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Ah yes, the universally moral acceptance of Barack Obama, the man who made signature strikes a lasting legacy of his presidency.

Bill Gates, the man who totally didn't use shady business practices and false announcements to destroy legit products to the point that people wrote micro$oft for a generation.

And don't even get me started on the new seasons of Picard.




The lack of a perfect human is a good reason not to produce ultra-humans who have 1000x higher IQ, are networked to every system on the planet, have access to all of humankind's knowledge, and don't need to eat, sleep, or die.


100% cannot agree more with this, absolutely not the best of ideas.


I wouldn't argue against your points. Yet, we need to have a discussion about character and role models. As I believe we should strive for the better not pointing out the flaws of others. Destruction is easy.


I noticed that you didn't have anything to say about da Vinci.


Harder to pin down, many apocryphal stories so I left him out.


> signature strikes a lasting legacy of his presidency

drone strikes?


there's a reason why in many places you can't name a street after a living person




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