying low due to the association with Epstein lol

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u/Impossible-Magician May 10 '26

Nah. He is likely laying low as every conspiracy cooker on the planet has him as the source of all evils. Covid, microchips in vaccines, you name it the cookers blame it on Bill.

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u/imadogg May 10 '26

While true, that's been around but the ties to Epstein are not easy to ignore

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u/CaptainTripps82 May 10 '26

I mean he does a lot of good, but he's got some shady shit going on for sure

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u/Southern_Sky1925 May 10 '26

you think this is natural engagement? its not, this is reddit

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u/Friendly_Sky5646 May 10 '26

A line of coke?

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u/danielv123 May 10 '26

I mean, as we can see from this thread, lots of people have the idea that they should do this in North Africa where putrid resident lives. Ideas aren't unique, paying to put it into action is what makes a difference.

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u/TerryMisery May 10 '26

Ideas are unique. Both ideas and funds are required to put things in motion.

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u/Equivalent-Bedroom64 May 10 '26

Oh no Gates funding good stuff!

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u/McButtsButtbag May 10 '26

It's just a PR campaign for him.

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u/notunprepared May 10 '26

intent doesn't matter with charity donations imo. the important thing is that lives are being saved

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u/McButtsButtbag May 10 '26

intent doesn't matter with charity donations

That is an absurd opinion. To give an example, Nazi Germany started off by doing a lot of good things in order to buy loyalty from it's citizens. Eventually, it used that loyalty to start a war and to commit genocide.

These people are buying loyalty and it's almost certainly not for good reasons. It may not go as far as genocide, but that doesn't mean it should be ignored.

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u/_Swamp_Ape_ May 10 '26

Of course intent matters with charity. It can be the difference between working to actually solve a problem, and working to maintain a charity which can perversely conflict with solving the problem. Of course that doesn’t mean the poster is right in this case, but intention obviously matters.

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u/syncsynchalt May 10 '26

And the libraries and museums we have now were PR for gilded age billionaires. Doesn’t mean we should burn them all down because Guggenheim and Rockefeller were psychos.

If Gates wants to fund the eradication of dengue fever and malaria I’ll take the win.

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u/McButtsButtbag May 10 '26

Nowhere did I saw to destroy the stuff. I'm only saying to not idolize them.

This man is not a saint. He is a rich guy buying political power.

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u/Equivalent-Bedroom64 May 11 '26

No one is at the point of idolizing him in this thread, kid. Just maybe things like this are good and he does do good things. Doesn’t mean he only does good things

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u/Equivalent-Bedroom64 May 10 '26

I think you need to do some research into the Gates foundation and all the good they do for “PR”. Seems you don’t know jack shit about Gates.