An unfortunate and unintended consequence of counterattacking the invader. Very different from bombing a school due to bad intelligence in an unprovoked attack.
Ukraine has been attacking civilian infrastructure in Donetsk city since 2014. Even with the Soviet butterfly bombs you might remember from Afghanistan.
A more likely explanation is that butterfly mines were dropped by Russian armed forces; see Human Rights Watch:
Russian forces have used at least seven types of antipersonnel mines in at least four regions of Ukraine: Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Sumy.
There is no credible information that Ukrainian government forces have used antipersonnel mines in violation of the Mine Ban Treaty since 2014 and into 2022.
Of course this is all tradition to bring rebellious minorities back into Russkiy Mir, just look at how Grozny looked in 2000. That was Putin's first war, started when he was prime minister.
> completely ignorant about what palantir is and who it's owned by
Perhaps you could give your take? When I look at the facts, I see a fairly humdrum data integration company that was a slightly early adopter of applied machine learning.
Or, the non politicized take is that they think the software could improve the data landscape of the NHS, which, if we are bring honest, has a lot of room for improvement.
I am an American so the plight of the NHS has no direct impact on me, but I'd argue that Palantir is a fundamentally political company and thus there is no room for non-politicized takes.
Have you used Palantir or know the infra on how it provides services? Or just giving sound bites you’ve read on media?
You can mandate an installation on self managed infra. We install / use it on a completely self managed cloud install with pretty solid exfiltration protections. It’s a data platform, provides interesting connections in the data. But that’s where its utility ends.
Do they work with US defense and govt? Sure they do. But you don’t have to share your data outside of your cloud infra.
What I am talking about has nothing to do with their technology. To know Palantir is an inherently political company you just need to hear Alex Karp speak.
There have been recent articles in the FT about a man (who surname, funnily enough, sounds like swindle) who was an advisor to Palantir while also being chair of 4 NHS Trusts and pushing the trusts to put more of their data into Palantir.
Exactly because no one in his right mind is going to work in "state". So the "state" is more like 95% "fucking idiots" as you put it, and that is self-reinforcing.
When has infantilizing adults resulted in positive outcomes? What if the group of idiots decide you're the idiot and start making decisions for your own good?
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