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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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Post by inigyou »

loeber wrote: post #73
holoduke wrote: post #53

I find it unbelievable that the current chief of Nato (Rutte) is basically an extension of Palantir. He is making sure countries are signing contracts with this extreme company that on pair with the Nazi ideology. They would support mass extermination camps. You probably think this is over exaggerated. But no its not. This company is evil.

You're out of your mind -- and politically radicalized -- if you think that Palantir is on part with the Nazis. And this kind of facile comparison is offensively trivializing those who died in the holocaust.

One of the things we need to learn from the Nazis is the banality of evil. They were not some unique video game bad guys. They were ordinary people doing mostly ordinary things that added up to an atrocity. Mostly they just had some bad opinions. The individual concentration camp guard had a vague bad feeling about the project but apart from that they felt the same as a security guard at a prison feels today.

And the Nazis were already around for 10 years before the holocaust began. And for all that time they were still the Nazis, but nobody considered them that badly, because they just seemed like a political party with some bad opinions. And we should think about that. Was it possible to stop them in the first 10 years of existence, before they did the holocaust, thereby preventing the holocaust?

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Post by inigyou »

sillyfluke wrote: post #319
tngranados wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The no AC in Europe thingy is mostly central and north Europe, where, in fairness, it didn't use to get very hot but now have heat waves fairly often. Spain, Portugal, Italy and other southern European countries have very wide spread AC usage.

>southern European countries They also have colder beers than Germany probably for the same reason. Nothing beats the culture acclimation of wincing while sipping lukewarm beer under the July sun in 100+ degrees Berlin.

At 100+ European degrees, your beer would be boiling and you'd be cooked alive.

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Post by wolvoleo »

pvaldes wrote: post #308
wolvoleo wrote: post #229

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There's very little decent work though. If you live there you're either fully remote which is rare these days, or you work in the tourist industry.

> If you live there you're either fully remote, or you work in the tourist industry. Or you are a doctor, a teacher, an architect or a bananas farmer. Some of the richest families in the islands just export/import commodities since three generations.

Oh yeah I was thinking tech sector when I wrote that. Because of the community here.

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

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Post by sillyfluke »

inigyou wrote: post #343
sillyfluke wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>southern European countries They also have colder beers than Germany probably for the same reason. Nothing beats the culture acclimation of wincing while sipping lukewarm beer under the July sun in 100+ degrees Berlin.

At 100+ European degrees, your beer would be boiling and you'd be cooked alive.

that was F degrees obviously, so 38 in "euro".

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Post by Cytobit »

johneth wrote: post #290
toofy wrote: post #174

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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.

> 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 It's called being out-of-touch obscenely wealthy coupled with a massive ego.

With some experimental peptides sprinkled in.

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Post by delfinom »

GuestFAUniverse wrote: post #276
ifwinterco wrote: post #267

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It’s not spite it’s just logical - US/Israel are a known bad actor. China is also probably bad, but currently there’s no evidence they’re as bad as US/Israel

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.

China is allowing their companies to trade with Russia. That's all. China has not blocked trade with Ukraine either.

China also stands to benefit long term with a Russia that continues fighting and weakening itself.

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Post by gazebo2 »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #287
gazebo2 wrote: post #118

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I think in general people are a bit distrusting of a tech firm headed by billionaires with deep political ties that sells AI driven surveillance state technology to governments

Whom should we buy surveillance software from then? Vegan art society? It's like saying we shouldn't buy guns from gun makers and tickle our enemies with rose petals instead. Feels like Kremlin bots are having a field day here.

You caught me, I was too on the nose using the classic Russian disinformation tactic of saying mass surveillance is bad
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