The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1063
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Summary
The Lotus Eaters are joined by special guest Stelios to talk about the growing problem of Santa denial and the science man Neil de Grasse Tyson to prove that Santa's reindeer are actually magic reindeers.
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Friday the 13th, ooh spooky, but
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Christmas, because it's December 2024. I am Josh and he is Santa Claus and he is Saint
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Nicholas. Hello, Merry Christmas. Hello everyone. We're very blessed to have a very special
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guest today. Stelios. Are you going to bring me presents? Stelios, you've not got your hat
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on, you're getting cold this year. You've been a very naughty boy, Stelios. I didn't want
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to leave my hat on. He wants to prove to everyone that he's brushed his hair this time, but after
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that nasty comment saying that you hadn't brushed your hair. That wasn't the comment, it's more
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like I was listening to your hat on as I was preparing my segment. Stelios. Comments are
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temporary. Christmas is forever. Ho, ho, ho. And today we're talking about the crusade
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against Santa deniers. Stelios is going to bless us talking about a ho, ho, ho. I'm right
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here. I know, yeah, exactly. It's the thing, isn't it? What the hell? I know. And then Santa
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Claus here is going to talk about an evil corporation. A shady mega corporation. Ho, ho, ho. When Santa's
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not delivering presents, he has a lot of free time. He's been spending a lot of time
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on the internet, Santa Claus has. But anyway, we have no announcements and I suppose I may
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as well get into it. So, there is an epidemic of Santa denying and I for one will not have
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it. So, recently, Santa Claus was branded a foreign agent in Russia, which I think is
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disgusting. I think that this is Santa denying at a statewide level, which is just unacceptable.
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Listen, all because I was trying to deliver attack ams over the border for Ukraine doesn't
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mean I'm a foreign agent, alright? I want more presents. I know. Where have you been all this year?
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I think Putin must have got some coal last year and he took it personally. Well, Russia does have
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a lot of coal. I stick to the list, Putin. I'm sorry.
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He's not on the list. A very Russian thing to say. But apparently, Vitaly Borodin, the
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leader of the Federal Project on Security and Combating Corruption, sent a letter to
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Russia's Prosecutor General, imploring that the iconic Christmas figure be designated a
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foreign agent due to his popularity in unfriendly countries, which use his image to undermine
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traditional Christmas values. And Borodin is also known for filing police reports against
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purported enemies of the state, including journalists, singers, songwriters, and even
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chocolate manufacturers. So he is full of anti-Christmas spirit.
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I'll tell you who else is a Scrooge and I don't want to hear from this Christmas. The
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Science Man. Look at this Science Man. This is an old post from 2020, but I'm going to
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I've not been in the presence for this man since he was 12 years old.
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Not even coal. If he doesn't believe in me, then he doesn't get anything.
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This is Neil deGrasse Tyson, of course, the Science Man himself. Santa doesn't know zoology.
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Both male and female reindeer grow antlers, but all male reindeer lose their antlers in
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the late fall, well before Christmas. So Santa's reindeer, which are all sport antlers, are
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therefore all female, which means Rudolph has been misgendered. Now this, of course, is
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overlooking the fact that they're magic reindeer, actually, Neil. So, yeah, get your facts straight.
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That's fake news. And he's also done other science, well, science-denying posts because,
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of course, Santa is, you know, the real scientist here. For Santa to deliver gifts to all the
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world's Christians in one night requires hypersonic speeds through Earth's lower atmosphere, vaporizing
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Don't ask me to explain how it works. It just works. It's magic.
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In case you're wondering, for Santa in a single 24-hour Earth night to deliver presents to
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all those who celebrate Christmas, he must visit 25,000 homes per second.
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Yeah, I know, yeah. He's a hard-working man. Don't keep him down. And he says, since the
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northern Arctic is just ocean, Santa's North Pole workshop has only ever existed on a floating
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sheet of ice. Imagine that portrays Santa's workshop with pine trees and snow-capped hills on
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the horizon are geographically under-informed. And I'll tell you who else is under-informed.
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So he sounds, he kind of sounds like Mr. Freeze. He's dwelling there with lots of ice.
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I'm not sure if I've ever seen Santa Claus and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the same room.
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In Jingle Bells, I think. Wasn't he dressed like Santa at some point?
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That's true. But I'm going to take this off now. I struggle to breathe in this.
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Apologies. I hate to break it to all of the children.
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Very few people can stomach wearing the full attire.
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Well, I'm not actually Santa. I hate to break it to you. So, you know.
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I'm not cut out for it. It's a stronger man than me.
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So, also, there have been seemingly sort of Curtis Yarvin-esque criticisms of Santa Claus.
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Here he's saying Santa, a.k.a. Father Christmas, is a Catholic deception to teach a centrally administered
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naughty or nice system of works salvation. The Reformation has proved beyond a doubt that
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gifts are bought to good and bad children by the free grace of a diffuse network of local
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Nerd. Exactly. Of course, although my background is, of course, Protestant Christian, I reject
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this notion that it is this diffuse network, this emergent system of gnomes, as opposed to
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the central figure of Santa Claus. And I also wanted to play you a video, and this is quite
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harrowing, so be warned, people at home. This is a true believer in Santa Claus being oppressed
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by agents of the state. And here is the video. Just wait and see. Hang on.
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Santa Claus, if you could hear us, please, Santa Claus. Please put me on the nice list.
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Let's see the anti-Santa Claus actors outside there, look.
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People tagging Tom Cruise and Donald Trump, both known to have a direct line for Santa Claus.
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Breaking his car window, especially in the wind.
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This is what happens if you're a true believer in Santa Claus.
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If you want to know who that actually was, that was Winston Dale Cave, who did a live stream
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where he prayed to Donald Trump to rescue him after he threatened staff at a school.
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Well, clearly the school's teachers were anti-Santa.
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So, I'm not just going to make baseless assertions.
