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Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.
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When I watched the first Terminator movie in the 80s, it shook me to the core.
But as I grew up, I felt grateful they would make such a movie, to show humanity why we should never build robot overlords.
At the time, I thought the movie would save us from ourselves. But 42 years later, this is the Beijing half marathon:
@angusm You are right. But I suspect the subject of this conversation is exactly why they chose to name the company like this. As a distraction.
Palantir, and Thiel, are a menace to free societies and humanity because they advocate for the end of democracies and the end to privacy. And they put effort and money into those goals. They are a serious menace because of what they do, today, in practice. Not because of some fiction title.
With Peter Thiel's company Palantir increasingly in the news, a lot of people are still uncertain what the company stands for and what its core values are. Basically, what you need to know is that in "The Lord of the Rings” only three people owned palantíri:
- the Dark Lord Sauron, the epitome of everything evil,
- his almost equally evil lackey Saruman, and
- Denethor, a depressive autocrat who finally ended himself in a failed murder-suicide.
That pretty much tells you what to expect.
Earthquake near Japan! More to come maybe.
“Penn was quick to tell me he does not know much about many things. But he is an expert in misleading people.
‘I am bringing this to you w the utmost humility. I am carny trash. I am uneducated. [My] position of expertise is that I have lied to ppl onstage & gotten them to believe it. I think I could do what that police officer did.’”
The Onion have finally completed their takeover of InfoWars, and it's everything I wanted and more.
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