You are very correct to not like the sound of that, IMHO

Palantir was founded—with initial venture capital investment from the CIA—at a moment of national consensus following the September 11, 2001, attacks, when many saw fighting terrorism abroad as the most critical mission facing the US.

You mean the backlash to our constant and brutal meddling with the will and sovereignty of the rest of the world, the pillaging and raping of both the earth and the humans who occupy it for our own monetary gain? Living like kings through acts of evil so we could parade around calling ourselves The Greatest Country, and even going so far as to hide the worst of the worst atrocities from our own citizens, and the things that couldn’t escape the historical record being swept away as “but we’re better now!” and pretending that just by “stopping” (which we almost never actually do, we just hide it better) that we’ve fixed the problems?

That terrorism?

I guess 30% of Americans really did know it, and they voted for the most American man they knew of. God this place sucks.

No, the original “Make America Great Again” guy? The first actor elected President who presided over an unprecedented health crisis and ignored it because he hoped it would only hurt the “right” people, and plunged America into an economic disaster the likes of which we are still feeling today and may never recover from? That guy?

God this place actually sucks

It’s actually already proposed

Now that actually looks like a pattern put in on purpose.

I wonder if there was a technical reason for the windows in those watchtowers, or like if they were just trying to torment their village’s mentally challenged resident who happened to have an extreme distaste for unorderly things

Like granny never squirted on a blanket. She was young once too, how do you think your parents happened

There is a fifth mode: smitten with someone who put him in his place. Xi, Putin, hell even Mamdani

And then, they’re keeping those prices high.

Holy fuck 🏅 you win today’s internet

Those do not look like VHS cassettes

Linux devs would name something “Klitoris” literally just so the project website could say “you’ve finally found what you’re looking for”

10x devs just vibe code it in Rust to balance out the security issues 🤔

You’re right, we should just ignore these assholes and they’ll just leave us alone right?

Fucking zero-tolerance school rules nonsense

It’s…fine. I miss the direct skeuomorphic design language of the older iOS.

Ever since about the time of Windows 8 I felt like all computers were just designed for other computers.

It has? They can’t keep the MacBook Neo in stock. iPhones haven’t been the market innovator for a long time but they do what they do and they do it well. I don’t see lots of complaints about iPhone crashing all the time; the biggest issues are battery life of aging devices and repairability.

Seems like Apple is doing just fine.

No, metaphor works without considering clothing

Left boobs: not nothing, but probably smaller than deserved

Right boobs: if not artificially inflated, then the current nature of things has created a situation that may require surgery to alleviate the pain of carrying

“gal-i-lago” would have been fine

Not really following this one:

During setup, the app asks you to create a PIN. After entry, the app *encrypts* it and saves it in the shared_prefs directory. 1. It shouldn’t be encrypted at all - that’s a really poor design.

Isn’t the PIN supposed to be a secret? Why would it be bad to encrypt it?

…do they make a waterproof gray??

At the time of Gates, they wanted to monopolize the operating system market because that was the way to lock people in. People owned hardware and in order to make the most money your needs your OS to be their platform so they had no choice but to pay you.

Now in 2026 everyone’s OS is Chrome. So the goal is to make everyone depend on your cloud storage, on your productivity suite, on your chatbot, your automation platform, your cloud database. Then you give them just a state and then rent it to them in perpetuity.

This is why they don’t mind making RAM too expensive. Drives people to inexpensive devices and subscriptions for services for the hardware they can no longer afford and don’t have the skills to maintain.