My first reaction is that they really are pushing the One Piece allegory farther. Soon a gifted cohort of troublesome Gen-Z-er’s will brag and compare their bounties with each other; smiling wider all the same.

Exodus 2, you say?

Damn, beat me to it. Take this upvote.

Swears are MMORPG buffing spells. Let them all rip simultaneously for burst and maximize jar DPS.

Wait so Palantir the company technically named itself after the Tolkien “torment nexus”?

conceived of the idea of coauthoring a paper for the express purpose of enabling this joke. They followed through on it five years later

The sheer determination and commitment for telling a dick joke. And here I am not being able to tell you if I’ll be employed a year later.

I didn’t notice the “before” and “after” especially since they don’t have different poses.

A Tenth of Myself in my ass

At least it survived the oversimplified logo epidemic.

Wait, can you eli5 why multifactor authentication (MFA) (and maybe also 2-factor authentication apps) is “fuck off” levels?

Is it privacy concerns or something bigger like more points of failure for overall security? Or smaller like not every one has/wants a smart phone?