He posted an update:

At this point, I’m half convinced he’s a masterful troll.

He’s from Norway, so being a troll feels on brand.

France should ask for that back. We’ve done her a gross disservice.

By design. This isn’t a surprise to the Republicans. This was intentional. How else are they going to keep their workforce under educated and pliable for the wealthy class to exploit without them having a shot at escaping?

Mac osx has unix command prompts built in and the ability to containerize out of the gate. Windows requires WSL and a bunch of other shit to achieve a substantially worse effect.

Right, like I think people forget that we did this to a native American holy site/cliff. Intentionally. Because we really are the fucking worst.

Thank you for saying that

THC butter exists, but you won’t escape the weed taste.

Chocolate and gelatin with a bunch of sugar is the only real way to cut that taste.

What universe are you from, really? You’re not fooling anyone with that act.

Yes, but what about second bullet?

oh god, is that what’s happening right now?

Tolkien lived through WW2.

Which he used as inspiration for how the nations would react to a great catastrophe.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/business/andy-byron-astronomer-ceo-resigns

Did you mean to say they didn’t need the US?

Yup, exactly. That’s why his stories are generally pretty weak. He doesn’t think about the outline or the ending at all.

He’s said on multiple occasions that he mostly just has an idea for a story, writes some characters, and in the process of developing the characters, he develops the story.

So the story is a tertiary device in his writing, the characters are the primary.

Which is why it works well when adapted for use with actors on the screen. You connect with them more easily, and the story isn’t generally as important in the beginning as a good cast and dialog.

See: The Stand.

The thing is you’re kinda right. He writes shitty stories, but great characters. He’s all about letting the characters evolve and explore the story to create the story.

The actual story? Not well thought out and riddled with inaccuracies.

This is why his books translate so well to the big and small screen.

A ‘Final Solution’.

It absolutely won’t be.

But it might be moving in the right direction.

Regardless, will take decades/generations to fully recover from this, if ever.

I suspect they’re willing to take the risk to try and warn others. This is sort of a middle ground approach. They’re banking on Trump not being able to retaliate in time before they leave the country, he’s moving fast, but he’s not at the imprison political opponents stage yet. He will be soon, but they’ve got some time.

In the meantime, it serves as a warning to us and others to get out if you can.