Time to start some kind of resistance group called “Bombadil”.
who’s Adil?
My friend’s brother, but please leave him alone.
I’d respect these tech assholes more if they named their company “Matrix”, “Panem”, or “Big Brother”. At least then they’re not insulting anyone’s intelligence.
Honestly surprised there’s no “Evil Corp” yet.
“Skeletor LLC”
“Mordor Holdings Inc”
“Triffid Intl”
You’re right, too honest. We all get to suffer so these rich pricks can pretend to live out some hero fantasy.
Doofenschmirz Evil Incorporated 🎵
…I feel like I would invest in that one.
There’s actually more than one “Redline Realty” in this country, surprisingly enough.
Palantir is on point though: Using that distorted tool warps you to evil and self destruction…
Likewise there’s irony in SpaceX naming theirs after Culture ships. They should have stolen Weilan/Yutani ship IDs instead.
Time to found some local activist groups with names like “Old Toby” and “Bombadillo”.
bombadildo
edit wait. you want to start a sex shop
Porque no los dos?
Looked up Lembas. Oh god.
my holiday lemmas is coming up next weekend. you celebrate by baking bread for, or ideally with, friends. then you eat it with friends. we’re not mad at tolkein. we big mad at lembas.
I’m not mad at Tolkien. I’m mad that there’s a food replacement company with an AI Gandalf promoting it.
I saw that and it went from “this is dogshit but just tone deaf” to "they are just pissing on Tolkiens grave at this point
i’d respect one of these companies if they named themselves Frodork or something
Dildo Schwaggins
Leggo Milass
Thinking Thunberg is the antichrist while overlooking the spray-tanned obvious.
A lot of techbros like to have “alternative interpretations” on said works. They don’t see them as technology/power bad stories, but as issues of bad alignment.
To be fair that’s me and Jurassic Park. It’s not about man’s hubris, it’s about one cheap-ass motherfucker. Lions aren’t constantly escaping from zoos.
“Yes the torment nexus didn’t work out in the classic scifi novel “Don’t build the torment nexus” but that was just because the people who built it where incompetent. Look, i am different, see I have billions of dollars I am definitely competent enough to make the torment nexus work.”
The other usually is “The Foundation in the classic sci-fi novel «Don’t Build The Torment Nexus» did not see the importance of a «humanity first» approach, and cut corners for profit”, then they immediately cut corners for profit.
Wait till they name one of their evil companies/products second breakfast.
wait i wanted to name my evil restaurant Second Breakfast
it’s evil because all of our eggs are deviled
Doesn’t the Tolkien estate tell them to stop?
Can you even trademark a made-up name if you’re not the creator?
I think made up names are the easiest to trademark. No pre existing art by definition.
Except for Tolkien book.
see: Tolkein Estate v. WoTC
i’m sure that lawsuit exists over the word hobbit
I guess they read the silmarillion, but understood not the words they read.
well then in response i propose “yeah sorry i’m just not that into pokemans” as a thought-stopping phrase
They all do this. San francisco used to be the old hyperliterate drug fueled counterculture mecca. So they still identify with that, and there’s still like vestigial aesthetic shreds of the old city’s corpse hanging off their beloved Moloch (howl-written in San Francisco). So they see literary allusions and implying they’ve read books as cool. Especially the ones who came up in the 80s and 90s when the old literate hippies could still afford to live there.
But none of them have read more than one book, because one is enough to reference, right? and they didn’t understand it. So mike zuckerberg read ‘snow crash’ and is just doing all the evil shit from ‘snow crash’. Thiel read LOTR. Whoever keeps giving money to ‘ai children’s toy’ read ‘diamond age’.
Because they see is=aught and can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality on an emotional level, being shit heads who fundamentally disrespect the very concept of humanities and have no interiority.
So mike zuckerberg read ‘snow crash’
Fucking Mike
AI children’s toy
I’d have gone with The Veldt but ok
Stephenson is pretty popular there. The shitheaded casually racist voerhoevenesque pithiness makes them feel smart and cool.
These people have an overwhelming predisposition to take a shit on everything. They encountered a thing. They took a shit on it.
Well yeah, they need to be the “alphas” and mark everything they like, especially cultural touchstones, as theirs.
Otherwise, those things would be ours , and that’s Communism! (“Haven’t you read Animal Farm?!” They’ll screech, as they use 1984 as a roadmap.)
They can’t imagine coexistence without zero-sum Thunderdome-esque competition over who gets to take and hold everything away from everyone else.
Yep. Musk read a Culture book, probably Excession. Definitely not Surface Detail. He would have been offended.
