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.)

  • skillissuer
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    nuclear winter is not a thing that can possibly happen, from what i understand

    sagan et al overstated amount of soot put in upper atmosphere over 10x, for no particular reason other than trying to make a point

    notice how no one talked about it after desert storm? oilfield fires provided negative evidence

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      Another dream shattered. Not sure if the oilfield fires were big enough. Volcanoes can cause some cooling right? pokes old yeller

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        Weā€™ve had recent eruptions in all be big categories, so weā€™re not due another one for a while and trying to cheat by setting one off early wonā€™t allow sufficient pressure for a proper bang.

        Not that I want to discourage you, but donā€™t be sad if you try for a year without summer and get a couple of weeks without flights instead.