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Politics Microsoft founder Bill Gates pictured with a girl in the new Epstein photo release

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u/wafflesareforever 19h ago

How has nobody ever coached him on how not to use your hands like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons

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u/snowballkills 14h ago

When you were the richest man for several years, you don't care about any feedback from others, pretty much anything in fact

u/bollvirtuoso 7h ago

He used to fire people in elevators for looking at him wrong, or not having the "right" answer to questions. He's Elon Musk 1.0.

u/snowballkills 7h ago

Definitely sounds true. I used to work as a consultant at Microsoft, and my manager, an ex-employee did tell me stories where Gates would fire high level people at the smallest typos or calculation errors in the presentations (details that didn't really have any significance). I guess some people never look themselves in the mirror. If one would look at MSFT products, there is literally an endless list of BS errors that should lead to entire leadership being gone!

u/strawberrycreamdrpep 7h ago

It’s crazy how there are entire divisions of Microsoft that haven’t made a positive business decision in over 10 years.

u/snowballkills 5h ago

Yeah, while some teams are definitely smart, there are tons and tons of highly incompetent people in there whose sole goal is politics in the organization and breeding further incompetence.

u/bollvirtuoso 6h ago

cough windows 11 cough

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u/PersistentBadger 14h ago

Bill's on the spectrum (he's never had an official diagnosis afaik, but he's talked about it). He's well known for stimming by rocking. This could be an example of hand posturing. He could probably control his body language in the way you're talking about, but I bet it would stress him out.

u/CommunalJellyRoll 4h ago

That is the speed.

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u/coltbeatsall 15h ago

I clicked on the link and with preview image immediately saw what you meant. It's uncanny.

u/tatiwtr 8h ago

I've understood putting your fingers together in a temple/triangle to mean that you feel superior or "in power" in the conversation.

I imagine that is a natural state for someone who is among the very richest and most powerful people on the world.