Tom Achronos
achronos.net
Tom Achronos
@achronos.net
Shared Services Engineering Lead at Bungie. Currently supporting Destiny and Marathon. My opinions do not represent my employer’s views.
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
theonion.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...
March 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to mak...
theonion.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Holy SHIT, that's good news!!!
Unbelievable news.

Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.

New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Trump Boys Get Tongues Stuck To Frozen White House
Trump Boys Get Tongues Stuck To Frozen White House
WASHINGTON—Flailing their arms and crying out in anguish, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. were reportedly panicking Thursday after getting their tongues stuck to a frozen column near the West Wing of ...
theonion.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Star Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough
February 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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2025 feels like a struggling tv show grasping for ratings, like it’s just inciting incident after inciting incident after inciting incident and a new poorly written cartoonish villain that nobody asked for and every week they somehow find a more ridiculous shark to jump
February 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Andrew Jackson: I may be in Hell now, but I burn with the confidence that no other American president will ever top the Trail of Tears

Donald Trump: Hold my Diet Coke
February 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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This. This is the fundamental issue. If the government can simply declare you outside the class of people who are entitled to due process, how do you prove otherwise?
If there is any class of persons whose rights are not guaranteed by the Constitution, then the government can do anything they want to any of us.

Oh, you're not part of the excluded class? Once they say you are, you have no right to make your case. No case to make.
January 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
theonion.com/trump-c...
January 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Comply in advance? Naw, man. That would require effort.
January 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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In terms of gamedev inefficiencies, I want to staple Don’t Read The Comments to a number of senior decision-makers’ foreheads in this industry.

It’s wild to have to talk mature adults through, but sooo many people in positions of power take anon comments as representative gospel.
January 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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I would absolutely read a 5,000-word deep-dive on whatever high-powered PR agency is charging Mark Zuckerberg tens of millions of dollars to shape his public image as a bootlicking scrub
Zuckerberg Says Most Companies Need More ‘Masculine Energy’
Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy,” adding that it’s good if a culture “celebrates the aggression a bi...
www.bloomberg.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Mark Zuckerberg Insists Anyone With Same Skewed Values And Unrelenting Thirst For Power Could Have Made Same Mistakes
theonion.com/mark-zu...
January 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Man Returns To Work After Vacation With Fresh, Reenergized Hatred For Job
theonion.com/man-returns-...
January 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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I say we beat the shit out of 2025 as soon as it shows up, just as a message to any potential future years
December 31, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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The front page of today’s Wall Street Journal encapsulates 2024 perfectly.
December 24, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Visiting your family for the holidays is like jumping back into a videogame after months of not playing. Why am I supposed to care about these little guys
December 23, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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December 17, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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LaGuardia sounds like a virus your dog gets from eating a gyro off the street
December 14, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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"Video games cause violence"

Meanwhile, me reloading my save because I accidentally made one of the characters sad
December 10, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Can confirm.
December 8, 2024 at 8:50 AM