Gentryfried

Have to wonder why this happens so much, that atheists marry jews and cave to their pressure or requests to raise the kids in the jewish faith

They're not the ones behind the genocide... in israel... at the hands of zionists. Sorry.

They didn't rape any teenagers. This is just how royalty worka, obviously their uncle the king will still look out for them.

One of you say they're spongers because they're married; the royal family has multiple properties and plots of land, so it's basically like providing your nieces with one of your spare homes for when they're visiting the country (one of them is married to an italian man i think?).

It's Logical.

What, small businesses? All small businesses in general?

I see it as they mainly do it just to avoid the small fee for card payment providers. I don't know if this exists for traditionak scanners but it's significant where i work, which uses Zello and Paypal.

But yes some places like cash so that they can more easily minimise taxable profits.

The tax evasion tricks at play aren't as bad as large corporations, and i don't ~~utilise~~ buy from businesses which are obvious money laundering fronts, so my conscience is clear. Allegedly (from business teachers at secondady school, who admittedly were wrong about a lot of things) so many small businesses do small things to minimise volume of taxable income, that it's not worth being concerned about.

Most probably can't be bothered, and don't drive the "cash please!" Thing too hard, so i think they deserve it... as a treat. And then there are other reasons cash is important to them, like facilitating change for old people and day labourers who use the business

I get expenses from volunteering covered by cash and buses card reading is very unreliable where i live. Lots of the fish+chip shops are cash only. All this has cultivated an equal usage of cash and card for me.

Small businesses genuinely prefer to receive cash, too, so i try and do something nice for the shops in my community.

Yeah....... last time a judge banned reporting on something like this - southport riots.

Thank you judge. Another summer of riots it is.

Starmer was the best the “left” could do and now the country is fucking doomed.

Haa he actually ever claimed to be left wing?

I do genuinely think that using them is a sign of low intelligence or at least herd following, because you go out of your way to deliberately unlearn/avoid using the device the way it was intended just to bend to the will of big tech tdlling you what to do.

Also i just see speaking randomly into my phone in public as rude to others

They're for absolute numpties. I knew someone who started using them all the time because it's hip or something, never listened to them and got him to stop. It takes more effort than typing them and suggests you're in love with your own voice or speak too much

Why does china pick on us so much

Point by point (5-12)

The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

Given the last point, i think their adversaries are the whole world. It's sounding like a call for eternal warfare.

National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

I agree with national service, but only when defending a country rather than working for an AI megacorp. For a country which engages in war as often and as recklessly as the USA, conscription becomes a fact of life anyway (see Russia for more evidence). Also National service should be as brief as possible, and about training people rather than punishing them by holding them in a place they don't want to be.

If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

Already said (and demonstrated) that they don't fuck around with debates.

Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

No, instead our priests are AI!

We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

Just slip 'we're against cancelling <3' in there like it has anything to do with the rest of the manifesto

The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

"Those who look to politics to nourish their soul and sense of self... well, we prefer those who join politics for the money and power."

"who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet"

wat? Like being satisfied with their voter approval? The countries approval? Unless i'm parsing this wrong, then this (again) totally is fascism.

Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

Again the manifesto has already dirty-talked to me about how much it wants to crush its enemies with AI-powered warfare.

The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

Idk, i just picture shrek's "yeah right, like that'll ever happen!" clip when I read this one. AI isn't a deterrent, we know that every other country has access to AI

13 to 22

No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

This is the "please please PLEASE let us kill some people, we deserve it for playing your game for a bit!" Talkkng point that conservatives (i.e the softer right-wing on the market) will alwaya bring up to coax progressive pelple into playing ball.

"Ten sets of Black Lives Matter followed by ten sets of All Palestinians are Terrorists."

American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

Not much to pick at there.

The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

Just lol.

We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20 to 22

The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Word vomit salad. "America for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity." Nothing could be less true. America tried its hardest to corrupt and ruin multiple cultures. America has the most powerful propoganda machine, hollywood.

"You will own nothing and feel nothing"

Edit: link to palantirs manifesto

My thoughts point by point (1-4)

Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation

Sure.

We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible

What? The iPhone is fucking NOTHING. What are you, a 13 year old from ~~6 years~~ ten years ago? Who even thinks like this?

Also, iPhones have apps. They just have apple apps.

My brain hurts from how unprofound this is juet 2 points in. Can we get to the fascism yet?

Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public

Yeah so that's fascist. In a very lame capitalist way, too. Nobody has ever said or believed these things before, it's like fascist mythologising to justify extracting even more out of the workforce at the end of history.

The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Translation: We will use warfare to crush non AI empowered societies.

You might say that they're proposing this because it's the only thing their AI has proven to be good at, but i'm pretty sure the AI fucked up when it decided to target primary schools in Iran over and over again. The alternative case - that Palantir staff/ the mikitary chose to target little girls, is much worse.

Don't know if i can be bothered to give annotations to each point but i'll put all the other points in my next comment (nested under this) for readers convenience.

"NOWHERE IS SAFE!"

That's nice, Guardian. Part of a series, is it?

Does it? I feel like i would've already heard from journalists who had this happen to them. I also lnow that the iranian state's arm doesn't seem to reach this far - if it did, it would go for america or israel first.

Would love to see a thriving British video game industry. Everyone knows that Indie games are better than AAA companies and we happen to be very short of big corporations likely to eat up smaller studios, so thzt won't be a problem🤧👍

Not on PC, but on my tablet I just use the youtube app and i haven't been bothered to look into adblocks on the app. You have to use browser to adblock, right?

Doesn't seem like an unreasonable assumption, Wales is mostly white and almost all white outside of Cardiff, Swansea, and maybe Newport and Wrexham. And I have heard they only push it in schools to the west of Caerdydd

That's absolutely groundbreaking.

To be fair, i doubt that those government agencies will follow the rule anyway. Much like how Wales passed a law saying politicians can no longer lie there, lol. But i appreciate the prime minister reigning in the services a little.

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Opium Fields

Shower thought: If we hadn't introduced grey squirrels to this country we wouldn't have to faff about with squirrel proof bird feeders

Where do you draw the line between "go to the GP about it" or "tank the damage"?