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So I'm going to show you some evidence, and the first of which is this fact,
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that Newsweek reported 22 hours ago, at the time of recording,
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pilot encounters mystery objects moving at extreme speeds.
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And as Jack Posobiac rightly points out, Santa deniers are in shambles at this.
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They're seeing a fast object moving across the sky.
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I mean, you know, Stelios, you're a philosopher.
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You know that this is the most logical explanation.
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Santa brings everyone their presents on Christmas night with his magic.
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the simplest explanation is obviously the truest.
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This is what the Santa denier actually believes.
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He's made up by corporations to sell stuff at Christmas.
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But all parents are in on this conspiracy to make the children behave.
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And then regular people just buy and wrap all these presents.
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And then the cookies just happen to be eaten the next day
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And then, apparently, all of the Santa Claus is in the mall
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and in the various places Santa Claus appears are just imposters.
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There are just too many people involved in it to be believable.
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I, for one, am not falling for this ridiculous argument.
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I think in about a year, the way Twitter is going,
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we will have lots of very famous people with millions of followers
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So Santa can simultaneously deliver many presents.
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Anyway, he's obviously giving us the straight facts
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about the saint himself, Saint Nicholas, of course.
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However, he only appears once you are sleeping.
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And this is one thing that Santa deniers always forget
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They wouldn't depict someone who doesn't exist.
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there's also evidence that the Christmas prophecies
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So, we'll get on to St. Nicholas's tomb being located.
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is that a grandma will be run over by reindeer.
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And this, of course, happened here in Watertown, New York,
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during their turkey trot around the 8th of December.
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You can see here reindeer fulfilling the prophecy.
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So, lots of true believers have been pushing back
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against the Santa deniers, and it's wonderful to see.
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The coal alarm is actually a force for good in the world.
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that they're a bad actor that's trying to get you...
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We've got a slop civil war brewing in the office, by the way.
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who Santa's going to put on the naughty and nice list.
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And you've got to do things to those who insult Santa.
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Yeah, these representatives of our culture here.
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and how can you track something that doesn't exist?
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That's from the rare Breaking Bad Christmas episode.
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are some some cases where people are behaving in
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ways where they're overtly harming themselves and
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this this is a big question I haven't decided yet
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there are some people who say well just don't do
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nothing and some others have the Saudi approach
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and I will tell you here this this is the story of a
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man who was 1344 pounds people can watch on a website
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and click on it and you see that the Saudi king at
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some point said this is just really bad and we need to
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help this person this is obvious an obvious case of
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self-harm they broke the wall they put him on a diet and now he is
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surprisingly very healthy and this is a success story very healthy yeah he is
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that possible he has actually sustained it this is more benevolent than anything at
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any Western government has done in decades I like how he's descending in a bed as
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well he looks like a caricature of some old Arabian king actually like they're about
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to start worshipping him it reminds me of 300 where he's on the no I'm just saying this because I wanted to show that I wanted to show you the philosophical debates and philosophical dimensions of the issue and I want to let's say improve the discussions that have already taken place about her because the whole internet is talking about it so thank you
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still a slag though let's see what the rumble rants have to say about the slag
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go on sell us right got some reading to do ryan hinnigan a lot of people have had a lot to say about l slag
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right only 1440 minutes in a day a thousand in a day means about a minute each plus transition times
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i like that there's some contingency planning there as guy number 998 i he plans on bringing a bible and filibustering by reading paul's first letter to the corinthians the engaged few
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anyone taking bets on how long until lily goes on the maury show and starts crying as she's told that the 18th man she has had
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tested isn't the father of one of the 11 kids who fell out of her connor's smug mug her parents are a problem
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especially when you consider her mother is her head of finance finance that's disgusting her mommy is
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genuinely disgusting but she said they're very supportive that's that's even more disgusting imagine
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being a father right yeah imagine being a father and not only tolerating that your daughter does that
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but encouraging it and supporting it that means that you are disgusting a miller one one two
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technically it is a bat on race had someone picked up on that um z ranks too many are quick to strip
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women of their agency and accountability to safeguard their public image such people are great to
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degenerate their exhibiting neither kindness nor compassion for lily absolutely because agency is the
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way to actually improve the situation that's why i was so harsh about her yeah she's utter scum and
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deserves to suffer um for what she's done dragon lady chris i can't help picturing a hundred naked guys
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standing around with tickets in their hands and hair calling out now serving number 18 like a like a
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post office like the mcdonald's you know where you you take the plastic no yeah the men are not exempt
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either i saw a video as well of a man who found out the news that he'd be sleeping with her with his
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girlfriend who he went in to give her a kiss and she went like that was like she's clearly not
