@Ricotta @xianc78 @djsumdog
Nah, its probably some half-assed attempt at killing off the wrongthinkers. I don't know why they would throw away their pawns when they can still be used.

@CommonSay @djsumdog @xianc78 The wrongthinkers are the only ones refusing to take it. Given that we know that it's deadly and can cause sterility in survivors, the only population that will be affected are the NPCs.

@CommonSay @Ricotta @xianc78 or just getting rid of old people. Maybe China just wanted to purge the people they didn’t want to take care of any more and though this would just look like a bad flu season, before things go out of control.

@djsumdog @CommonSay @Ricotta Well, according to the TED Talk Bill Gates did back in 2010, he implied that he wanted to lower the population by 10-15% by 2050.

@Ricotta @xianc78 Just remember, the original name for Bill’s origination was The Bill and Melinda Institute for Population Management

@djsumdog @Ricotta And yet my mom still idolizes Bill Gates for "helping the sick and the poor". As a kid, she would always paint Bill Gates as a role model for me. I'm glad I never idolized him myself.

@xianc78 @djsumdog Oh no she's an NPC.

Could be that Bill is running a long con and is actually /our guy/ and intends to use his foundation to exterminate the poor minorities and easily influenced.

@Ricotta @xianc78 That’d be awful! Without them, who would do all the terrible and difficult jobs educated people feel too good and entitled for?

@djsumdog @xianc78 Racist robots.

@Ricotta @xianc78 Is that a euphemism for Mexicans?

@djsumdog @xianc78 No.

@xianc78 @djsumdog @Ricotta sick and poor = infinity niggers

@xianc78 @Ricotta I grew up with this Bill Gates. He was an evil, ruthless yet cringe, nerdy asshat of a business man that crushed everyone he could, with few morals or ethics.

I don’t understand why the entire tech community and general population are jizzing over this guy like he’s some kind of St. Teresa, when he’s really a mascot for a multi-billion dollar health and pharma industry.

@djsumdog @Ricotta I'm no expert on the history of Microsoft, but from what I've heard Paul Allen was probably more involved than Bill Gates and Bill just took all the credit. It's just another Steve Jobs/Steve Wozniak situation.

I wasn't even born yet at the time but I was told that had Commodore adopted the same business model as IBM/Microsoft (license their Amiga OS and architecture to other computer manufacturers), Microsoft would probably have never become a monopoly.

@xianc78 @Ricotta The PC was the first big open architecture product from IBM. They sourced parts rather than build everything in house in order to compete with Apple for workstations (even though Apple products themselves were fairly closed architecturally).

@xianc78 @Ricotta The open ended license for DOS allowed Microsoft to make a lot more money once Compaq and others started making compatibles (the only part the really had to write from scratch was IBM’s BIOS).