cackling

It's perhaps easier to picture the npm developers as maniacal villains, cackling as they wield destruction among us.

No one is rubbing their hands together and cackling over the evil laws that they past.

That did NOT mean that I was actively viewing everything and sitting in a tower somewhere cackling at all of the deep dirty news I had.

Our typical idea of a perpetrator of evil is this malicious, moustache-twirling, cackling super-villain.

Some are interesting anyway.) In a position like that, make one slip and a thousand cackling magpies instantly descend and start pecking at you.

I started cackling while watching this 'modernization' as I watched a crew member pull a black rectangle out of the avionics.

You're supposed to be cackling with joy along with Elon.

I don't mean to imply that you or anyone else who practices this sort of marketing is some sort of cartoon villain, cackling as you part anxious consumers from their money.

I enlisted a cow-orker into the effort and we were both cackling away.

Question, though: How on earth do you keep it together on stage when people are talking and girls are cackling in the audience during your whole performance?

> IRC chatlog which essentially portrayed moot & mods cackling gleefully while rubbing their hands together like James Bond villains.

(And then stood gloating over its remains, cackling and pumping its fists in the air.

In fact, my exact words were "I wouldn't convict you" - I really do get why you published this, and I don't think you're some bad guy cackling to yourself from deep within your evil lair or anything.

We think of evil acts as things perpetrated by conniving, malicious villains, but the reality is that evil acts like the holocaust were not perpetrated by cackling villains, but only happened because enough regular, otherwise perfectly nice people surrendered any personal responsibility for the larger implications of their work and contented themselves to "just follow orders".

I don't think there's any credible evidence of the 4chan staff makeup changing significantly during GamerGate, other than a "leaked" IRC chatlog which essentially portrayed moot & mods cackling gleefully while rubbing their hands together like James Bond villains.

It's more like, "hey we can get a great business deal and corner a market by doing this, this and this - legal team: are we doing anything wrong here?" They aren't cackling in a corner somewhere thinking about opportunities to toe the line.