YouSeeAGoat
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to see a private company that works heavily with the government putting out a manifesto like this is pretty disturbing…
Silicon Valley needs to stay in its lane and realize that they are NOT the government and never will be. End of story.
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. 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. 15. 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. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. 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. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. 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. 21. 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. 22. 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? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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@tii_bag This gen z worker should negotiate both a raise and for all of the hr complaints to be removed from his record as a requirement for him to come back early.
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HR warned this gen z coworker of mine multiple times against coming to work dressed in casual but his argument was, "As long as I complete all my assigned tasks perfectly I don't think you should be concerned about my dress code." The other day he came in dressed in jeans and open shoes and so HR gave him a 2 weeks suspension. 3 days in and HR noticed alot of stuff at work was failing due to the gen z's absence so he contacted him to get back to office but the gen z is refusing to come back saying 2 weeks aren't over yet
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Los chicos y yo cuando el Papa León XIV nos llame a una cruzada para tomar la Casa Blanca y derrotar a Trump:
Globe Eye News@GlobeEyeNews
Pope Leo XIV responds to President Trump: "I have no fear of the Trump administration or of speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do and what the Church is here to do."
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@EmmanuelMacron "When security conditions allow."
Meaning, they will send a force to clear the strait, after the strait is safe and does not need them.
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Yesterday, I spoke with Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, as well as with U.S. President Donald Trump.
I urged the resumption of the negotiations suspended in Islamabad, the clearing up of misunderstandings, and the avoidance of any further escalation.
It is essential, in particular, that the ceasefire be strictly respected by all parties and that it include Lebanon.
It is equally important that the Strait of Hormuz be reopened unconditionally, without restrictions or tolls, as soon as possible.
Under these conditions, negotiations should be able to resume quickly, with the support of the key parties concerned.
France and the United Kingdom will also host a conference in Paris this Friday, bringing together by videoconference non-belligerent countries ready to contribute, alongside us, to a multilateral and purely defensive mission aimed at restoring freedom of navigation in the strait when security conditions allow.
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Militado ML05 (a.co/d/0dz56ZWf). It’s a copy of the Hamilton GG-W-133 used in Vietnam by pilots. It’s a bit larger than the original. What’s neat about it is the hands try mimicking the sweeping motion of old mechanical watches.
(I’m in no way getting paid for this, I just find it neat)
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25th Infantry Division
1st Brigade
Orient Shield 85’
日本の皆さん、こんにちは！
私たちの友情の証として、第25歩兵師団の印象を皆さんと共有しようと思います。
（もしアメリカで会うことがあれば、5.56mm弾の弾倉1個分の費用は私が負担します）
りゃだ＠ウッドの会🍓⚡️@Ryadovoi
Hey friends in America! Check out the #ウッドの会 tag to see photos of Japanese Otakus gathering outdoors!
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@romain_delyonne I didn't like Paris, but I really enjoyed the rest of France. I would go again.
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Les américains , est-ce que vous savez situer Paris sur une carte de France ?
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@UnamunoAgain the habsburgs, Mozart, and I suppose there is that failed painter fella.
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@Du_dggg I enjoyed my time in France, except the Paris metropolitan area, Paris was awful. Rest of France was 10/10.
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I was in ages ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth and we deployed to fancy sand castles. But we cleaned the barracks on Thursday and they were inspected Friday. I guess thats not the norm any more?
Also if the CSM is doing this, there must be some kind of shenanigans going on in the barracks.
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Things I ask myself when I see things like this:
1. Why not do it during the week?
2. How bad did it get to cause this reaction?
3. Where are the NCOs between CSM & the problem
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There are article 3 spending requirements for nato that are not part of the shared nato budget. Member states have requirements for spending on the individual defense budgets. This spending has been chronically underfunded by most European member states and Canada for about 25 years.
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Honestly! The $968B figure is total US defence spending, not paid to NATO or to Europe. US spending includes the Middle East, Israel, the Pacific, and US homeland defence, among others. NATO’s actual shared budget is a fraction of all that. I cannot believe that Europeans have to tell you this.
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee
It’s Time To Leave NATO
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Once again, the Europeans completely miss the spending requirements part of the nato charter, a nato member has to spend a certian amount of money on the national military budget in order to ensure that they have military capabilities to defend the alliance. That is regardless or wether that budget is currently being spent in Europe or not.
The budget portion European nato members and Canada have chronically underspent for the last 25 years. With most nato members not just managed to achieve the minimum s0ending requirements in 2025.
Europeans are great at writing fiction, but at telling the truth, not so much.
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It is largely nonsense, when US Americans claim that they pay for the defence of Europe. They spend a lot of money on their millitary, but that is entirely their own choice, and it does not go to having troops in Europe.
Russia's annual military budget was 140 billion USD in 2024. Europe spends three times more and it is rising rapidly.
Europe is thus well on its way to becoming a military super power and is fully capable of defending itself.
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Nato without the US and with Ukraine would be better.
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Woke up to literally everyone being retarded. Not sure what to do.
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@kaeruZangyo I think I have seen one of these before, but I am not sure.
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@HAPIOKI And how does an American such as myself go about eating such a nice looking dish?
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