jonhendry

Supposedly the head of baseball legend Ted Williams was frozen, but was dropped and cracked at some point. Don't know if that was the same company.

I think it's not so much his Malaysian-ness, but more of a "you don't even go to this school" thing. I don't think he has ever been to the US, but he certainly doesn't seem to mention that he's in Malaysia, ever, and posts old pictures of the US and says "things were better back then".

Supposedly he started out online posting Nazi-type stuff (https://i.imgur.com/zYHeFOP.jpeg not sure if legit) then went to a kind of anti-gamer gate wokeish persona, then went right wing again. In that jpeg there are some (alleged) statements by him about being Chinese but not Asian because Asians are "mongrels".

What's racist? Seems to be entirely based on Cheong's decade-plus of well-documented online behavior, not on his race.

Oxman didn’t resign

She's pretty much self-employed and out of academia, so that probably wasn't in the cards to begin with. Perhaps her company will lose some business, but I kind of doubt it. The stuff she does seems sufficiently low-profile that nobody will care that she plagiarized a bit.

I mean, if you see a bit of sculpture in a corporate lobby, you're probably not going to wonder if the designer stole a paragraph in a thesis, let alone care.

"widgets" must be a euphemism for "opioids"

"And then I made the demons build a half pipe the size of the grand canyon, and I did tricks that have never been done before, and the girls all watched and were impressed."

Going by the illustration of characters at the top of that page, "Kelthar" is a dead ringer for 80s Phil Oakey.

It directs my life not because I think it sounds pretty or prosocial, but because it’s tasty.

Who wrote this, Hannibal Lecter?

“Kidding on the square” as they used to say.

For all the talk about "sticking it to Wall Street", it's quite likely that most of the biggest "winners" in the GameStop mess were Wall Street types. Either trading for their employers or trading in their personal accounts.

The African slave trade of slavs? I think she means Arab. Or Arab/Muslim-osphere.

I wouldn't think sub-Saharan Africans ran a lot of ships up to the Baltic or the Black Sea to capture slavs for enslavement. Ottomans, yes. Barbary pirates, perhaps. Of course some of the most prominent of the Barbary pirates were actually raised Christian or Jewish in Europe, and joined the pirates as adults.

And I wouldn't be surprised at all if Europeans also captured slavs for sale to the Ottomans.

Why the hell would anyone think about Cyrus the Great every day, let alone fondly.