Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI

• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is corruption, but there’s nothing usual about it.

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Were it 90% of what Pentagon did, the rest of the world bar China and India would be US territories.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Being corrupt does not get you territories. I just makes you waste money on never ending conflicts so that private contractors can get richer.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Being 90% corrupt gives you more territories than being 99% corrupt

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      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh, ok, you’re saying they are more corrupt, not less. Didn’t get it.

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