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.)

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      I just got a hit of esprit dā€™escalier, and wished Iā€™d replied to this

      But the road to Hackers News is paved with good intentions.

      with

      So too is the road to Rokoā€™s Basilisk.

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        Iā€™m increasingly convinced that this person is in a dark place mentally, and am fighting an internal battle to keep poking them for the lulz or just ignoring them.

        https://lobste.rs/s/lgqwje/does_current_ai_represent_dead_end#c_cyrxm4

        (Iā€™ve seen this behavior on lobste.rs before and I think sometimes people literally get banned for their own good)

        Edit bored on a train so I did the math, in the comment thread, this user has made 30% of the comments by count and 20% by ā€œvolumeā€ (basically number of bytes in the plaintext).

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          Edit bored on a train so I did the math, in the comment thread, this user has made 30% of the comments by count and 20% by ā€œvolumeā€ (basically number of bytes in the plaintext).

          thaā€™s a lotta posting