No, it was ‘the player of games’ and he thought the main character was just the coolest guy omg you have no idea.
i could have sworn it was ender’s game.
Musk once went to a gala where someone told musk about a cool book series with funny ai ships. He then skimmed the wiki page and assumes he understands the book better than anyone else.
They must think LOTR is an instruction manual in how to become an evil overlord or something
Nah, they just tell themselves everyone who’s against them is an orc.
You know that Thiel explicitly sides with Sauron, as he himself has said in interviews? How would orcs be against him?
“Yeah but…I’d be a good Sauron.”
“That sounds like where Boromir went wrong…”
“Haha ‘Boromir’ huh? What’s their stock ticker? Maybe I can acquire them too…”
Nah, he straight up said that in Mordor shit worked, while outside it was all “wishy-washy and environmental” (direct quote). Too bad I haven’t saved the link.
Of course, ‘environmental’ is an insult for someone like that bastard.
???
That’s… honestly less surprising than I would have expected.
There’s a weird obsession among the far right lunatics with LOTR and just completely missing the message. Vance is in that crew too
They’ll miss the message of literally anything if it isn’t explicitly right wing.
It must be intentional, at least for some of them, some of the time.
I’ve noticed the same in recent years with Star Trek and the far right as well.
I don’t know how they can possibly miss that the Federation is functionally a post-scarcity socialist utopia.
On the other hand… the Ferengi are essentially a direct replica of the modern US, including the far right’s clear motive to try and force women back to subservience. I’m sure they’d love to be able to force them to be naked all the time while they’re at it.
It’s obvious many of the species in the ST universe were extreme caricatures of specific regions/countries from real life, and the Ferengi were based on the US… But I don’t think they expected the caricature to so directly become the reality.
I don’t know how they can possibly miss that the Federation is functionally a post-scarcity socialist utopia.
Because there’s been a decades long effort to make American education really bad. There’s very little ability for critical thinking in that group of people.
no we doesn’t
Well… can’t really argue with that.
“NeW tReK iS wOkE”
My guy, have you just been not paying attention for the last 60+ years? Star Trek has always been progressive.
Inb4 black and white cookie people episode.
dammit! beat me by three hours!
i wonder if the NuDiscoTrek time jump stuff was explicitly for the far right trekkers (yeah that’s right i said it with the hard R). First off, the writers shoved as much identity politics stuff in there because they didn’t want to do it. second off it was not the best trek we’ve had in a while, even though the actors tried. AND THEN THERE’S THE THIRD THING. i don’t know how we dealt with the third thing. fouthly one of trek’s main exports is corn. fifthly it might be why they got rid of all of the stuff that made trek trek like the postscarcity and the hair. lastly, and in conclusion, NuDiscoTrek is a land of contrast.
you can add warhammer 40k to it too.
personally i would say its a sense of a belonging and purpose in a group for a unambigious cause that most people crave. but its just that most time the cause is skewed pretty bad by the people of power.
Well somebody needs to be the villain.
(as in: yes, that might also be the point. There are villains.)
i used to live someplace where the village sobriquet ended in villain (as in Bostonville and the citizens were called Bostonvillains, although it was not as awkward because it was not a made up place like Bostonville) and i have to admit it’s pretty fun
To be fair, can anyone understand The Silmarillion? The way it is written is hard even when you are literate.
it’s better in the original Eldarin
You go in expecting a book, but instead it’s just the Wikipedia page for Middle Earth
i used to study religion and it feels a lot like the begat section of the bible. i think that’s on purpose.
like, some of the best stories are hidden in there, like the israelites eating so much divinely summoned magic ground bread that they got so sick of it that they complained to their god for divinely summoned meat. and back then their god was not sick to their heart of humans yet so they gave the israelites meat. they gave the israelites so much meat they ate so much they vomited it so violently it came out they noses, according to the bible. no i did not make that imagery up myself. i had the Great Gay King James’s Interpreters’ help. yeah that’s why they stopped using KJV. it was too gay.
There is a reason that Tolkein did not publish the Silmarillion. It’s not a book. It is his own musings on the origins and backstory of the universe he created. It was likely used simply as an exercise to develop his work with no intention of it ever actually being a published work in its own right.
This is a very apt description of it. I remember the creation of Arda, but beyond that, it’s all a bit fuzzy, like I read the Wikipedia page half asleep and dreamed the rest.
