I’m repurposing a comment I left on a post about Palantir’s involvement in the pager attacks (posted to c chapotraphouse).

Palantir CEO Alex Karp appeared as the main interview on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday. He is an enthusiastic believer in the moral authority and superiority of the US.

He says the future of modern warfare will be peer to peer and drone to drone. “You’re going to be using software to control small instruments and there’s going to be hundreds of thousands of them.” He mentions fighting China and Russia specifically.

I don’t know if this is news but interesting to hear him say a lot of evil shit out-loud on a pretty mainstream platform. Also I watched it after the pager attack happened so it took on extra significance.

edit - fixed spelling of guy’s name

I saw the CEO’s appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher which aired Friday. It’s actually worth watching because he says stuff out-loud and he’s a true believer. His ideology such as it is is a lot like Sam Harris but he’s more mask off and more animated and enthusiastic.

He says the future of modern warfare will be peer to peer and drone to drone. “You’re going to be using software to control small instruments and there’s going to be hundreds of thousands of them.” He mentions fighting China and Russia specifically.

Thoughts. The mega-war comments were kinda cringe (esp vis a vis trans mega although I don’t think there was bad intent, hope not) and I wished people self policed more. (Not shaming anyone, bandwagons happen and now it’s corrected.) It seems these comments have been minimized and I appreciate the mod work on this. I don’t think it’s an issue anymore.

The “innocent” OT (and “oops wrong mega”) I appreciate as long as there are not too many.

The news mega is a community and sometimes I have an issue or topic that I’d like feedback and engagement on from my news comrades here. This is a common phenomenon across special interest groups, you become friendly and wish to expand the range of conversation or you wish to tap the knowledge base. (I suppose my saying this could be interpreted as a reason for More Moderation in news mega to ensure that other comms get love. It’s not my call.) Maybe a pinned comment to contain OT? Did someone else suggest that? Or what if we make a post in another targeted comm and leave a pointer here in the news mega. I’ve pointed to a news comm story in the news mega - and got positive feedback from a couple who had missed it.

Re doomer stuff. Let people vent, and use the reply. We all learn and so will the libs who wander in.

I hate this so much (CW: NSFL photo)

I was watching some European news channel in English about 30 minutes ago: The talking head guest is defending Israel and bemoaning Putler. The interviewer starts asking good questions. She’s pro-Kiev but points out the hypocrisy. She pointedly asks if the sanctions are working against Russia, and he hedges, well, yes. And she says then why not sanction Israel. And he says, we cannot apply logic here, it’s about principles.

I kept getting an ad on FB that literally said, Support Israel by purchasing this product. I reported it as inappropriate political content. I got a Support Messsage today that read, “We didn’t remove the ad.”

e - meant to post in the mega but whatevs

Agree, but please allow or forgive this rambling response.

85 US military bases and more than 52,000 US soldiers in Japan

While shocking on the face of it, I imagine sharing this with my “politically inclined” US acquaintances of D R and I stripe and hearing something like: “Well it’s either that or another Pearl Harbor/Nagasaki.”

When confronted with truths these people say: IF the US are the police if the world that’s a good thing.

Getting facts out in the open doesn’t seem to change opinion maybe because secretly people already know. Except we do see some resistance in the youth writ large who can see the horror in their feeds but I do not see much give in “polite society.” The most I get is a “yeesh, too bad about the situation in Palestine” and that’s ONLY if I know the person well.

A while back. I was telling one of my rad lib (and solidly Dem) acquaintances that Biden/US very likely blew up the pipeline. He agreed it was the likeliest scenario, but thought it was a “good thing that “we” did it.”

I watched hours of the RNC and I cannot stomach more than a couple minutes of the DNC.

I agree about Obama. His image is precision curated and he limits his public appearances which adds to his mystique. Michelle comes off masterfully too. They’ve got it.

Not an allegation but the best I got:

So horrified was he by the Tiananmen Square incident that he chose the date for his checks notes wedding day

<<Indeed, Mr Walz has often spoken publicly about his horror at the crushing of the Tiananmen protests, and in 2009 he co-sponsored a resolution in Congress marking its 20th anniversary.

<<His wife Gwen has said that the events had such an effect on Walz, that he chose 4 June - the day Beijing sent the troops in - as the date of their wedding five years later. She said that “he wanted to have a date he’ll always remember”.>>

BBC reporting

@autismdragon

I think you were looking for this

I don’t think there’s much there there beyond an ever-flexible lib narrative and squishy journalism. This is the pull-quote: “Throughout the war, U.S. officials have assessed that President Vladimir V. Putin is loath to expand the war beyond Ukraine’s borders.”

They are doing a Law & Order parody on the DNC right now.

Donald Trump. Guilty. Dun-dun.

I got recommended this YouTube video (Venezuela’s most dangerous beach) and this hype man gets on a packed bus speaking rapid spanish and he says “the last one to greet me with enthusiasm is a Maduro supporter.” He draws a few chuckles.

Found it

https://archive.is/8TeSt

Im shit-talking but who is the main negotiator for “Israel”?

Of course, but there’s a good chance the person who made this community note is voting for Kamala.

TIL there’s a place called Mayo. (Sorry Irish hexbears)

Was the food (fruit) a flex too?

In my head and heart I imagine a massive coalition is building

Good to know. I either didn’t know or remember that.

The Samantha Bee episode came out in Oct 2016.

The development of that segment is described here.