Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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!

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.

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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    7 months ago

    to their credit, they did manage to get past the editor:

    This is all far-out stuff even for Musk, who is notorious for making ambitious promises to investors and customers that donā€™t pan out ā€” from developing software that can turn an existing Tesla into a self-driving vehicle with an upload, to EV battery swapping stations.

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      7 months ago

      yeah, fair call on that. I just live in hope that we can get to a point where ā€œlying fucker with history of failures and grandiose statements has made another ridiculous grandiose statement probably composed of liesā€ can be the actual type of headline, instead of this constant simping bullshit