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comfortable with this then why would she be engaged few i think we all need a course of antibiotics after
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this segment makes me wonder which of the 100th line was the first to hear an echo down here yeah
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it's not just her making money it's also a health problem because she is obviously spreading diseases
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there no amount of testing is a hundred percent and with a thousand people it is inevitable
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josh she'll get something is are you maybe calling for a new lockdown
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uh again the engaged few carl talked up stellius's segment last night glad to see that stellius has
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lived up to it thank you uh that's a random name i love how josh and harry look like two disapproving
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fathers also you guys should look into the sugar baby industry which is incredibly predatory in young
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women lots of shady stuff dear lord that sounds like a horrible segment to look into and yet if i was
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her father i'd disown it yeah sorry i'm not having a whore in my home this is one of those uh things
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where it's like that post where it says women will do things like this and wonder why every society in
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history has had massive restrictions on women's autonomy anyway let me just have a little sippy
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all right now on to the serious news gents we've had santa denial which is serious news to be fair
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we've had ho ho hoes which is stellius's favorite kind of news now we're going to look into the dark
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side of global governance and the people who are actually controlling the world because for a long
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time i've heard people talking about this company called palantir whenever some big government
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initiative begins i see people commenting on things saying that oh great well this is going to be another
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contract for palantir to gobble up and i always thought to myself well who are these guys and why do
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people seem so distrustful of them so in preparation for this i've taken the past week or so to start
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looking into them and i will say having looked into them i also am very wary of them do not trust them
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and think they are an incredibly shady organization so who are palantir well they're essentially a spyware
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and ai digital infrastructure company that produce a number of different products that are mainly sold
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to governments and government agencies to help them in whatever goal it is that they're pursuing
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at the time so you can go onto their website and find a little bit of this sort of information
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where they're talking about their focus on creating the world's best user experiences for working with
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data empowers people to ask and answer complex questions building platforms for integrating managing
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and securing data on top of which we layer applications for fully interactive human driven
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machine assisted analysis they're a big company behind the llm the language learning model so
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a lot of you things like um i think chat gpt and other ai chat helpers work off of llms palantir are
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a big company behind this and you can see some of the platforms that they have these are their four
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main platforms they've got aip they've got foundry they've got gotham and they've got apollo
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the most important one i want to look at here just very briefly is the gotham software which is used
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as part of ai digital weapons systems it's also quite a sinister name considering in the batman
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universe of which gotham city is you know a setting they have the device which uses everyone's phones to
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create a 3d map of the entire city yes which is the sort of thing that the ceo of this company
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a man called alex carp who we'll get into a little bit more later because given that he is the head of
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this company that makes him one of the most powerful men in the world i think it's pretty reasonable to
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want to know who he is what he's after what drives him what motivates him what his end goals are
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um so he would not care too much about you comparing it that way he would say yeah sounds about right
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tough look if you don't like that get over it they're very very brazen or at least he is very
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brazen about the fact that his company has been used as spyware and says that this is a very good
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thing and again some of the things that they do as we'll find out seem to be based around um managing
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outcomes for governments that you could see as being beneficial to the government so for instance
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they uh help ice they help uh they want to help track down in the uk they want to help track down
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say um benefits frauds people like that using these ai data management tools to be able to identify
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people who are most likely to have been benefit cheats so that sounds like it could be a good thing
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but the problem is that being a global organization and having every system in the west in the uk in the
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us run through them means that they have a ridiculous amount of power and access to basically everybody's
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information at all times but for instance the gotham has been used in ukraine as far as i'm aware to help
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them to identify enemy targets and make strike targeted strikes on them of the kind that would never have
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been available before this so excuse me when you see the footage coming from the front lines of
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ukraine where they're fighting against russians and you see all of the drone warfare that's going on
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because that's one of the big innovations that's come from this a lot of that seems to be backed by
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palantir they're creating the software that makes it so those drones can be as efficient as possible
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in the uk as i mentioned they're already set up here they work with the nhs
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uh they as they say on here have been proud to serve the nhs since the beginning of covid 19 pandemic
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when our software helped distribute ventilators and ppe where patients needed them most they also
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helped to roll out the vaccines and that meant that the palantir software was used to determine
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where the vaccines needed to go and were also used to help track down people who weren't vaccinated
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so it was helping to make sure people who didn't want to get take this new vaccine
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it was making sure that you were able to find them and target them
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so right that seems to me to be somewhat of a shady thing but they say more recently our software has
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been helping a number of nhs trusts to reduce waiting lists and drive up the use of operating
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theaters it enables patients to be treated sooner so again with this kind of technology there's always
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a give and a take right there are good applications that it can be used for bad applications that it can be
