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)

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    But Trump canā€™t explain things, and Urbit defies explanation. So does the statement ā€œTrump explains Urbitā€ represent undefined behavior in English?

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      What is worse? Trump explaining urbit and coming close? Or him explaining it so wrong you feel the need to set the record straight about the gravest misconceptions? (ā€œTrump said Elon invented it, but it actually was Yarvin, also as Elon didnt invent it, he certainly didnt say ā€˜good idea sirā€™ to Trumpā€).

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        I think in this case, the equivalent of a compiler error for undefined behavior would be a swiftly forgotten wire story entitled ā€œTrump promotes cryptocurrency projectā€ published on a Friday afternoon. Just one more scam among the flood, and not one that can be offered for easy monthly payments with a banner ad in the margins of an RSBN broadcast.

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          Yeah, everyone in the traditional media seems to be even more committed to sane-washing than they were in the lead up to the election.

          Though the spike doge got today is definitely in the ā€œlaugh to avoid screamingā€ column.