Funnily enough Samuel Beckett of Waiting for Godot fame (not the quantum leap guy) wrote a play called Endgame, also punning on the chess term.

A man who can’t walk or see has the only combination to the food pantry, a man who can’t sit down is the only one who can take him there to open it. They are the last two people alive. They both continually try to out do each other and come out on top as they can’t trust each other to live in peace.

he’s saying the dough is like paper

nah its whitelabelling AI credits. You build an API connector, charge 3x for a credit and sell it to a business.

I gigged with Alex Edelman, he’s a nice dude.

to be fair to georgia, the bottom is shaped like that because of a river, I assume thats the case for AL as well

pick up sticks

I disagree that tech is more left wing, a lot of them are very religious - evangelical or Mormon or believe in ultra capitalistic Ayn Rand fantasies.

counterpoint: Donald Trump

The voting system to suppress content suppresses reasonable views and ends up with highly upvoted nazi shit. Not because everyone is a Nazi (arguable) but because nazis have a motivation to push an agenda.