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used for i'm not necessarily looking at the fact that this technology can be used as a tool for
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good and bad i'm looking at the company itself and the people specifically alex carp who runs it and
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saying do i trust this technology in their hands do i trust that they have the best interests of
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everybody of all of their clients so you're not looking at you're not looking at the potential of
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the technology per se more so the intentions of the people wielding it yes and i will say personally as
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well when it comes to big shady companies like this and ai in general i am not eager for a world
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in which we are ruled by uh massive ai systems that have been programmed by untrustworthy people
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because the artificial part of artificial intelligence is to me the most important part of
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this at the end of the day it's all still running on algorithms and machine learning right which will be
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determined mainly by the people who develop this technology we saw with chat gpt and the other ones when
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they first rolled out that yeah they were able to have amazing pattern recognition that made them
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racist and immediately the people who made that pulled all of that out and basically gave it brain
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damage to stop it from being racist and it's the same sort of thing that'll be going with this where
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the people who program it are able to manipulate it to basically get whatever ends they want it's
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going to create a massive centralization of power is what's going to happen and of course if you rule
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by via machine you can tweak the code in the background and no one is any the wiser and if
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you do it smartly you know you tweak it gradually over time who knows what you can do to a populace
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with this kind of technology it's it is absolutely terrifying for the future and i think that we think
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our tyranny now is bad at least you know you can see through it to a certain extent because it's still
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done by human beings and we have an understanding of it and considering most people don't understand
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machine learning models we don't have the first you know we don't even know the first thing about
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how to address the problem in the first place let alone uh how to address the tyranny that it's
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going to well also it's inherently globalist if you bring all of the west's governmental systems
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under this that as you say centralizes all of it and sort of pushes us further into a form of
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global government i imagine the one world government conspiracy theorists are going to have an absolute
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field day with this company yeah absolutely um as i mentioned they're also aiding ice there
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we've got multi-million dollar contract with the ice to store data on illegal immigrants purchases calls
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and movement so it could help track them down uh they also have uh massively increased their stock
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due to a u.s special operations command contract the agreement which is valued at 36 million dollars
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for one year alone designates palantir as the primary software integrator for uss for us socom's
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mission command system again just another bit of a massive very very important infrastructure being
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brought under them they got the they got a 480 million dollar pound contract on nhs to run their
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data platform it awarded them a contract for the federated data platform to the u.s spy technology
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to firm palantir in the face of opposition from the bma the doctors association patients group and
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privacy campaigners the fdp is designed to overcome a structural flaw in the nhs's management of data
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over time a wide variety of data storage software has been used within and outside hospitals general
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practices and other care providers but the software has struggled to talk with other programs
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making it difficult to transfer patient records between hospitals so it seems that this technology is
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going to be used to aid in that process because of course the nhs has actually been held to ransom
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by hackers quite a few times which is crazy to me that that can even be allowed to happen you'd
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think that'd be a matter of national security wouldn't you yes you would but instead they're
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handing it over to these guys instead and again if you think that the problem with liberal democracy
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and its diffused state as it exists right now is the fact that nobody is accountable whatsoever to
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anything ever every single problem that pops up is well that's above my pay grade i can't handle that
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that's somebody else's job imagine how bad it'll be when all the decisions are being made by ais nobody
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will be held accountable because there'll be no human face to it and i'd rather be governed by
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other human beings than technology but carrying on they've also lobbied ua uk disabilities ministers
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so that they can try and help tackle benefit fraud again this can be seen as something that would be good
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for the uk because i think we should tackle benefit fraud absolutely the problem is that this would bring
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another area of our government and remember this is a foreign company this is a u.s company
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under the control of palantir so it may look like a good thing but it's really them extending their
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power and then there's the fact that it would also probably get rolled into tony blair tony blair's
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plans for the nhs now they don't actually mention palantir explicitly in this because what they're
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talking about is tony blair's plans to use ai to fix the nhs basically by basically shutting down gps
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and replacing them with ai chatbots instead which doesn't sound great but it doesn't mention palantir
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here explicitly but if you scroll down to the bottom they have tagged palantir and related organizations
00:56:46.040
because i do think that we know that if this this was to be made reality they would probably be the
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ones handling it right and uh as i mentioned they've also been doing stuff with ukraine uh this
00:56:57.620
is alex carp by the way and if you wanted him to seem like a normal and trustworthy person
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i don't know why you'd go with this picture but that's neither here nor there uh alex carp himself
00:57:09.620
studied under uh the university of goethe i believe and did german philosophy directly underneath uh
00:57:16.820
jürgen habermas oh that's concerning uh he also in this telegraph article obviously it talks a lot
00:57:23.100
about the history of the company which i'll get into in a few minutes and it talks about um what
00:57:27.560
they've been doing with ukraine how they've been using their ai technology not just to help with
00:57:31.840
finding all of these different targets but also to help unearth likely locations for what they're
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deeming as russian war crimes as well like they're trying to use this pattern recognition technology to
00:57:43.020
