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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
From an article about a boutique brand that sells books to rich people:
Oh, so they publish textbooks.
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now where did I leave my hammer and sickle
āā¦37%ā¦ That means nearly one in fourā¦ā
Eh, no it doesnāt, it means nearly two in five. Which is worse.
So youāre saying that theyāve got books worth at least a grand which their owners are literally using to flaunt their wealth?
Iām legally obligated to say stealing is legally and morally wrong buuuuuuuut
@BlueMonday1984 Betcha the authors arenāt getting paid industry-normal royalties (10-15% of net receipts) on those Veblen goods ā¦
(A few of my novels have been sold as limited-run signed first editions. Typically for 50%-100% more than the normal hardcover price, so maybe 3-5% as much as this nonsense. Cost of goods for a leatherbound, gilt-trimmed luxury edition is maybe $5-10, plus 10% of the cover price for the author. So someone in the middle is making serious bank.)
Of course the books are just vapid art books or travel books.
I just learned about this āwonderfulā little item too
@froztbyte Your term of art in economics to describe this shitbaggery is āVeblen goodsā: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
āa type of luxury goodā¦ for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve. The higher prices of Veblen goods may make them desirable as a status symbol in the practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.ā
handy to know, ty
āComplimentary Carbon Efficient Deliveryā
Carbon Efficient evenā¦
That means that DHL driver has to take bike instead of car for this one
If there is an elevator in the apartment, the driver has to take the stairs, contractually. Of course people who order that donāt live in high rise apartments where the driver can reach the door, so everybody wins.
Assouline! The gasoline of ass!