You sure you didn’t read the creation of Arda and then fall asleep fully? I did, It’s the worst chapters of the Silmarillion that filters 90% of the readers, the reason I reccomend all readers start with the coming of the Elves.
when reading The Silmarillion, it’s important to remember that Finrod, the brother of Galadriel, is different from Fingon. Fingon is Finrod’s cousin, and also the brother of Turgon. Fingon and Turgon’s father is Fingolfin, who is the brother of Finarfin, who is Finrod’s father. you’ll have a hard time following the story if you don’t keep all those straight
In case anyone needs a reminder about Men:
They probably saw The Oath as just badass, and the First Kinslaying as a “gotta break a few eggs to make an omlette” inspiration
I can think of a lot of books like that
Anduril keeps trying to recruit me. I don’t know how to send them a strong enough message that conveys just how hard they need to fuck off.
Apply, never show up.
That would require having a conversation with these ghouls
No online application? Sad
Online applications go nowhere, you gotta talk directly with the recruiter.
I drive past an Anduril building on my commute. I’ve always assumed they are a defence contractor but I’ve never bothered to look.
Same here. You’d think with all that AI they should be able to get by without us.
how do poop pranks sound? the coffee hasn’t hit my brain yet obviously, that still sounds good. or i erred on the side of hippie with the speedball, because that still sounds funny over here.
How do I send poop thru email
Who said email
They’ve been emailing me
My favorite words in the language include disproportionate response
Send word to the elves! the time has come. The sword of your forefathers must be reforged! You have my bow. Err the break of dawn, we ride!
Consult US Army TM 31-210
oh those watchlists aren’t so bad, they just give you the extra attention every time you fly. or go to a courthouse. not just the federal ones, the state ones too. like, being on the “we know this guy and he’s cool” list at the local courthouse doesn’t help, when i showed up on the federal shitlist merely because i was disabled and had to fly every 8 weeks for treatment (and this one TSA dude at the airport at one destination was jealous as fuck of my facial hair. i know exactly who, he was an absolute shitass [he’s such a poopbutt. i bet he shits out his own ass]. this happened right after 9/11, very long story), i got my shit tossed every single day at the local state superior. they didn’t want to do it, i didn’t have much choice about carrying my shit, but anyways, there’s ways of dealing with being on the list, senpai👉👈
All my years of giving 89% are paying off. The only companies trying to recruit me are named unimaginative double entendres
You mean like bobs burgers next door neighbor?
Not nearly as clever
Oh they hit me up a couple of weeks ago. So far no follow-ups, but we’ll see…
They sent me two a week for a month six months ago, and they’ll probably keep trying for another couple weeks this time around as well.
Shit, they did the same thing six months before that, too. It was only a few pings every year before then.
What the fuck. That’s some serious persistence.
Yeah, looks like they’ve been trying to contact me for over four years now. I probably should instruct them to go fuck themselves at this point, I guess.
Nah, let them keep coming. every once in a while you might need an ego boost, and the fact that this one place has been trying to hire you for [x] years might help.
usual unhinged undercaffeinated rant incoming
there’s a radiation oncology clinic in Florida that has been trying to hire me for, uh, maybe ten years now? keeps calling me doctor [me]. so the thing is i’m a musician. i’ve been radioactive and had to be kept away from the public and family and they made me pee and shit into a special bin so it wouldn’t enter the water supply, uh, twice now though. i’m not sure how that turns into “you, dear sir, madam, or gentlecrytipd (please pick the last one i love cryptids) are a radiation oncologist” but i’ll take it unless it impacts the prices ticketmaster makes me pay. good for the ego though
Well, you’ve convinced me, and that rant was the best thing I’ve read this morning.
Tolkien supported the fascists in the Spanish civil war. He was also a member of the Catholic church so he probably supported the Catholic missions of the Spanish empire, which were basically concentration camps.
He had his own crazy beliefs. We can’t know how he would react to this.
FFS we need to stop idolizing media personalities anyone like this.
Catholic missions of the Spanish empire, which were basically concentration camps.
If you compare the population of Latin America and North America, doesn’t Latin America look like the natives were less exterminated?
Really depends on what area. There are parts of Mexico where the native population was completely decimated, like the more northern parts, like Nuevo León. Many of the depopulations of native Indians in the southern parts of the modern area of USA also happened when they were part of the Spanish Empire, like the Guale, Timucua and Apalachee of Florida, or the people of New Mexico, and the various people of California.
So mostly the Spanish killed and not the other Europeans?
No, other Europeans killed indian natives as well. I’d say USA has been the worst of the colonial powers in their treatment of the natives with Spain coming second.
Next thing you know San Francisco will be renamed Orthanc and DC, Mordor.
We will avenge you Mr. Tolkien.
Jokes on them, heaven has royalties. Some mfers abt to get their blessings repod
