Even setting aside the moral aspect, this is also bad from a purely strategic point of view, considering that Ukraine has been struggling to get enough fighters and therefore cannot afford to let the remaining soldiers starve to death.

Trump would feel right at home then.

I agree with their issue 21 though, Palantir’s culture is truly ugly and harmful. Just look at what the US has become in a few months with the implementation of some of their ideas. That country is imploding.

This won’t solve anything, it will only create a black market and the vape industry will gain new customers.

The UK is on a wave of embracing ideas that have already proven to be failures at other places and other times, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they instituted Prohibition.

But if he proclaimed the opposite, it would be worse.

Dr. Evil before he lost his hair.

Perhaps we shouldn’t send politicians burned by domestic corruption scandals to Brussels. 🤔

No one should fail upwards.

Because slavery is more profitable.

And the new internet that is on the horizon will be the definitive establishment of these same billionaires as feudal lords.

Counter-example: Epstein. But just continue to collect the checks for campaigning in favour of big brother Zuck, Thiel and their corporate and government friends. LoL

These types, in general, don’t really care about their own children.

Not even at Easter do MAGA abstain from the White House special flour.

With something like a physical gift card.

Go to a store or kiosk, show them your ID card or driver’s license, and they’ll give you a card randomly chosen from the shelf with a code to activate the +18 version of any social network of your choice.

Each code could only be used once. People would have to buy more, at a symbolic cost, for each social network they wished to activate.

I would tend to be against this in the same way, but at least it would be something I could understand where the objective is actually what is being presented (protecting the children), albeit misguided, because to me it is clear that what is currently being promoted and proposed has nothing to do with age verification, but rather with mass surveillance, marketing and censorship.

Of course, just listen to the CEO of Palantir, he already admitted that that’s his goal. By inference, we can extrapolate that this is the goal of all major business leaders of these companies who are developing AI systems. They need more data to compete with China, and if that requires the West to have authoritarian mass surveillance systems, so be it.

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-a-surveillance-state-is-preferable-to-china-winning-the-ai-race-2000683144

I also have Asperger’s syndrome, it’s just the old name given to the condition of those who presented autism with the mildest symptoms of the spectrum, it doesn’t take away my ability to know the meaning of a Nazi salute and what doing it represents, so I see no reason to excuse him because of that.

Most likely Musk was testing the waters, but there’s also a high probability that he’s just plain stupid, after all, this is the same guy who pretended to be the best PoE2 player by paying others to play the game for him, only to then accidentally expose his own lie on a live stream.

Regardless of his reasons for making the gesture at that moment, taking into account his family history and the parties and people he supports, that gesture was without a shadow of a doubt a Nazi salute whose ideology he admires.