What an obscure reach to make.
It’s from a book I love, Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land. The word is the Martian term for fully understanding something.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s been part of deep nerd culture for decades, but not really pop culture.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I do not sense a wrongness in your post so I will not disappear you. :)
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Share water, brother!
SmokeyDope@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Your thirst is mine, my water is yours! … Oh shit, wrong sci-fi world I think my bad
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
That’s really funny. He steals the name Tesla and Grok and when he tries to come up with his own names, we get “X” and “X Æ A-Xii”
Soggy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All the tech fascists steal words. Palantir is from Lord of the Rings.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Which infuriates me as a LotR fan.
and also makes me side eye Chris Tolkien hard, cause he is normally very aggressive in protecting the intellectual property…
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Palantirs were prominently used by Sauron to corrupt and manipulate weaker-willed users, so I have to admit it’s a really apropos use of the name.
kandoh@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
And Apple is a fruit smh
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
those are also names of his SONS, whom he doesnt really care about, just to name them.