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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
On the left side within the text box thereās a sparkle emojiā¦ so I guess that means AI slop machine confirmed
More seriously though, Google Translate had odd and weird translation hiccups for a long time, even before the LLM hype. Very possible though that these days they have verschlimmbessert1 it with LLMs.
1 Just tried it, google translate doesnāt have a useful translation for the word, neither does DeepL. Disappointing. Luckily, there are always good old human-created dictionaries.
Wait didnāt Google Translate used to have a feature where you could type in improvements? I donāt see it now so they might have gotten rid of itā¦
Aside: my favorite human-created dictionary is Kenkyushaās New Japanese-English Dictionary. I have a physical copy and itās around 480,000 entries across nearly 3000 pages and paging through it I just feel āyes, now this is a dictionaryā. Itās so big that I might have to give it away or leave it with a friend if my plans of immigrating work out.