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The Palantirs in Tolkien's world twisted and corrupted those who used them into evil, paranoid creatures (like Saruman).
This seems like life imitating art.
It wasn't the palantirs themselves, it was the fact that Sauron had one and used to to twist others to his will.
So Peter Thiel is Sauron.
I think you can still draw the parallel. As in, palantir the company is a mechanism for villains to corrupt the society around them. Or something like that
If this person were to drown in a shallow puddle humanity would be unquestionably better off
That sounds pretty good for business too they should write an article about your idea
Shallow puddle, deep puddle, car accident...
Sociopath. I hope a roach crawls up his urethra.
Poor roach. Might as well let it be a candiru, which may actually enjoy the opportunity and experience.
Wiping Palantir off the face of the earth would contribute substantially to the upward march of humanity.
Rolling back anti-slavery laws would also be good for business.
In fact some new laws making anyone whose net worth isn't at least 50 million USD, a property of a randomly assigned mega-corporation, would be amazingly good for business!
Nah you gotta feed and house the slaves. With workers you just pay enough they don’t die and many will even live in cars and eat trash.
I would say 'don't give them any more ideas' but we both know they already have that idea AND are working to make it so.
Someone's gotta pick the berries now. Good thing food assistance has a work requirement of at least 20hrs per week!
Why you speak as if this frogboil hasn't already happened?
I hope he becomes a victim of a hate crime.
Why would it be a hate crime?
He is gay.
So? Doesn't mean any crime against him is because of that? What if it turned out Brian Thompson was a closeted homosexual. It doesnt make his killing a hate crime.
I mean that as in I hope is republican friends plug his nazi ass.
CEO's only say this shit when they've already broken the law. I have no doubt in my mind this dude has committed war crimes.
Meaning they should just be arrested and charged already, and not by some special agent, but by a rookie cop just barely out of high school and policy academy and it should be their first felony arrest. Make it as humiliating as possible for them.
I was going to make a joke about being harsh for humiliating the cop... But no. Fuck 'em.
Yes, I meant humiliating for the CEO, not the cop. For him it should be a casual Wednesday.
Eh, not to be 'that girl' but the context of this article doesn't seem to match the title. What he's saying is that if the government WANTS to keep it's activities constitutional, meaning they will succeed in any later litigation, they need detailed information before each and every strike so they can make wise decisions.
His argument is that only HIS company can provide that detailed information...so the government needs to keep paying them.
Ragebait?
“Part of the reason why I like this questioning is the more constitutional you want to make it, the more precise you want to make it, the more you’re going to need my product,” Karp said. His reasoning is that if it’s constitutional, you would have to make 100% sure of the exact conditions it’s happening in, and in order to do that, the military would have to use Palantir’s technology, for which it pays roughly $10 billion under its current contract.
Thanks for the additional context, but that's a dumb argument. There is no constitutional ground for these strikes, with or without his bullshit product, because there is no war. They're committing straight up murder which is (still) illegal.
Someone’s been taking the wrong message from Megadeth
Didn't Dave Mustaine eventually become an outspoken conservative? Like, how the fuck does that ever happen.
*hears metal guitar *
“This must be about hate and anger!”
Well, yes, but not like that…
Alex Karp bad
That's not what he is saying. This Gizmodo article is trash but at least it gives you the actual quote so you can find out what he really said.
And next they request slave labour to become legal again, right? Because that’s good for business as well.
it goes both ways, you cant complain if your enemies target civilians or use biological or chemical weapons
They believe they are a cut above the rest. Basically is they expect the enemy to act with extreme restraint while they exercise none whatsoever.
It is hard to argue he isn't correct.
However.... Wow. It's so shocking to see how happy people are these days to flaunt how evil they are. It's not like evil people didn't exist before, but it's almost like they are celebrated these days.