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    The icon for Palantir is even designed to look like a seeing stone on a pedestal.

    Since Tolkien coined the term his estate should sue. It’s tarnishing LotR.

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      a seeing stone, allowing one to gaze at basically anything at anytime.

      however you’ll never know who is watching with you and how they might influence you.

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        Yeah, you might use it to spy on your enemies to great advantage, but your mind is basically wide open for the Dark Lord’s data harvesting.

        You know, the name is perfect! Why it has any customers at all is the mystery that shames the concept of human intelligence.

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    I hate how many terrible military industrial complex companies are out there trying to ruin Lord of the rings names.

    Palantir, Anduril

    Then there’s valar ventures (a Thiel private equity firm), mithril capital and mythril capital

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      The way this BS pretends to speak my language by giving itself nerdy names adds insult to injury, really.

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      As far as I know those are all this asshole’s ideas too. He’s got some hedge fund called Lembas or something too, among others.

      I’m surprised he hasn’t just renamed himself Sauron at this point. (While talking ahout saving the world through his wealth and power, of course.)

      Typical villain arc: Some self-absorbed billionaire with a main character complex decides they like a cultural touchstone, completely misses the point ot it, and ruins it for everyone else for their own profit.