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1oooqooq on Aug 15, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Palantir’s accelerated security clearance plan for...

> Over the last five years more of my students have understood that Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine and strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China mean that the world is no longer a stable and safe place. This has convinced many of them to work on national security problems in defense startups.

oh so that is why there's always that crap on the news?

Man I miss when they lured smart kids with the false promises of moon rockets

0x1ch on Aug 15, 2024 [–]

I don't know a single graduate that joined a defense contractor to help Ukraine lol. Maybe their bank accounts perhaps, but that isn't a false promise.

1oooqooq on Aug 15, 2024 | [–]

I was being facetious for humor, on the fact that now several senate hearings are public in which NASA budget was justified as such recruiting.

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