Perspective, you are being very reductionist. Not that i disagree necessarily. Creating a country rarely came from lets all get together and sing happy songs, but there are vast differences among formation of countries, colonialism, and genocide.

See also, humanized mice, KO mice with particular genes knocked out to see if gene therapy works, and a host of other intentionally bred or adapted strains.

Counts! I’ve paid some tabs, and sometimes rent playing guitar, but had to go back to science to make it work long term.

I had to make a decision. Everything is a sliding scale/gradient. Money aside even, it’s a lot easier to do great stuff as a musician outside of a science career than it is to to great stuff as a scientist outside of a music career.

One avenue pays bills at all levels, one you have to be truly good at to make anything. Reason I went back into science instead of music.

I get that Gates is a bit of a Carnegie, but putting up 30 billion ($30,000,000,000.00) that is intended to be spent by the last current trustees death (Melinda is the youngest) is more than any other billionaire would ever do. I’m not a shill. BMGF has done a whole lot of good in the world.

Well, they only lost 1/10th of the team.

Until the Gulf Stream Current collapses. Then it will be nice and cold.