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It’s slowly dawned on me over the last few years that one of the biggest reasons why I find the endless reams of Tolkien/D&D-ripoff fantasy fiction distasteful is because its popularity enables guys like this to smuggle racism into broader discourse. If your entertainment already has you primed to think in a racialized framework, it’s going to take you that much longer to cotton onto what this dingleberry and his buddies are actually pushing.

what do we pay this dang guy for, anyway

It’s somewhat orthogonal to most subjects discussed here, but the eventual WBD bankruptcy auction is going to be a prime source of lols

I think this is the second or third time that either Ed or somebody on his Discord reminded me about Shingy

The 0.000001% chance that this thing morphs into the new global reserve currency is enough for a proper rationalist to keep it trundling along, don’t you think?

Also don’t underestimate the value of having someplace to park useful cronies you don’t currently have any other job for

this guy’s information diet is 90% recycled memes by volume, isn’t it

Something to which they, and people like them, are entitled

Marc the Builder employs many elite code ninjas who are experts at prompting ChatGPT for npm commands

Surely Wikia could have catapulted to the upper echelons of the Fortune 500 if they had just moved faster to gatekeep the facts about gender-swapped Lady Vegeta being a rare card in set 27 of the Dragonball gacha game

In this context, “moat” is a cargo-cult invocation of Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham. Just another square on the hackernews bingo