Comment on Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft

• uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What’s with some really scary companies (Anduril, Palantir) cribbing their names from LOTR?

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  • derGottesknecht@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Peter Thiel is a Lotr fan

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    • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      maybe a Sauron fan more like

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      • derGottesknecht@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah, totally didn’t understand the morality of the book and thinks sauron is a good role model

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How in the world would a LOTR fan make such life choices?

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      • derGottesknecht@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Because he is an evil bastard. There is a behind the bastards episode about him.

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