I would search that system on my own, tbh.

The BMA said its opposition to Palantir’s involvement in the NHS was a matter of good governance, not ideology. “If Palantir’s software is being used to target individuals in immigration enforcement and is being deployed in active conflict zones, then that’s completely incompatible with the values we uphold in the delivery of care,” said Dr David Wrigley, the deputy chair of the BMA’s general practitioners committee. He warned patients would be alarmed and could choose to withhold information from their doctor if they did not trust the organisation processing their data or there were fears about what the data might be used for. The Liberal Democrat MP Martin Wrigley said the interoperability between the data systems Palantir provides for health and defence was “profoundly worrying”. The Conservative MP Kit Malthouse wanted to know if a military could target particular individuals with particular characteristics by using Palantir’s ability to process a large pool of data. Mosley said: “We provide an enormous amount of control and governance to the organisations that use our software for that purpose to manage precisely the kind of risks that you’re talking about.” Malthouse said: “That sounds like a yes”.

Yes. I dug in! It’s the difference between hearing and listening, looking and seeing. Just noting that hundreth monkey is on their own timeline.

Exactly.

Okay but every time anyone posts anything historically accurate, .world goes "lies!” ffs, they’re down to denying that h Hitler was defeated because of Russia and can’t bring themselves to write the opening line of “First They Came,” as a Lutheran pastor originally wrote it. Yes, we’re not only that unaware of history, but that propagandized.

I don’t think the populace does.

There should be no veto power and states* that export violence and their proxies should have no place on any human rights councils.

He recalled his father’s words: “Independence is not a gift. We cannot import democracy or revolution; we must create our own. What works in the United States may not suit Burkina Faso. Venezuela has chosen its path, and each country must decide what is best for its people.”

If only the global West could innerstand and overstand this.

You make me laugh, and I need that, so thanks! I’m sure your analyses are closer to accurate than my best guesses. I suppose what government or economic system states call themselves (or what media calls them) mean fa anymore. I’m not sure if we live in a post-truth world, or always have and it’s just so glaringly obvious, only those really emotionally invested in their illusions and those without mental capacity to identify them (whether through overwork and other stresses or direct learning/developmental disabilities) insist otherwise. Maybe most fall somewhere between those points, I’m certainly not as informed as I prefer.

I’ll have a look tonight or tomorrow. My project hours are all over the map, right now, which means my neighborhood and household obligations are, too.

Cheers!

Famous Zen teachers would just whack you with a stick or cut off a finger. bam! Instant enlightenment.

I believe it’s honest to give proper credit for the idea.

Is there nuance for Iranians? Russians?

Eta: Kurds? Syrians?

Is there no form of conscientious objection there?

Maybe we value the wrong things. Maybe greed is a lack perspective, too much isn’t enough. Kind of like people who lived during the Great Depression or had parents who insisted no penny would be spent on bubble gum.

Something about being careful what you wish for.

Strangely enough, we are often able to see each other’s shadow (Jung), and not our own.

Like Schrödinger and his cat?

I know and believe the sun will rise tomorrow.

No we don’t. Some unforeseen cosmic cataclysm could happen as I type this and obliterate our yellow star. I don’t believe it will, and have faith it won’t.

Like we believe in colors but there aren’t. It’s just the way light bends, reflects.

I went through that for the same reasons. If it was under our caregivers, they went through their traumas that caused that.

A scythe can be used for harvest, cutting a path, or murder. Tools are neutral, intent not so much. And purity doesn’t matter here. I can have purely loving intention and rob someone of their own. Or purely base intention and something beneficial occur by happenstance.