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 - this one was a bit late, I got distracted)

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      Software licensing is notoriously labyrinthine, so resources like the site Microsoft will close ā€“ Get Licensing Ready ā€“ can be very handy. Today, the site offers over 50 training modules plus documentation.

      Iā€™m sorry, mister MSFT, why did you cause there to be more educational content about your stupid licenses than there is for theoretical physics in an undergrad programme, have you ever considered that itā€™s time to stop? Get some help?

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    My organic chemistry professor used ChatGPT to write a lab procedure. My other chemistry professorā€™s daughter is VP of AI at Microsoft. AAAAA

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      Two posts in two weeks about professors using ChatGPT has me questioning my desire to go back to school

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      iā€™ve been there for few days for conference once and it does look at least like a nice place to visit with no obvious glaring problems to be seen. walkable, organized, you can get around without a car np, doesnā€™t seem to be extremely expensive but again, i havenā€™t been there for a long time. itā€™s like you took nicer parts of Warsaw, slapped a port next to it and cooled down a few degrees

      unless youā€™re talking about that EA techbro billionaire, then iā€™ve got no idea

      looking to move?