determine where mass graves may be buried which is very interesting uh but he notes in a number of
00:57:48.720
times here uh that things like he's an economic progressive i'm massively left of center i believe
00:57:54.840
there's one article where he actively describes himself as a neo-marxist so it's all very all what
00:58:01.900
i want to hear from a man at the head of one of the most powerful companies in the entire world
00:58:05.900
there's more information here about it all uh but if i carry on let's start talking specifically
00:58:11.660
more specifically about alex carp and all of this is very very public information uh so that just
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this one as well um they're talking about his career rise and they also say that uh you know
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after they've been taking a lot all of these contracts on they've had these huge spikes in their stock
00:58:29.980
that background in the picture is the icing on the cake isn't it that's funny isn't it uh but he says
00:58:35.140
that um he says in regard to the breach of privacy that his technology just inherently causes he says
00:58:43.400
you may not agree with them bless you don't work here he said of tech workers who have qualms about
00:58:48.780
the company's data mining we don't like people who are coming in and saying we want to kill terrorists
00:58:53.320
and just do it without data protection bless your soul if you want to distribute carcinogens with your
00:58:58.440
great intellect in the form of consumer internet he's not exactly i've watched a few interview clips with
00:59:03.940
him he's not the most eloquent speaker as you might be able to tell but basically what he's saying
00:59:09.400
there is um we kill terrorists they they always like to say that they kill terrorists or provide
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the technology that helps to identify terrorists and then kill them and prevent terror attacks and if
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that means that we have to completely destroy any kind of civil civil liberty that you have as an
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individual citizen then we're more than willing to do it the patriot act in america was the
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blessing for these kinds of people who are like great we have absolute carte blanche to spy on our
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citizens for the sake of saying oh we're fighting the war on terror yeah because that's why the u.s
00:59:45.060
government really wants to spy on its citizens in it because they just care about you so much
00:59:50.820
george w bush cared about the citizens so much dick cheney just wanted to make sure that you
00:59:56.900
american citizen were safe at home from terrorism no no they just wanted to spy on you i can tell you
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what's going to happen here what's going to happen is this sort of thing is going to be plug into the
01:00:08.640
pre-existing surveillance architecture and it's going to monitor all citizens internet usage data usage
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and it's going to create a model in which it's going to you don't even necessarily need to view
01:00:22.080
something that is controversial or illegal but it will have predictive utility in saying well
01:00:28.080
you're more likely to potentially do this thing and it's going to lead to the justification of
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pre-crime where people minority reporters it is yeah they're going to go out of their way and say
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you're on the track of committing a crime or this will come about um with this sort of technology
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if the philosophy of governance does not change yeah i i agree completely which is what makes it
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so worrying so alex carp is already recognized by places like fortune as one of the most 100 powerful
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businessmen in the world he does have a net worth of about seven billion dollars i think which is
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unsurprising but at the same time the whole reason for him coming about in the first place in this
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position is very strange because as i mentioned he went to law school with peter teal
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and he then went on to do a phd university of germany philosophy a german philosophy degree in goethe
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under jürgen habermas and then was basically just handed the ceo position to this company by peter
01:01:28.180
teal anything to say on habermas stelios i just want to say philosophy degrees sometimes give good
01:01:34.340
curious prospects have you ever been thanks for that marketing department for philosophy have you ever
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been handed the ceo position to a massive shady spy corporation yeah and i said no because i want to
01:01:46.340
come here with you guys you're a man with morals in that case not i want to be not an alex carp
01:01:51.180
but he writes his uh letters to shareholders in 2020 the company went public before then
01:01:57.300
unsurprisingly they'd been operating for about 17 years purely off of government contracts and had not
01:02:04.520
actually ever turned the profit so they were purely kept up by government contracts because
01:02:09.860
you know they're not a company that provides consumer value they're a company that provides
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political value and that's why they exist and we'll find out why they would prop them up in just a
01:02:21.340
few minutes but he says stuff in here you know commitment to risk-taking innovation of american
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that provides us unparalleled yada yada yada we believe the rewards from the embrace of ai in the u.s
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will be immense here's the most important part because this relates to the global american empire
01:02:36.740
and palantir's place in it american influence in this unique hour comes not just from the controlling
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of the supply of ai but also from the ability to strategically deploy the newest technologies
01:02:49.180
across our most prominent corporations and institutions our unchallenged ability to channel
01:02:55.100
and guide the demand we create our own demand for integrating ai seamlessly with essential data
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distribution and decision making structures is what truly sets us apart we built this company to
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arm and defend our most significant institutions not tinker at the margins creating idle decadent
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diversions i think that kind of sums up what this company is they are a massive extra extrajudicial
01:03:18.920
branch of the u.s government who works to expand american influence across the globe by basically
01:03:25.520
creating demand for their own products so that all digital infrastructure in the west europe and the
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and the u.s is under one umbrella which is palantir that's what it comes across to me he basically said
01:03:39.540
it there and now we can get a more in-depth look at the man himself there's a interesting article from
01:03:44.760
the new york times asking a pretty reasonable question saying alex carp has money in power so what does he
01:03:50.120
want and i'll draw out some of the highlights that they say from here they start off mr carp is a lean
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extremely fit billionaire with unruly salt and pepper curls i will say i get massive ex machina
01:04:01.440
vibes from this guy especially given a lot of his justification for it is well if we didn't do it
01:04:07.420
somebody else would and they would be worse and you would be suffering under them so you've got to
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suffer under us instead which is basically oscar isaac's justification in ex machina either way
01:04:17.460
uh he has adhd great start and can't hide if he's not interested in what somebody is saying
01:04:22.960
after a hyper spurt of talking he loses energy and has to recharge on the stationary bike or by reading
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even though he thinks of himself as different he seems to like being different it's not mentioned in
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this article but i have seen another article where they mention that his office is filled with
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life-size cardboard cutouts of himself because that's the sign of a well-adjusted yeah because it
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makes him feel more comfortable he enjoys being a provocateur on stage and in interviews he says
01:04:47.380
i'm a jewish racially ambiguous dick dyslexic so i can say anything unlike many executives in
01:04:55.000
silicon valley and this article was written back in june i think so this is pre-election this is in
01:05:00.180
the run-up to it so but so take that into consideration here it says unlike many executives
01:05:04.740
