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I don’t think you understand the depth and breadth of what Palantir does, and who uses them.

Pretty sure they don’t bother with just photos, I’m sure there’s some guy that’s replaced the one that died was murdered in prison.

FTFY

Except that was a peaceful process, not an invasion/annexation. Because part of Taiwan’s strategic defense policy is “we will melt our chip fabs to slag if the PRC invades”. Thus, they hold a gun to the head of pretty much all of the most advanced chip fabrication in the world, which most of the rest of the world has a vested interest in keeping working.

So long as it’s being used in a responsible fashion and not being given to minors: why do you give even a single fuck?

Once again, I’d like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs.

Well, one of the things that is happening in the background is brain drain - both at a broader national scale, as well as just within the government. Turns out that breaking bad and going fascist doesn’t sit well with most skilled and intelligent people, so they’re at best phoning it in and maliciously complying, and at worst just leaving their jobs so someone less competent steps in.

They just backdoored or snagged a DB dump on every possible database they could get their hands on and gave it to Palantir (and who knows who else, but probably also the FSB, Mossad, and possibly MSS). That was the mission. That was what they did. They fully got away with it.

You’re looking at the wrong axis.

American liberals mostly - though not exclusively - tend to be capitalistic. American conservatives are definitely capitalistic. Their disagreement largely centers around “should we or should we not make any attempt whatsoever to be egalitarian”

American here. Brits: don’t do it.

lol.

Lmao, even.

It would be pretty wild if the Korean reunification was accomplished due to the complete demographic collapse of South Korea.

Though, NK isn’t doing that much better, coming in with a fertility rate somewhere between 1.3 and 1.4, which is somewhat unusual when compared to other countries with extreme poverty.

Oooh wow sure would be a shame if someone replaced all those proprietary screws with torx or something 😏

Frankly, security assurances from the current US regime to Ukraine are very probably worth less than the paper they’re written on.

It is also really dumb to do kidnapping

I’m so fucking stoked for this bubble to burst. It’s gonna be wild.

When did we stop considering things failures that create more problems than they solve?

When people with a whole fucking lot of money decided they wanted to make a whole fucking lot more money by selling this snake oil to the uncritical, uninformed masses.

Genuinely, I have a LOT of respect for Zelenskyy that he’s got the ability to socially engineer Trump when he’s saying deeply offensive shit like that to his face in press conferences, and doubtlessly even more idiocy in private.

RTFA - dude specifically says Jewish people; one of the interviewers goes “wait; direct question to you: you believe all Jewish people are “a force of evil”? And the dude goes “Yes sir, that’s what I said”.

I’d love for him to have to suffer through… everything, really, if I’m being honest, given what he’s helping to do to humanity.