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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” 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.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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    My professor is typing questions into chat gpt in class rn be so fucking for real

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      11 hours ago

      Heā€™s using it to give examples of exam question answers. The embarrassment

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        I mean, that kind of suggests that you could use chatGPT to confabulate work for his class and he wouldnā€™t have room to complain? Not that Iā€™d recommend testing that, because using ChatGPT in this way is not indicative of an internally consistent worldview informing those judgements.

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          Weā€™re going to be answering two essay questions in an in-class test instead of writing a paper this year specifically to prevent chat gpt abuse. Which he laughed and joked about because he really believes chat gpt can produce good results !

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            Iā€™m pretty sure you could download a decent markov chain generator onto a TI-89 and do basically the same thing with a more in-class appropriate tool, but speaking as someone with dogshit handwriting Iā€™m so glad to have graduated before this was a concern. Godspeed, my friend.

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        9 hours ago

        Iā€™d pipe up and go ā€œuhhh hey prof, arenā€™t you being paid to, like, impart knowledge?ā€

        (I should note that I have an extremely deficient fucks pool, and do not mind pissing off fuckwits. but I understand itā€™s not always viable to do)