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		hhshhhhjjjd on April 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab Well, as someone living in the United States, I live with the saddening understanding that our military spending indicates that we're willing to immiserate large swaths of the world's population for increasingly diminishing returns. It's authoritarian enough that I have no choice but to support our military decisions through the taxes I pay.

fooker on April 22, 2024 [–]

It's colonialism without the responsibility of administering large populations.

I don't know if there's a solution though, there are other sharks vying to do far worse.

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