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tototavros asked: The joke answer is college newspaper. The serious answer is a less useful/practical&differently political version of RAND.
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My first real engagement with The Online was everything2 in the early \u201800s, and a big part of that was The Custodian, a black military anorak who worked for RAND by the Santa Monica pier, explaining everything like half a decade before The War Nerd,

Also there was \u201ciceowl\u201d the guy who spent several years\u2019 turns at McMurdo in Antarctica and \u201criverrun\u201d who had a great sequence about being a military musician (of the morale-lifting rock band \u201cThe Joint Chiefs of Staff\u201d) in \u2018Nam, and this wonderfully cranky old fuck \u201cdannye\u201d, those guys really left an impression on me

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