Why in God's name does the CIA have a VC fund?
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CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
American public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_in_Pakistan#Repe... I do not want that shit going on in any country, but I especially don't want it going on in my country. Fuck that, fuck them, fuck everybody involved in these retarded ideas.
So not only were at least 70 health workers murdered, but hundreds of children were paralyzed or died from polio so we could execute Bin Laden. Fuck that. Just fuck it.
You'd think the CIA would understand unintended consequences by now.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
So not only were at least 70 health workers murdered, but hundreds of children were paralyzed or died from polio so we could execute Bin Laden. Fuck that. Just fuck it.
You'd think the CIA would understand unintended consequences by now.
They understand them, just don't give a fxxk. They get what they want the rest is not their problem.
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Barring disruption of the government, the future will be fairer and more just than today, just as today is fairer and more just yesterday.
Can you provide any examples of things that are less fair and less just now than they have been any time in the past 100 years?
Exactly, I just finished listening to an NPR interview on a book about the underground railway and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
Out of your 100 year window range, but a nice example of just how malleable the institutions of government are to the forces of oppression.
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#55Why in God's name does the CIA have a VC fund?
If you step back from the conspiracy theory stuff, why shouldn't the CIA have a VC fund? They have a vested interested in fostering technology that could serve their purposes, so why not ensure that technology finds the funding it needs to mature?
Consider also that research grants from the Department of Defence are effectively the same thing, the government sponsoring technology that it might find a military application for, and those grants brought us the internet so it's not all bad.
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Eh, not necessarily. This could be the last period when things were still really really good.
Barring disruption of the government, the future will be fairer and more just than today, just as today is fairer and more just yesterday.
This assumes today actually is fairer and more just. It isn't necessarily so in all ways, and change is not necessarily permanent, as history will show you.
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#57Its not clear to me how this would be useful for nefarious purposes. Surely, to apply this detergent and collect the resulting biomarkers in a controlled fashion, they would require fairly complete access to the target individual? As in, the target would have to be sitting there letting an agent rub their arm with some swabs. And there have to be easier ways to do the same thing- file a sharp edge into the back of a…
Nope, article is garbage
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#58I thought one of the reasons why everything had to be done by the free market was that government is bad at picking winners. But what do you know?
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The problem is, the next time we have a genuinely bad government, that government will own us all. Can you imagine a Stasi or a KGB with the power the FBI is demanding, or the power combined with the legal carte blanche that the NSA already has?
That's really not as far away as you seem to imply. Just look at the difference between current politics and forty years ago. If politics changes as much to the extremes in the next 40 years, you get your genuinely bad government in far less than 40 years. Add in the known tendency of humans globally to take refuge in extremism and racism in a recession, well, one more deep recession could do it.
The US 40 years ago was a relatively backward, sexist, racist, and homophobic. Politics has gotten an order of magnitude better since then, and the people are greatly more virtuous. If we get a similar change in the next 40 years we'll be living in an amazing society.
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Because the time to stop it was 30+ years ago. It's their country now, not ours.
And by giving up you are furthering their power without accountability or oversight.
No, I'm not achieving any more by "giving up" than I am by not "giving up". I'm not in a position to change the nature of US policy, and as long as American voters use their power to vote in venal assholes, that won't change.