Since the revelations have come out, I've been baffled and bewildered that Bill Gates, a guy with more connections and money than pretty much anyone who has ever existed and surely, surely must know what opposition research is....spent years hanging out with Epstein after his first conviction for treating high-schoolers as prostitutes.<p>I don't get it. Gates has never come across as completely depraved (greedy, maybe) so I don't think he was using Epstein's services, but I can tell you in working class US, if you find out that anyone did what Epstein did, you never talk to them again because they are a predator, much less befriend them.<p>What was Gates doing and why is there a collective sigh about it? Tech does not care. Microsoft does not care.<p><a href="https://www.thecut.com/2021/05/what-we-know-about-bill-gates-and-jeffrey-epstein.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.thecut.com/2021/05/what-we-know-about-bill-gates...</a><p>Gates is either careless, foolish, a creep, or all three. But this kind of bullshit is the stuff that made him the absolute worst person to head up things like virus response and we need to get these predators out of industries.