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grumbler

#1665
July 03, 2026, 07:37:14 PM
Quote from: Jacob on July 03, 2026, 07:13:28 PMIt looks like Spain instructed state backed companies from using Palantir technology.

It's a start.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

The Minsky Moment

#1666
July 03, 2026, 07:50:02 PM
Quote from: grumbler on July 03, 2026, 07:37:14 PM
Quote from: Jacob on July 03, 2026, 07:13:28 PMIt looks like Spain instructed state backed companies from using Palantir technology.

It's a start.

Next step: keep it away from the hobbits.
We have, accordingly, always had plenty of excellent lawyers, though we often had to do without even tolerable administrators, and seen destined to endure the inconvenience of hereafter doing without any constructive statesmen at all.
--Woodrow Wilson

crazy canuck

#1667
July 03, 2026, 09:07:18 PM
There's a Pippen in every crowd
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In several surveys, the overwhelming first choice for what makes Canada unique is multiculturalism. This, in a world collapsing into stupid, impoverishing hatreds, is the distinctly Canadian national project.

Jacob

#1668
July 03, 2026, 11:53:55 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 03, 2026, 07:50:02 PMNext step: keep it away from the hobbits.

Well it seems like Burnham is reviewing the UK's involvement, and I know Denmark is pulling out as well... so I guess it depends on who you think are the hobbits?

crazy canuck

#1669
July 04, 2026, 08:48:15 AM
Quote from: Jacob on July 03, 2026, 11:53:55 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 03, 2026, 07:50:02 PMNext step: keep it away from the hobbits.

Well it seems like Burnham is reviewing the UK's involvement, and I know Denmark is pulling out as well... so I guess it depends on who you think are the hobbits?

I could be wrong but I think the reference was to people being drawn to use it despite governmental decrees not to
Awarded 17 Zoupa points

In several surveys, the overwhelming first choice for what makes Canada unique is multiculturalism. This, in a world collapsing into stupid, impoverishing hatreds, is the distinctly Canadian national project.

grumbler

#1670
July 04, 2026, 03:31:59 PM
Quote from: Jacob on July 03, 2026, 11:53:55 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 03, 2026, 07:50:02 PMNext step: keep it away from the hobbits.

Well it seems like Burnham is reviewing the UK's involvement, and I know Denmark is pulling out as well... so I guess it depends on who you think are the hobbits?

MM's comment was a joke based on Pippin looking into Sauraman's palantir in LOTR.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Syt

#1671
July 04, 2026, 10:23:37 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 03, 2026, 09:07:18 PMThere's a Pippen in every crowd

Didn't know the 1990s Chcago Bulls were Hobbits. :P
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- hbomberguy

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Jacob

#1672
July 04, 2026, 10:50:49 PM
Quote from: grumbler on July 04, 2026, 03:31:59 PM
Quote from: Jacob on July 03, 2026, 11:53:55 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 03, 2026, 07:50:02 PMNext step: keep it away from the hobbits.

Well it seems like Burnham is reviewing the UK's involvement, and I know Denmark is pulling out as well... so I guess it depends on who you think are the hobbits?

MM's comment was a joke based on Pippin looking into Sauraman's palantir in LOTR.

Yes.

I was trying to give people an opportunity to extend the metaphor/ joke, but it didn't work out.
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