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

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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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      7 months ago

      Dont worry, as people are aware this might happen, it isnā€™t technically a black swan event. It is just a risk we are ignoring ;) (im not sure if this is actually a real risk, or that we really are ignoring it, im not a marine biologist).

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        7 months ago

        I feel this makes it an unlikely great filter though. Surely some aliens would be less stupid than humanity?

        Or they could be on a planet with far less fossil fuels reserves, so they donā€™t have the opportunity to kill themselves.

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          Think both ā€˜has the wisdom as a society to prevent unknown unknown side effects from industrialization from wrecking the ecosystemā€™ and ā€˜has almost no access to fossil fuelsā€™ could also be pretty effective filters. In the latter case they prob would still be around but they wouldnā€™t spread in the universe so we wouldnā€™t hear from them which I think would satisfy the filter reqs.