The title of this article is "Welcome to Gas Town."
You know how it seems every techbro reference to Tolkien is something cursed or evil without any self-awareness (e.g. Palantir)? Apparently, they're now extending this lack of awareness to the *Mad Max* series, only it's "impoverished dystopia" as the namesake.
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