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Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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Why don't you stop using American sites and services now then? I see comments like this a lot but no one wants to be personally inconvenienced to stop using hn/youtube/reddit/whatever.

>Why don't you stop using American sites and services now then? So it is what you want.

I honestly don't care. I just push back on some of this rhetoric by challenging those who say this to actually practice what they preach.

Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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post #249

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> Anybody here think that Palantir is not a security risk for Spain? why is THAT your take and not "WTF WHY ARE THOSE CAMERAS LEGAL IN GENERAL?"

they could be attached to non-US-owned-tiktok which is clearly the biggest security threat to have ever existed

jesus fuck, biggest security threat is that IT SPIES ON ALL CITIZENS

it doesn't matter where the data go - THE VERY COLLECTION OF IT IS BAD

Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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China is supplying Russia, which is attacking an European country. Thus, from my POV that sentiment is BS. China is an adversary in a panda costume.

And Israel is attacking various countries - okay not in quite in Europe, but pretty close to the southeastern EU member states. So you have one country which is in a very loose alliance with a country that's attacking a country around the periphery of the EU, and another country that's joined at the hip with a country that's attacking another country around the periphery of the EU, just slightly further away. It's no…

Don't be fooled. Israel is also attacking countries in Europe

They did when being caught messing with elections in Scotland, Europe, for example. Whom Europeans vote are none of the Israel business. And there is a reasonable suspicion that they were sending sex traps for decades to blackmail European elites, left and right. This is not how a real friend behave.

Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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> In political science, the term banana republic describes a politically and economically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the export of natural resources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic What natural resource export is Spain’s economy dependent upon?

It appears it’s pork, which lands in China. Current corrupt government is fighting tooth and nail in order to not start a trade fight with China at EU level.

You do realize that when a term was coined many years ago its definition might be broadened?

Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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They’ve been paving the path to the main US industry -> weapons. You gotta do what you gotta do to turn the profit. But you guys have also sacrificed a lot of human life.

So your answer is yes? The companies like GM, Cadillac, etc. they were buildings tanks to defeat the Nazis were themselves fascists, because producing armarments is an inherently fascist endeavor? Even if the military they're equipping is actively fighting against real fascists?

I don’t think we can say that clearly looking almost ninety years back, but those 90 years lead to where we are today.

Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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They seem to have been granting contracts to manage all kinds of critical data to Huawei's Palantir equivalent lately, so it's probably less about security risks and more about the current source of the bribe money. If they cared about security they would not outsource this kind of stuff to foreign companies. Spain is not Somalia, why not let Indra do it?

The contract with Huawei was about buying storage servers [1], which would then be managed by the Interior Ministry. They were not outsourcing anything.

[1] Concretely these: https://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/flash-storage/ocean...

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Much of Spain is indeed getting very unpleasant in the summer with climate change, but in the north there are still regions that are quite fine at the moment. Where I am, we recently beat the all time temperature record with 35 degrees, but that was a single day. Most days these weeks it isn't going over 25, and I don't think we hit 30 in June except for that single day and maybe one other day. The problem is that th…

I still think it will be a coalition and not a full right government. How is the AC situation now is Spain? Has the country mass adopted AC in homes and offices?

Most homes and public spaces have AC installed, but it doesn't help as soon as you set your foot on the street.

Re: Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

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I mean.. just take a minute and listen to the CEO. The guy is having a hard time time. Clearly out of touch imo. https://youtu.be/0A3sGymV6kY

yeah, he seems to have the same issue a lot of these guys have. i’m convinced we’re going to find out at some point they’re all on some kind of modern meth type drug that entirely breaks their reality. the similarities between so many of their shifts are too striking.

You are probably thinking about ketamine.
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