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.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • froztbyte@awful.systems
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    the mozilla PR campaign to convince everyone that advertising is the lifeblood of commerce and that this is perfectly fine and good (and that everyone should just accept their viewpoint) continues

    We need to stare it straight in the eyes and try to fix it

    try, you say? and whatā€™s your plan for when you fail, but youā€™ve lost all your values in service of the attempt?

    For this, we owe our community an apology for not engaging and communicating our vision effectively. Mozilla is only Mozilla if we share our thinking, engage people along the way, and incorporate that feedback into our efforts to help reform the ecosystem.

    are you fucking kidding me? ā€œwe can only be who we are if we maybe sorta listen to you while we keep doing what we wanted to doā€? seriously?

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      the purestrain corporate non-apology that is ā€œwe should have communicated our vision effectivelyā€ when your entire community is telling you in no uncertain terms to give up on that vision because itā€™s a terrible idea nobody wants

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        ā€œitā€™s a failure in our messaging that we didnā€™t tell you about the thing youā€™d hate in advance. if we were any good we wouldā€™ve gotten out ahead of it (and made you think itā€™s something else)ā€

        and the thing is, thatā€™s probably exactly the lesson theyā€™re going to be learning from this :|

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      How do we ensure that privacy is not a privilege of the few but a fundamental right available to everyone? These are significant and enduring questions that have no single answer. But, for right now on the internet of today, a big part of the answer is online advertising.

      How do we ensure that traffic safety is not a privilege of the few but a fundamental right available to everyone? A big part of the answer is drunk driving.

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        How do we prevent huge segments of the world from being priced out of access through paywalls?

        Based Mozilla. Abolish landlords. Obliterate the commodity form. Full luxury gay communism now.

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        What a pisstake. Shit I donā€™t want to use palemoon, are there any other browsers???