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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this, and happy new year in advance.)

    • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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      Once a month or so Awful Systems casually mentions a racist in some sub-sub-culture who I had never heard about before and then I get to spend an hour doing background research on obscure net drama from 2013 or whatever.

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      If you stick around and do a bunch of research you will end up better informed and much unhappier.

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      Iā€™m making a mental note to keep that link around for the next time someone barges into one of our threads and does the ā€œI donā€™t know what this is, hereā€™s my reaction to what I thought the topic was, no I didnā€™t read the article or lurkā€ routine

      as a bonus they might accidentally watch the rest of the video and finally figure out how much AI sucks

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        ā€œI donā€™t know what this is, hereā€™s my reaction to what I thought the topic was, no I didnā€™t read the article or lurkā€

        bizarre that they actually just say this

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        You know guys, itā€™s really hard for me to give MY input when you are so negative about all the terrible things I like. Next time you guys come CRAWLING to me for advice, try not hating me as a human being for everything my twisted value system represents.

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      Oh no Iā€™m in this sketch and I donā€™t like it. Or at least, I would be. The secret is to acknowledge your lack of background knowledge or basic grounding in what youā€™re talking about and then blunder forward based on vibes and values, trusting that if youā€™re too far off base on the details youā€™ll piss off someone (sorry skillissuer) enough to correct you.