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.)

  • BigMuffin69@awful.systems
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    Tech stonks continuing to crater šŸ«§ šŸ«§ šŸ«§

    Iā€™m sorry for your 401Ks, but Iā€™d pay any price to watch these fuckers lose.

    spoiler

    (mods let me know if this aint it)

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      (mods let me know if this aint it)

      the only things that ainā€™t it are my chances of retiring comfortably, but I always knew thatā€™d be the case

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      itā€™s gonna be a massive disaster across the wider economy, and - and this is key - absolutely everyone saw this coming a year ago if not two

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        In b4 thereā€™s a 100k word essay on LW about how intentionally crashing the economy will dry up VC investment in ā€œfrontier AGI labsā€ and thus will give the šŸ€s more time to solve ā€œalignmentā€ and save us all from big šŸ mommy. Therefore, MAGA harming every human alive is in fact the most effective altruism of all! Thank you Musky, I just couldnā€™t understand your 10,000 IQ play.

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      This kind of stuff, which seems to hit a lot harder than the anti trump stuff, makes me feel that a vance presidency would implode quite quickly due to other maga toadies trying to backstab toadkid here.

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        For me it feels like this is pre ai/cryptocurrency bubble pop. But with luck (as the maga gov infusions of both fail, and actually quicken the downfall (Musk/Trump like it so it must be iffy), if we are lucky). Sadly it will not be like the downfall of enron, as this is all very distributed, so I fear how much will be pulled under).