John Carmack had some choice words when he left Meta.

"We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort. There is no way to sugar coat this; I think our organization is operating at half the effectiveness that would make me happy.

“It has been a struggle for me. I have a voice at the highest levels here, so it feels like I should be able to move things, but I’m evidently not persuasive enough. A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after a year or two passes and evidence piles up, but I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage, or set a direction and have a team actually stick to it. I think my influence at the margins has been positive, but it has never been a prime mover.”

Imagine getting John Carmack on your project and ignoring him. Like, what was the point? Zuck got lucky in the beginning and was cut throat enough to hold on to it, but he has no entrepreneurial talent.

Brain damage turns people right wing. Never left wing. Gary Busey, Kevin Sorbo, RFK…

Sometimes they don’t shift, but they never shift left. Almost as if empathy is a brain function and without it, you turn into a prick.

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“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”

― Karl Marx

Oh no, they told a Friend Group B joke around Friend Group A.

A lot of modern problems can actually be blamed on Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays.

an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as “the father of public relations”. While credited with advancing the profession of public relations, his techniques have been criticized for manipulating public opinion, often in ways that undermined individual autonomy and democratic values.

They should just become a contributor to Heroic.

Work will set you free.

You think ICE cares? You think ICE even understands that?

Yeah, but New Yorkers believe they invented Pizza. Not joking, some very seriously believe that.

No kidding.

Vanity Fair, By Marie Brenner, September 1, 1990, https://archive.is/OQYan

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

You could and they would suck off road.

The inconsistent part was when there was a whole subplot about Dobby wanting freedom and the reader sympathizing with that character. Then later, JK writing that Dobby was a weirdo for wanting that.

Shaun’s comment that JK keeps threatening to make the story interesting was such a good stinger.

You don’t get “charged” for hate on Social Media.

Are you talking about them someone famous says something bigoted and that gets shared around?

Or are you talking about when someone commits a crime in their legal system and that crime is motivated by bigotry?

https://friendster.com/

Hmm. A person disinterested in human beings?

Throwing his 2007 blog post titled Fossils are Bullshit on the pile.

I think he’s at least not Uncool. Like the True Neutral of comic creators.

oh no. So anyway

Or They Live.