in silicon valley mr carp backed president biden cutting him a big check despite skepticism about
01:05:11.340
his handling of the border and his over-reliance on hollywood elites like jeffrey katzenberg
01:05:15.320
now june remember or july whenever it was or maybe august actually let me just scroll down and make
01:05:21.300
sure august apologies folks now he's supporting president kamala harris but still has vociferous
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complaints about his party when he donates he says he does it in multiples of 18 because it's mystical
01:05:33.200
18 brings good luck in the tradition of kabbalah i gave biden 360 000 dollars born in new york and
01:05:40.860
raised outside philadelphia in a leftist family he has a jewish father who was a pediatrician and a
01:05:45.640
black mother who is an artist they were social activists who took him to civil rights marches and
01:05:50.600
other protests his uncle gerald d james is an economics and african-american studies professor
01:05:56.960
at yale his brother ben is an academic who lives in japan i just think i've always viewed myself as i
01:06:03.240
don't fit in and i can't really try to my parents background just gave me a primordial subconscious
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bias that anything that involves we fit in together does not include me i think the only
01:06:14.040
way i can explain it politically is like if fascism comes i'll be the first or second person on the wall
01:06:19.820
is this painting a picture of the sort of guy you want to have an insane amount of influence on global
01:06:26.460
politics it's like the perfect formula to engineer someone to do harm to society
01:06:31.700
by his own statements he is completely unsituated has no loyalty to any one-time place or people he is
01:06:43.680
an anywhere person and he is in charge of the company that provides a ridiculous amount of digital
01:06:50.260
infrastructure that allows people to steal your information do you think he's going to do this for a
01:06:56.900
good reason he says that he thinks in america and europe the inability or unwillingness to secure
01:07:03.060
borders fuels authoritarianism okay let's hear him out here i see it as pretty simple you have an open
01:07:08.480
border you get the far right he said and once you get them you can't get rid of them we saw it in
01:07:13.880
brexit we see it in le pen in france you see it across europe now you see it in germany so what this
01:07:20.300
is suggesting to me and you'll see that his claim that his ability to well his company's ability to
01:07:26.660
help prevent terrorist attacks is the reason that europe is not even further right as he puts it now
01:07:34.680
you may see this as a good thing he is preventing terrorist attacks so he says obviously preventing
01:07:40.300
innocent civilian deaths is always a good thing however his stated reasons for doing so suggest to
01:07:46.760
me that he's not doing it because he has any concern for the actual well-being of say european peoples
01:07:53.640
he's not doing it because he has respect for our culture our histories or traditions or even
01:07:58.780
disagrees with our demographic replacement he's doing it because if he didn't then you would get
01:08:05.220
hitler too that's his own stated views right here you would get hitler too and that would be even worse
01:08:12.400
so he's not trying to help us he's trying to help manage managerial democracy and help manage
01:08:20.240
our slow demographic replacement that's what i'm getting from this great mr carp sometimes gets
01:08:27.060
emotional in his defense of palantir in june when he received an award named in honor of dwight d
01:08:31.480
dwight eisenhower at dc gala for national security executives he teared up he said that when he lived
01:08:36.920
in germany he often thought about the young men from iowa and kansas who risked their lives
01:08:40.940
to free people like me during world war ii he seems to he's very very obsessed with one aspect of his
01:08:47.240
of his history by the sounds of it of his ancestral history he also said that he was honored to receive
01:08:52.280
an award named after the president who had integrated schools by force yeah one of those people who sad to
01:08:58.060
say you can agree with the the outcome or not uh use a massive overstep of central governmental power
01:09:05.140
and literally sent in the army to force people at gunpoint to integrate their schools he's like
01:09:11.040
this is a good thing which says suggest to me long as the as long as the outcomes are what i'm after
01:09:15.360
tyranny is fine unsurprising from somebody like this let's go into the actual history of the company
01:09:19.960
then uh he's uh the vanguard of what mark milley the retired general and former chairman of the joint
01:09:26.120
chief chiefs of staff has called the most significant fundamental change in the character of war ever
01:09:30.260
recorded in history in his new world unorthodox silly valican silicon valley entrepreneurs like mr carp
01:09:35.540
and elon musk are woven into the fabric of america's national security palantir itself was founded
01:09:41.260
in 2003 by a gang of five including carp and his old stanford law school classmate peter teal now the
01:09:47.960
company's chairman it was backed in part by nearly two million dollars from in q tell the cia's venture
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capital arm literally funded by cia money in the wake of 9-11 the cia bet on palantir gobbling up data
01:10:06.320
and auguring where the next terrorist attacks would come from palantir uses multiple databases to find
01:10:11.880
the bad guy even as mr carp put it if the bad guy actually works for you so again in the wake of 9-11
01:10:17.740
they go we've passed the patriot act now we need companies who can use the patriot act to the fullest
01:10:24.880
extent so the cia starts handing out money to these companies in an attempt to get one that will
01:10:31.040
actually work for them peter teal alex carp i know peter teal alex carp seem like they come from
01:10:36.820
different sides of the political aisle carp went for biden and kamala teal went for donald trump
01:10:41.420
but at the same time there are shared goals even on both sides of the aisle that they all have
01:10:47.480
because it is the uni party and even the power brokers that handle the money behind the uni party
01:10:52.840
also have shared goals and that is to spread american influence across the world being european
01:10:58.580
in an american vassal state i know we've got plenty of your american viewers watching this right now
01:11:03.540
this isn't personal against you i do not want to be ruled by america i do not think that the version
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of america that teal or carp has in their mind is one that harks back to the traditions of america
01:11:15.760
starting from the founding and recognizes it as a place created by europeans it's obviously not good
01:11:21.220
for americans as well it's not good for americans either he sees it as a set of global democratic
01:11:26.860
values that have to be spread what i'm essentially saying is he's a neocon he's a neocon who's going
01:11:33.140
to support any war that will spread what he considers to be american democratic values across
01:11:39.780
the world which always ends up going so well doesn't it upon starting it says it carries on
01:11:46.740
they decided to seek out john poindexter a retired rear admiral who was dubbed the real name
01:11:52.100
real name poindexter a retired rear admiral who was dubbed the godfather of modern surveillance
01:11:57.420
admiral poindexter has been forced to resign as president rodald reagan's national security advisor
01:12:02.140
after the drum roll please iran contra scandal i just realized i went to bang the table sorry yeah
01:12:08.760
after 9 11 he then worked at the pentagon on a surveillance program called total information
01:12:13.500
awareness this is a fantastic pedigree this is such a great pedigree for the company isn't it oh it's
01:12:18.620
absolutely horrifying the company is often credited with helping locate osama bin laden so navy seals
01:12:24.180
could kill him but it's unclear if that's true and carp won't confirm whether it is or not he does crow
01:12:30.140
a little bit about western civilization resting on palantir's shoulders noting that without its
01:12:35.100
software you would have had massive terror attacks in europe already like october 7th style we already
01:12:40.260
had those we already had plenty of those and you didn't help maybe you help ones that we don't know
01:12:45.640
about but we have already had massive terror attacks and i don't see you crying about those i don't see
01:12:50.900
him going like oh the bataclan such a terrible thing to happen the mem bombing arena arena bombing was
01:12:56.780
such a terrible thing to happen but he says if we had had those kinds of attacks like october 7th which
01:13:02.120
is the worst terror attack um he believes it would have propelled the far right to power
01:13:06.780
palantir doesn't also doesn't do business with china russian or any other countries that are america's
01:13:12.260
enemies and palantir got its start in intelligence and defense and has since sprouted across the
01:13:17.180
government through an array of contracts it helps the irs to identify tax fraud and the fda to prevent
01:13:22.180
supply chain disruptions to get drugs to market quicker so every aspect of this company uh seems
01:13:28.840
very suspicious and very shady and uh not in our best interest as far as i'm concerned obviously they
