Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025 - awful.systems
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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no. If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high. > The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be) > > Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
    4·
    9 hours ago

    Ah, I don’t listen to riskybiz because ugh podcast

    Schneier’s a dipshit well past his prime, though. people should stop listening to that ossified doorstop

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Ow yeah, I don’t disagree on that, even if I do keep up with them. Just making my sources obvious. (One of the ticks I do find valuable from the Rationalists, the verbosity and tendency to try and over explain isn’t as valuable, but hard to shift (and the one feeds in the other (and… im doing it again ain’t I?))).

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        3·
        8 hours ago

        that’s fair - the first half of my post was certainly more about me than anything (but was also an indication as to why I don’t hear that particular angle much - I’ve also ensured I get as little as possible advertising in my life)

        other part: nah still, fuck schneier

        rest of your comment reminds me of the tact filters post (albeit in a different angle)

        • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
          2·
          8 hours ago

          Tact filter is prob what went wrong with the Lawyer person discussed elsewhere, I never had heard about it (or had forgotten).