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.)

  • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
    9Ā·
    11 months ago

    Does anyone know who or what is Ziz in this context? Google says jewish mythological beast.

    edit: found this:

    The Zizians were a cult that focused on relatively extreme animal welfare, even by EA standards, and used a Timeless/Updateless decision theory, where being aggressive and escalatory was helpful as long as it helped other world branches/acausally traded with other worlds to solve the animal welfare crisis.

    They apparently made a new personality called Maia in Pasek, and this resulted in Pasekā€™s suicide.

    They also used violence or the threat of violence a lot to achieve their goal.

    This caused many problems for Ziz, and she now is in police custody.

      • skillissuerEnglish
        11Ā·
        11 months ago

        itā€™s like looking from outside at minor splinter groups within scientology, and the purported voice of reason says that the right way to deal with these transgressors is to return to scientologist orthodoxy. it even includes seasteading

        • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
          6Ā·
          11 months ago

          I was reading something David wrote about it at one point, but it seemed like lore too cursed even for the rationalist milieu

          • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
            5Ā·
            11 months ago

            Rationalism is a cult, but itā€™s also a cult franchise that generates smaller cults. Also a lot of the people were not entirely balanced to start with and rationalism made them worse. Anyway, Ziz.

      • skillissuerEnglish
        9Ā·
        11 months ago

        that blog in question comes with its own private glossary and is just as dense and long as you can expect. i spent half an hour trying to figure it out and noped when noticed scroll bar position