01:13:35.660
like to wrap it up in all of these we're helping you we're saving you from being attacked by terrorists
01:13:40.640
but the main thing that he seems to care about is spreading american democratic values across the
01:13:46.360
world even where they don't fit and also making sure that the goose step as he puts it doesn't
01:13:52.340
return to europe i do not trust this man i do not trust this company i do not think that you should
01:13:57.220
trust this company there's way more involved in all of this but i only have a limited amount of time
01:14:01.920
and so i think i'm gonna end it there that's some good research though oh thank you thank you very much
01:14:06.760
a bunch of comments here um to read yeah yeah yeah are you all right there stelios you didn't say
01:14:12.420
much during that whole no because i wanted to listen to what you were saying any comments now
01:14:18.020
that you've heard it all oh i mean it's i want to do more research but i really distrust when you
01:14:24.500
know companies are trying to tell me that they care about yeah they're like the the prime example of
01:14:31.220
public private partnership also i when they're talking about a lot they're they're spreading
01:14:37.080
alarmism i think that's dangerous yeah uh so that's alarmism just calling everything fascism
01:14:43.900
oh yeah no i i agree it's just as bad as thinking that there is never such a thing like that oh god
01:14:51.480
gandalf a palantir is a dangerous tool saruman saruman why why should we further use it the palantir
01:14:57.860
is then showing footage of lily phillips only fans gross segment continuity uh matt g hammond it's
01:15:04.760
my understanding peter teal founded palantir to stop the worst companies from getting access to
01:15:09.040
this technology whatever issue you have with it know that it would have been worse that's always an
01:15:13.240
excellent smoke screen to say that well of course as i mentioned we've got to tyrannize you because if
01:15:17.960
it wasn't us it'd be somebody else tyrannizing you that's worse that's a blank check for all kinds of
01:15:23.060
tyranny to be done to you so don't let them give you that excuse also it wasn't started by peter teal
01:15:29.260
to stop the worst companies it was started so that the cia could have an extra branch of government to
01:15:34.660
spy on people that's why it started it's like the mafia saying well be grateful we cut off your finger
01:15:39.740
we could have killed you uh it's that that same sort of philosophy of a bully threatens to do something
01:15:46.840
worse potentially and so they can take a little bit more from you and i i appreciate you're trying
01:15:52.400
to uh inject some positivity but i think it's unequivocally bad yeah i mean the positivity is
01:15:58.780
well if if you didn't have this tyranny you'd have a worse one which isn't positive at all in my
01:16:03.500
excuse in my opinion dragon lady chris says after seeing alex carp there will be no more comments
01:16:08.760
about stellios not combing his hair to be fair you've got a worthy challenger there stellios i mean
01:16:15.260
there are worse things i've done on the podcast last time i appeared
01:16:24.660
anyway occupant 42 says one man's utopia is another man's dystopia yeah we're living in a
01:16:32.200
dystopia right now okay video comments without all the girl who slept with a hundred men deal
01:16:40.540
i wonder if the mom is living vicariously through her the mom is past the age of being desired by men
01:16:50.300
so therefore to make herself more interesting kind of like the parents with trans kids and stuff
01:16:57.420
i think it's worth considering and the implication is indeed very disturbing
01:17:03.680
i don't know i don't know how old her mother is i think that the fact her mother's involved at all
01:17:12.280
is very worrying oh hello there was a war between chimpanzees and gorillas in the wild this is the
01:17:21.640
war that the u.s state department doesn't want you to know about yeah who is the cia funding well
01:17:27.140
at least they're funding both sides yeah because that that way they get banana republic
01:18:09.660
one happy dog one very festive dog as well i bet your dog believes in santa claus
01:18:24.360
i know there'll be a special circle of hell reserved for me but i can't help annoying italians about a
01:18:31.820
certain pizza topping tony d's sunday night streams are a little too late for a uk following but he is
01:18:37.280
very good with his audience it's been a mission of mine to get him to admit this albeit out of context
01:18:44.840
i didn't know tony d did uh did live streams i was always wondering where he went that's that's great
01:18:52.480
if it's going well for him i don't have a problem with pineapples on pizza sometimes the hawaiian is good
01:18:57.080
do you just like stand at the at the edge of the western coastline and just like flip off the italians
01:19:03.560
just put an entire un-chopped pineapple i also i don't don't like the italian crust so much i
01:19:10.280
prefer the thick crust for pizza pizzas i'm a thick crust guy too yeah hello lotus eaters this is my
01:19:17.120
first video comment i'm currently trying to cycle the length of new zealand however i'm a couple days
01:19:22.880
from the end and i've come across a ford which is a bit more of a river so while i wait for somebody
01:19:28.820
who can hopefully help me cross it i've got some ginger wine warming on a stove and there's worse
01:19:34.660
places to be stuck like swindon because over here you can see we're very close to where they filmed
01:19:41.060
the orc burn pile that's where he broke his foot in it that's awesome i know you i know him as well i know
01:19:55.300
yeah i like the right we got some comments um jenvy says very nice ty stelios nice sweater josh nice
01:20:05.160
beard harry oh well thank you very much i shaved mid podcast he's very quick at shaving it was a daring
01:20:12.300
idea but i think i pulled it off okay annie moss says josh i love this segment please make sure dan
01:20:18.140
watches it because i think he needs to see this show based on his earlier comments he's not been
01:20:22.980
spreading santa denial has he i won't have that on the lotus eaters podcast i wouldn't be surprised
01:20:27.500
with dan very that's true character captain charlie the beagle says hey santa deniers if santa isn't
01:20:32.640
real then what why when he um when he was eight did my brother get his go-kart taken back by santa on
01:20:40.600
steven's day for being bold um only to get it back after writing a letter of apology to santa
01:20:46.080
checkmate that is true can you answer carl's gallon tub of null noil um santa denier cries out as
01:20:54.180
they're filled with the jolly christmas spirit sounds very threatening um russian garbage human
01:21:00.240
santa gives presents to ukrainian children too foreign agent
01:21:03.800
henry ashman says going through the anti-santa fake news is just an exercise in order
01:21:11.560
um in don't make me tap the magic sign again and everyone knows the christmas names are fifth
01:21:17.820
columnist paid for by upper middle class parents to cover up the fact that their entitled little
01:21:21.900
brat was on the naughty list and got coal that's true also condemnation there it is um it's good to
01:21:29.680
have an expose of the um organized network of gnomes because they're they're growing in power and i for
01:21:35.240
one want to return to tradition and centralize santa's power once more the gnomes v elves war
01:21:41.420
is not spoken about enough i know based ape says if santa isn't real then who was the guy who was
01:21:47.980
sneaking out of my mom's room that one time santa deniers are such idiots that's a good point um i'm
01:21:54.520
sure there are many cases in which um this is a curd based ape and in which case um you're lucky to
01:22:01.320
get that santa sighting and so many times as well um tell your mom i'll see you next year
01:22:06.840
um if santa um okay i'm not reading oh lily phillips is on the naughty list i think boomers
01:22:13.920
would be naughty on purpose just to get coal since kia starmer's not going to keep them warm at night
01:22:17.800
and sophie live to to end the comments for my section i love how you guys always cover the
01:22:24.200
most important news well thank you thank you right so kevin fox says sexual inequality when a woman
01:22:30.560
sleeps with a hundred men she's called a slut when a man does it he's called gay
01:22:46.960
calm rob says i'm with josh i'm so sick of this woman getting airtime for being an absolute degenerate
01:22:56.100
the best solution is to completely ignore them and let them suffer the consequences of their actions
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well i told you what i think that there is a whole industry that being is there's a what
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yeah that just people need to talk about just by not paying attention to it it won't go away
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and it looks like it's expanding yeah and that's also the whole is expanding certainly after this
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yeah and that's also my answer the whole industry is expanding and that's also my answer to the
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legal truth who says that he's disappointed i covered the story right so russian garbage human
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it breaks my heart to see more and more women lose their innocence and carefree love for the world
