So, regularatory capture is now announced to fanfare?
Fuck me. If our treasonous legislature hadn't been cutting funding for decades, there would be no problem to solve. This is a bullshit "solution" to an engineered problem.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2026
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I don't get what they will sctually be doing. It's all hype speak and that's a lot of money for mumbo jumbo.
The food supply is one of the main levers that the working class has to put pressure on the ruling class. "Securing" the food supply means taking away the possibility for farmers to protest.
Farm security is national security. Through this partnership, Palantir is empowering USDA with core capabilities that will enable it to secure American farmland, enhance supply chain resilience, and shield agricultural programs from fraud, abuse, and foreign adversary influence. In doing so, USDA will gain critical visibility into risks that can affect America’s agricultural production and food supply.
I'm curious about what this'll look like in practice.
Because it sounds like the US federal government is about to make total surveillance a prerequisite for subsidies.
I'm confident you're correct. Also, as always, the surveillance isn't for the reason they state; it's just an excuse. They want to monitor all the people. They'll be able to track when and where everyone goes in rural areas. Urban areas are mostly covered by Flock.
"safeguard"
Don't worry, they'll let us eat cake
I'm GLAD that we're able to give HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of Dollars to this Company that paid $0 in Taxes while helping ICE Murder us!
Sigh. We're gonna go from third in the world in food safety to like 80th. Speed run.
Rice is a major staple food in our house. We've always avoided rice from the US as several studies have shown higher heavy metal levels in most American grown rice.
https://www.pulmonologyadvisor.com/news/toxic-metals-found-in-all-rice-samples-in-new-report/
What an amazing grift.
There is a reason their stock was like 600x price:earnings, now it's "only" 242x. Tech stocks are aggressive at 30-80x.
When the fix is in, the fix is in.
Robot killing machines coming to a farm near you.
Fuck this country
FUCK!!
For some reason fertilizer is very expensive, and for some reason crop yields might be worse than ever this year... I wonder if those totally unavoidable things (which probably didn't involve a waste of our tax dollars) factor into this decision (to use more tax dollars)