Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post, thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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    6 months ago

    if youā€™re using firefox, disable enhanced tracking protection to see disqus comments

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      Ah my solution to this is different: if the things that I use to protect my shit are blocking some $x, ah well that can just get fucked then

      Too exhausted by all the bullshit to try debug someoneā€™s fuckery and specialcase them. Only exception is if itā€™s something I need (and then Iā€™ll do so very grumpily, and quite possibly loudly)

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        6 months ago

        got you

        i mean specifically this one

        I donā€™t believe this says anything useful about Alphafold or Cryo structures because I just donā€™t believe these hit-rates. Anyone who reports 50% success from virtual screening has something very wrong with their assay. Before doing anything they should stick a pin in the catalogue 50 times, test those compounds, and when 25 of them come back active they should stop and work out why.

        The rest of criticisms is in article