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it's magical and deserves to be preserved and cherished yet we allow women to be brainwashed
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into feminism femininity is wonderful the engineered collapse of society
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angers me to the very core david ford says stelios doing the maths to prove the
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whore can do that many men in the time allotted was one of the most autistic segments
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lotus eaters has ever done is that a good or a bad thing that's a good thing that's a very good
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thing you're aiding the cause no actually it's important to do the math the homer stelios has
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been giving her the receipts positioning yourself for the position math to get some perspective the
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position of her accountant potentially could be open as well as other things stelios i'm sure
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we've seen some of his dress stelios has got pimp suits somewhere you've got a purple velvet suit
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somewhere right maybe a big feathered hat as well yeah exactly yeah and i have golden chains
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i walk with a stick i'm pretty sure people if you if you live near the mediterranean you're born
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with a golden chain of some kind not me not you not me no no salios had to earn it yes you had to
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the golden chain chose me oh no you had to put a pineapple on a pizza and show it to an italian
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to get your gold chain dr david farugia rst i'm not gonna read the other one i refuse to believe
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that any train in england can be run on time can i can i read the last one that's good i love yes i
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love this charles ellington can i just big appreciation moment for charles ellington right now
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you're my favorite schizo commenter says lily's clavicles are straight male her neck is long
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male massive hands male it's a male i love it yesterday i think it was you put a comment saying
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that everybody in any position of power in hollywood or government is actually secretly trans
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donald trump trans joe biden trans every single one of them i wish i lived in your world charles
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and please they are all trans don't don't stop commenting man i i love it
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we've got a tranny tyranny everyone is trans even you no that means i'm secretly a woman oh my god
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despite the jawline i have to say two things about comment you've just been designed by californian
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gamers the most devious comments are from sophie live she remembers and also i i like tomas vania
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because you're very laconic thank you charles ellington you just give me a great laugh every time
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man so please carry on on my segments uh arizona desert rat harry did excellent research thank you
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very very much now let's just hope that his search doesn't put him at the top of the palantir hit list
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the fun thing about all of this stuff is that it's all publicly available some of this stuff right so
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if i get here uh these two articles including the one that makes him look like an evil genius
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was posted on their own website because they're proud of this they're proud of the headline they're
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uh they're proud of all of the information here most of these companies don't give a shit because
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most people don't actually read into these things they'll see a headline and they'll make their mind
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up and they won't go any further than that uh so it's actually really easy to find this kind of
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information it's putting it all together and uh figuring putting the pieces together uh and on that
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screw tape lasers counters me and says guys don't fall for the palantir we're a powerful evil company
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marketing i have used all of their products the only thing they do is provide software to allow
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non-technical people to work with their organization's data palantir does not collect
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nor analyze data they provide cumbersome tools for low-skilled customers to do so whether or not
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their actual products have cumbersome user interfaces uh the idea that they don't collect or analyze data
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is completely wrong that's literally what they were started to do by the cia and this idea that
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they're presenting themselves as a powerful evil company i don't think that that's what they think
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they're doing they're presenting themselves as an invaluable piece of u.s infrastructure that needs
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to be spread across the globe what they think they're doing is good again alex carp thinks
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everything that he's doing is good because it prevents fascism from returning to europe or even
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making headway in the u.s as well so i don't agree with your take there but thank you for commenting
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anyway omar awad ai can identify patterns through metadata to determine race and seemingly identical
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bone samples another example is targeting pregnancy ads to a woman before she could know herself
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ai could control the public with almost seemingly random butterfly effect triggers and the creators
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wouldn't even know if its goal is going to destroy us yep yeah yeah potentially yeah henry ashman i
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wonder if palantir have gone and updated all of their terrorist finder models now that last year's
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syrian terrorists are now this year's good boy rebels who didn't do nothing i would yeah i wonder
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if they must have had to scramble for that one like oh wait they were being funded by the u.s and
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israel okay i guess they're the good guys now also naming a company after a magical spyware device that
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was used by evil to ensnare a corruptible wizard and drive their opposition leader to burn himself
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alive is an interesting choice yes and it was peter teals peter teal you know that guy who's on side
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he's our guy he's not he's not as the unbreakable litany points out jd vance was mentored by peter teal
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yeah no i know that i i know that i've seen some people uh concerned about that i need to look more
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into jd vance's backstory really before i can come to any more conclusions angel brain harry it's easy
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to explain remember how in half-life 2 overwatch would comment on your position and actions yeah it
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turns out the game was some kind of gypsy witch predicting the world we're about to enter
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basically any piece of media that presumed that the world was going to be terrible
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in about 20 to 50 years time has been proven correct so my takeaway from this is always expect the worst
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and uh let's finish it there lads oh well there's one more comment i want to end of course harry
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stumbles when pronouncing dick slexic made me lose it i did that for you russian
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i didn't notice that maybe give me a little little smirk but anyway thank you very much for
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watching and we'll be back in about half an hour for lads hour we're doing geo guesser again it