Isn’t that a mangled L Ron Hubbard quote?

Pay no attention to the man behind that curtain. The rate of men behind curtains is actually quite low. Do not doubt the great and powerful Oz.

It’s actually kind of an achievement that in the ultra-saturated Isakai genre they’ve managed to set a new standard in repulsive premises.

many people I know who got more from HPMOR read it carefully, perhaps stopping after every chapter to think about the goals and motivations of each character and predict what happens next

Ok, I tried giving it a fair shake, and I guess it’s got the same problem as every other forum roleplay: it’s fun to roleplay, not fun to read someone else’s roleplay.

Techbro was originally used to describe the type of men who made it difficult for women in tech, then somewhere along the line the general public realized the same dudes were also making it difficult for lots if people in lots of places.

If tech folks never actually acted like frat bros, the bro appellation never would have happened. I’ve worked in offices with Kegs cor crissakes.

Sort of an aside, but let’s soap box about why the Lab Leak theory is a thing:

What I don’t get about lableak enthusiasts is why they insist that it’s not just a lab leak, but also a lab leak of an other than natural virus. Hell, if you wanted to try and fit the facts but still explain the spooky coincidence, envision a just-so scenario where someone caught (proto) covid while collecting samples in a cave, went back to work at the lab, infected everyone while buying groceries at the market.

Nobody makes up a story like that! It’s always a credibility-straining cover-up paired with claims about an engineered virus that don’t fit the facts. That makes me think they don’t care about the facts at all, and instead just really want to be able to blame something-anything-besides their own countrys’ ineffectual responses to the virus for the death and mayhem.

Lab leak is a slight of hand, but don’t be fooled; how patient zero happened isn’t relevant for the purposes of evaluating how a certain very popular right wing someone managed to fall down flat the one time he was actually called upon to act as a leader.

This is Sam “WorldCoin” Altman we’re talking about, I’m sure he assumes they can mine crypto with it.

Fails to list SlateScott as a controversial guest.

Also, did he just use a bang path to refer to a racist dude’s Twitter persona? Seeing old school lore adopted by these mutants gives me heartburn.

Oh, and that bit at the end disclaiming it as an EA event despite it clearly being an EA event is classic “decoupler” (or, if you like, responsibility avoider.)

Why Do I Hate Pronouns More Than Genocide?

I had to google this but it’s real.