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This is my favorite post of all time from you

I had noticed this correlation and I find it rather disturbing. I'd have expected more references to Ayn Rand.

Since I live in NZ, I can promise you we will be sealing that dome very tightly. Air-tight, one might say.

You've got quite a way with words. You should write books or something.

Anduril, anyone?

There are zero billionaire survival bunkers in Aotearoa New Zealand. No domes, no abandoned missile silos .. He packed up and thankfully fucked off to Malta after the NIMBY's stopped him from building a private resort. Y'all are confusing us with Hawai'i, which is where they all are are

Peter Thiel’s Exit from New Zealand: A Decade of Investments, Controversy, and Unmet ExpectationsAmerican billionaire and tech investor Peter Thiel is formally severing his business ties with New Zealand, marking the end of a controversial decade of investments, government partnerships, and publi...b2bnews.co.nz

He definitely wants staff fitted with shock collars in said dome.

Guess I’m not naming my startup “Bilbo’s Ass.”

Some tech elites don’t want accountability — they want ancient legitimacy. That’s why surveillance and weapons firms like Palantir and Anduril borrow Tolkien names. Myth makes power feel magical instead of Orwellian.

Tom Bombadil they're not

"chittering skinwalker" 🤣

Well said.

Was Nazgûl taken?

Today's lesson: Author level shade

So we now call Musk Doge lads Orcs? I’m in.

The global mob tied to Semion Mogilevich have some derivation of Alpha in their name. Similar broken people.

They're all the Nazgul....

my Wikipedia handle has been “Narsil” since 2003 but it looks worse and worse every day

And one of these stains on the legacy of Tolkien has been giving some quasi religious talks on the apocalypse and the Antichrist, which he seems to be obsessed with. There is something very wrong with these "chittering skin walkers".

youtu.be/pBbDxDOV6J4?... this one is recent and felt almost overly on the nose

Every tech startup named after Lord of the Rings (for some reason)YouTube video by Generic Entertainmentyoutu.be

*taps sign*

bsky.app/profile/itmu...

Amazing prose!

Anduril kinda works in a racist way but the rest are just dumb af. Palantir? Creepy spying machine that, er... destroys anyone who uses it Erebor? Pile of stolen loot guarded by a dragon that, er... is killed and loses it all Sauron? All-seeing-eye that, er... famously didn't see shit and died 🤦‍♂️

It truly makes one wonder if they ever read any part of the books.

Anduril, I get the appeal - but Palantir is explicitly, in the text, a scam that rips off your info and feeds it to the nefarious villain who can then control what you think and do. That's the *sales* pitch?!? Like a company that delivers gifts for Mothers Day being named 'Pandoras Box.'

When the proverbial goes down, and the CEO leaves for New Zealand for the last time, please be a good patriot and make sure the fuel tanks on their transport are only half-full - asking on behalf of most embarrassed New Zealanders.

Nikola Tesla must also be pissed his name is attached to a car running on DC, his arch rival's pet. And Heinlein must be confused on why Grok was attached to an AI, when it nothing remotely it. At least he didn't use Mycroft Holmes.

I am working on a plan to bury all oligarchs bunkers and domes post-apocalypse. I doubt anyone will put up much resistance. Just FYI.

When I was in middle school, a friend and I fantasized how we would split NZ and each take an island and live there in James Bond styling. Here I am in 2025 and thinking these guys stole our notes and actually thought they could do it. Seems there's never an original idea.

While NZers suffer.......

We need to convince them all to LARP with live blades.

New Zealand, of course, because you do not simply walk there.

"chittering skinwalker fingering his own taint" 👏👏👏👏👏

Yeah, what the heck/fudge is up with that?!

No punches pulled here.

Doesn’t Tolkien Enterprises own these names?

It's very strange and anti-everything Tolkien was about.

The way Tolkien would hate all of these people and their ventures.

At least they’re not hiding it with this latest one.

Would someone provide a link for context of this thread please?

"a chittering skinwalker fingering his own taint" thats the stuff.

a cartoon character from the emperor 's new groove is giving the ok sign .Alt: a cartoon character from the emperor 's new groove is giving the ok sign .media.tenor.com

“a chittering skinwalker fingering his own taint” is now my newest favourite insulting description. Wank monkey sitting in its own filth I’ll miss you.

But so far has not been given the go-ahead from local council for huge resort in Queenstown.

I thought he went with Sauron because he was a fan of eldar abuse.

those NZ domes might not be as safe as they imagine. we're over billionaires here, too.

On the bright side, I live just across the ditch from NZ, & I can assure you that if things turn to shit, many of us will rock up to the bunkers with a cement-mixer & ensure that these scumbags never emerge.

It’s absolutely crazy how many of these tech dweeb edge lords claim to loooove Tolkien and miss the entire fucking point of the stories.

RIGHT?!?!?!

That is a fantastic burn.

When they retreat to their bunkers seal their asses in. lol

The professor would have despised every last one of them, too.

And as a huge Tolkien fan who isn't a POS, this makes me extremely angry.

Minas Morgul LLC is a people company, no idea why everyone thinks we're evil

At first I thought the “Sauron” name inapt, until I realized he is essentially selling a product that exploits the terror of people in whom he has instilled fear—thus causing them to be the agents of their own demise. So yeah, totally appropriate.

Joe Hill makes such excellent fun of this in King Sorrow.

And it's almost always a bad item. Stupid wannabe edge lord vibes

Angband has a nice ring to it

What's the name of this new book?

I’m hoping that when they get here they’re greeted with torches and pitchforks.

Sounds like you've been spending a lot of time around Charlie Stross.

Well THAT was an epic burn……went straight for the kill. Awesome…..

Hmmm. In hindsight, I guess I might have workshopped my brand a bit better. 😔 ____________________________________________________________ P. Janus Reed Gríma Consulting Group "We whisper, you wither"

When reached for comment, Sauron the Deceiver reportedly said: “Wait a minute! You mean I could have just told everybody what I wanted to do and they’d have not only let me… they’d have paid me for it?”

I remember the meme that begins “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged." I'm starting to think that reading BOTH is even worse than just reading Atlas Shrugged.

We don't need no stinking dome here in NZ unless we get to lock the door.