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A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Palantir, which has landed multiple massive contracts under the Trump administration, made $1.6 billion in net income last year.

It grew so much last year that it joined the list of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with its stock more than doubling in value in the first half of 2025 alone. In a report to shareholders, the company said it was “crushing” expectations in terms of growth, with revenue growing 93 percent year over year at the end of 2025.

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[–] laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess if you are rich only death is inevitable not taxes

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

And they are working on the death part now.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 111 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am so tired of this shit

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dunno about the other guy but I'm both.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am definitely both, and I'm probably mostly tired because I just got my linux desktop running and have been up too late on it.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One of us One of us One of us

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Its fucken dope (at least can confirm with AMD cards). You'd be surprised how many games you dont even need proton for if you're not gargling AAAs. Linux is totally ready right now.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Right? After I switched a few years back, I was kicking myself for not doing it sooner.

It feels like what using a personal computer was always meant to be like

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Come here brethren, stay awhile

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm a bitch and reverted back to 10 for playing stalker gamma and modding games. I will probably revert back to Mint once gamma is moved away from using wrapper and Nexus releases a Linux mod manager that gets around some of the weird issues. Like how Baldurs gate 3 just doesn't work or how NVSE64 doesn't work for Linux.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Found modding older totles easier on linux

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh absolutely. Also games that had mod managers out the gate worked fine, such as Rimworld. The problem is that I'm not playing Daggerfall or Oblivion all too frequently, hell even New Vegas required a metric fuckton of black magic fuckery and then broke for no reason though that may have been New Vegas being New Vegas. Regardless given how much I mod games and how little support Linux gets from larger mod managers it's probably better for me to deal with Windows 10 and just wait.

Frankly I'm kinda annoyed at having to do this since I actually rather enjoy Mint. I was able to customize that shit more than my Tacoma and that somebitch looks quite a bit different than when I got it, except for the paint.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

new vegas

Is actually my benchmark. Runs better on linux. Getting mods running was slightly easier. Game was moderately less unstable. Was the game i was playing when i switched, so even though it took forever to get working and crashed constantly on linux, id just been through that nightmare on windows, and had close points of comparison.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like I said it may have just been New Vegas being New Vegas. The problem wasn't getting it working, it was it ratfucking itself about 70 hours into my playthrough for no reason.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No operating system stops that, just changes the number. Found frashes to be fewer and milder on linux.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah New Vegas is relatively easy to get going it's keeping it going that's the problem. Regardless I wouldn't say it's a standard for me for what's modable, for reference I've modded everything from Deus Ex to Arcanum to fucken Jedi Academy which in my experience are the real bastards to get working.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 1 points 2 days ago

Unless youre using the original version if the os the mod framework was written for, linux/wine/proton or full emu is better than windows.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have like zero experience with them, but don't games like Fallout have Linux mod managers nowadays?

The only native Linux mod manager I found was Limo, which didn't fucken work for me. Didn't recognize any games besides Dragon Age Origins for some reason and even then it didn't recognize Nexus download links. Also the damned thing felt like some weird hybrid between the old Fallout Mod Manage and the old Nexus Mod manager. Ended up using Steam tinker to run Vortex which was also less than optimal.

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So, universal healthcare would be a waste of taxpayer money but surveillance capitalism is a-OK?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Now you're getting it.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 66 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Thiel is literally in the Epstein files thousands of times. He’s a kid diddler. You couldn’t even write a better comic book villain. Dude belongs in Arkham asylum. He’s going around the world giving speeches that Greta tunberg is the Antichrist

[–] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

🎶I'm Peter Thiel and I know about the antichrist🎶

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 9 points 2 days ago

Also drinking all that boy blood.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Half of these guys look like they're wearing dead skin masks ffs.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

For real. The baby eating doesn’t keep them young

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

We need to bring back the guillotines.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its the only way a living thing has a future.

[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

We need to bring back the balls of using the Guillotines.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So yoyre saying; everything they have is stolen?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, and we should take it back.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or working exactly as it was intended

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

When it's not working, it's working.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 20 points 2 days ago

I guess it ends up pretty cheap overall when you pay to install your own government and fill it with all the people you diddled kids with.

[–] tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

"Yes, Kings!" said the disheartening amount of village idiots.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 13 points 3 days ago

Where are all those people from this past week who have been making Molotov cocktails?

[–] inari@piefed.zip 13 points 3 days ago

Wealth transfer in progress...

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Good deal for them. Bad deal for every system in the US that relies in taxes.

[–] rogsson@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Shitty country letting shitty companies doing shitty things. Shocking!

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