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Huh, nice to see Hacker News catching up to The Baffler. I used to work a couple floors down from them, before they moved to a nicer space.

• 1attice 3y ago
  I've been a reader and subscriber of _The Baffler_ since the '00s and I'm glad it shows :)
  • vGPU 3y ago
    I just went and checked it out. The first story: No Overtime at the Boner Factory Interestingly enough, it’s not even about the OP. They do seem to love their clickbait, attention-grabbing sound bites though. >Worst of all, a former employee had come forward with claims that Charney “kept her as his personal ‘sex slave’ for a period of eight months.” > A journalist visited, and he jerked off in front of her—“eight or so times.” Employees accused him of sexual assault. Flannery recalls an astonishing staff meeting at which Charney dropped his pants and railed against “PC bullshit” in a pair of pink briefs. As in - eight strokes? Or this happened on eight different occasions? And why pink underwear? Honestly, this entire story seems greatly exaggerated, and it appears to be their “style”.
    • 1attice 3y ago
      It's intellectual candy, certainly, but it's made with real fruit juice