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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • “from 2014 to 2020, Israeli organizations, including military companies and institutions, were involved 2105 times and received 1,28 billion Euros from the EU.”

    I don’t know man, funding the military companies of an apartheid regime doing slo-mo ethnic cleansing in the West Bank counts in my view.

    The article then goes on to cite recent rulings that hamper access to information about the results of publicly funded projects and then just connects the dots, saying that on the one hand we’ve been funding the Innovation infrastructure of the regime and on the other we’ve been keeping information about what happens with the funds away from public scrutiny. So when the regime goes full genocidal, this is a potent mix for our taxes being used for crimes without any accountability.






  • The most benevolent reading of his idea here is that the rich are shallow and are content with the base material satisfactions afforded them by wealth, as opposed to using their wealth for some kind of greatness.

    That’s it. That’s the whole idea.

    So this is the wise sage of the dark enlightenment? This is the intellectual colossus shaping the thinking of the new tech elite?

    There is nothing there. Any random village priest (or small town pastor for you yanks) has more intellectual depth in their Sunday sermon than this.