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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

    • blakestacey@awful.systems
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      14 hours ago

      Tim Burners-Lee

      (snerk)

      From elsewhere in that thread:

      The physics of the 1800s had a lot of low hanging fruit. Most undergrads in physics can show you a derivation of Maxwellā€™s equations from first principles, and I think a fair few of them could have come up with it themselves if they were in Maxwellā€™s shoes.

      Lol no

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        old lecturer at my maths-for-chemists* course used to say something like this before exam: ā€œPlease donā€™t try to invent new maths, I wonā€™t stop you of course, but itā€™s a sign of great hubris to think that youā€™d outdo three thousand years of development in four hours. Just learn beforehand, itā€™ll be easierā€

        * a bit of linear algebra and calculus, just enough to get absolute basics of group theory as needed in spectroscopy and to solve one-electron Schrƶdinger equation for intro to computational chemistry