If you're doing consideration of past people, give consideration to baby Thomas Midgely Jr.
He's the dude that effectively invented leaded gasoline AND chlorofluorocarbons. It can be argued that no other single human in history did more widespread damage to the environment than he did.
Bro contracted lead poisoning, was informed of TEL's toxicity in 1922, and was still stupid enough to deliberately give himself lead poisoning again in 1924 to trick people into thinking it was safe.
Not only irreparable and frankly incomprehensible levels of environmental damage, but his products are cumulatively estimated to have stolen at least 824 million IQ points from people born during their use.
Making the argument that you should kill scientists for their inventions is short sighted, dumb and morally dubious
Its Science, if Thomas didn't invent leaded gasoline someone else would have figured it out, an interesting parallel is Fritz Haber, discoverer of the habers process(iykyk).
Even if he invented it, it was the corpos who heavily pushed and kept it in circulation for their own benefit.
Attacking Science in any way compromises human progress, CFC's were the stepping stone to less harmful refrigerants.
It really is astonishing to see a guy thoroughly fun to watch on NewsRadio, across most of his standup routines, and even early-on in his podcasts go from left-leaning, sympathetic, and genuinely curious person about all kinds of things, all the way to a naked sellout, whose usual defense of being a right-wing asshat is to proclaim "I'm just asking questions!"
On a parallel note, I understand that Kentucky's Mitch M. went from left-wing politico earlier in his career to essentially Darth Vader in the last few decades. Which is why I'd think it would be both fascinating, horrifying and hugely revealing to learn just how that happened, in as much detail as possible...
Nah, he's a long-time MMA commenter, not a participant. In fact, her ladyship Ronda Rousey called him out on that just recently. OTOH he actually does hold two legit Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belts, so the man is no fraud in terms of martial arts.
Like his master Dana White though, it seems he's heavily in to nootropics and performance-enhancing shizzle. Along those lines, it seemed to me that both of them were fairly handsome men only a few years ago, and these days they just look... weird... Like, sort of greasy-faced, with enlarged heads, and sunken facial features.
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erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 218d
No CEOs or politicians makes it hard. Can we do people from the past? If so I choose baby Donald Trump, baby Elon Musk and baby Peter Theil.
morgan_423@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 218d
If you're doing consideration of past people, give consideration to baby Thomas Midgely Jr.
He's the dude that effectively invented leaded gasoline AND chlorofluorocarbons. It can be argued that no other single human in history did more widespread damage to the environment than he did.
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 218d
Bro contracted lead poisoning, was informed of TEL's toxicity in 1922, and was still stupid enough to deliberately give himself lead poisoning again in 1924 to trick people into thinking it was safe.
Not only irreparable and frankly incomprehensible levels of environmental damage, but his products are cumulatively estimated to have stolen at least 824 million IQ points from people born during their use.
Zoot@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 218d
Dude reminds me of Wildman Whitehouse holy shit
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 217d
Just now posted about him, what a car crash of a guy.
Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 218d
Making the argument that you should kill scientists for their inventions is short sighted, dumb and morally dubious
Its Science, if Thomas didn't invent leaded gasoline someone else would have figured it out, an interesting parallel is Fritz Haber, discoverer of the habers process(iykyk).
Even if he invented it, it was the corpos who heavily pushed and kept it in circulation for their own benefit.
Attacking Science in any way compromises human progress, CFC's were the stepping stone to less harmful refrigerants.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 218d
“No CEOs or politicians”
Ridiculous. Anyone worth killing will either be a CEO or described as a politician in some capacity.
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 218d
Remove OP first, then two CEOs.
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 217d
Ouch. I only said no politicians or ceos because everyone would more or less say the same thing
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 217d
Well actually this is a very good point. You should have stated this in the post body.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 30 pts · 218d
no ceos or politicians??? then whats the point!?
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 218d
There are billionaires that aren't either
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 218d
yeah and raisons are also a nice treat just like chocolate.
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 218d
It's too easy to come up with a list of 20+
UncleArthur@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 218d
Stephen Miller isn't an elected politician. I'd also like to nominate Rupert Murdoch and Andrew Tate.
EDIT: In my cups, I'd probably nominate my son-in-law and daughter-in-law as numbers 2 and 3 instead.
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 218d
Andrew Tate's a good one
normonator@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 218d
The fathers of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos.
Erasing the existence of anyone would have to be done in the past so that shouldnt be an issue.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 14 pts · 218d
Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam. Can't think of a third.
Does it have to be someone alive? Uh. The guy who built my bathroom for fucking it up so badly.
eightpix@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 218d
Alex Jones
Steve Bannon
Stephen Miller
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 218d
Peter Thiel isn't a CEO, so he's #1
Leonard Leo, Trump / Project 2025 dark money donor
Joe Rogan
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 5 pts · 218d
It really is astonishing to see a guy thoroughly fun to watch on NewsRadio, across most of his standup routines, and even early-on in his podcasts go from left-leaning, sympathetic, and genuinely curious person about all kinds of things, all the way to a naked sellout, whose usual defense of being a right-wing asshat is to proclaim "I'm just asking questions!"
On a parallel note, I understand that Kentucky's Mitch M. went from left-wing politico earlier in his career to essentially Darth Vader in the last few decades. Which is why I'd think it would be both fascinating, horrifying and hugely revealing to learn just how that happened, in as much detail as possible...
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 218d
Maybe too many blows to the head after getting into MMA?
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 3 pts · 218d
Nah, he's a long-time MMA commenter, not a participant. In fact, her ladyship Ronda Rousey called him out on that just recently. OTOH he actually does hold two legit Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belts, so the man is no fraud in terms of martial arts.
Like his master Dana White though, it seems he's heavily in to nootropics and performance-enhancing shizzle. Along those lines, it seemed to me that both of them were fairly handsome men only a few years ago, and these days they just look... weird... Like, sort of greasy-faced, with enlarged heads, and sunken facial features.
pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org · 7 pts · 218d
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 218d
Myself ×3
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 218d
Adam, Cain, and Abel
random_character_a@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 218d
Lucy, if early hominids count.
davepleasebehave@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 218d
Mitochondrial eve?
random_character_a@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 218d
Yes
j4k3@piefed.world · 3 pts · 218d
capuccino@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 218d
Jake Paul and Logan Paul do count as CEOs?
jdr@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 218d
Thomas Midgely Jr., Richard Nixon, me
WondahBread@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 218d
Emperor Constantine I
Then save the other two to see how that played out.
venusaur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 218d
Barbie, G.I. Joe and Jesus Christ
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 218d
John J. Schlummeister, Jan Mooi and Sue Tirami.
technopagan@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 217d
Myself, St.Paul, Henry Ford.
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 217d
This fellow for starters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 217d
Trumps parents. No parents no trump. Elon's aswell as Hitler's etc. you get the idea.
toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 1 pts · 218d
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org · 1 pts · 218d
Philip II of Makedon, Qin Shi Huangdi, and the person who invented salted caramel.
Vanth@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 217d
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 215d
John Alfred Hammersmith
Steve J. North
Marcelo Henrique de Oliveira Lima
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 218d
Assuming currently living people
I would start with whoever made that Transformer research paper in 2017 which paved the way to this LLM craze