It isn’t always a distraction. These are bad people doing bad things because they are bad.

For ghouls like Palantir, this is a feature not a bug.

The US has been saying this about Iran for at least twenty years despite Iran being a part of the UN’s watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA provides regular oversight of nuclear programs to ensure they are for peaceful programs. Iran has been working with nuclear material conducive with nuclear power generation, not the kind needed for nuclear missiles, and yet the US always waves the bogeyman argument.

For these ghouls, it is a bit reductive but it works as a general rule: manufacture and foment instability for oil. It is always oil with these freaks.

You still have to have the money to move, be healthy enough to be accepted by the new country, etc. For many many people there is no choice. None. Often those that need it most.

Not blaming anyone that has the agency to leave. But it is what it is.

Like most US folks, I wish I had job flexibility and the money to just up and emigrate. Alas most have no choice but to stay.

Israel is a haven for testing tech on Palestinians and then selling the tech to western investors.

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/israel-companies-allegedly-test-surveillance-technologies-on-palestinians-before-exporting-such-abroad/

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-weaponization-of-things-israels-technoviolence-a-litmus-test-for-technologists/

*the companies that refuse to use Linux compatible anti-cheats

Oh no, anyways

Spoiler, everyone involved is AI.

Most of us would be dead and what isn’t left to certainty is left to extreme improbabilty. So no, likely not.

It was not.

Just because people did it, didn’t make it acceptable then nor now. Just because a person murders another person and it happened, doesn’t make it acceptable. There is a bend to history written by the powerful that history absolves because “what was acceptable was different at the time.” This line of thinking is flawed, ethics existed then too. Things like slavery and racism were just as wrong during times of codified ‘legal’ chattel slavery as it is today. It silences those enslaved and the many many people who decried its existence.

Same applies here.

Literally what we are fighting against with the Epstein files is precisely this.

And fwiw, it wasn’t acceptable then nor now.

I got that before I commented.

Companies pivoting to rent seeking is an awful trend.

That’s it. That’s the totality.

Just SETI?

The billionaire “nobility” installed the dicators.

Anyone who believes the ficticious idea that if everyone is mad at you, then you’re making the right decisions is certifiable.

FWIW, not one single species, not a single genera, but a single tribe (Euglossini) of bees in the Corbiculata clade of bees. From wikipedia,

There are about 200 described species, distributed in five genera: Euglossa, Eulaema, Eufriesea, Exaerete and the monotypic Aglae.