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.

(Taking over for Gerard this time. Special thanks to him for starting this.)

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
    12Ā·
    6 days ago

    Yeah I already have a lot of non-US stocks, and next week Iā€™m going to rebalance to make them the majority.

    Iā€™m not a finance person. My uncle whoā€™s in the world of international corporate law thinks things will be fine so maybe Iā€™m being a bit cautious but the way I see it there are a few big issues:

    • The US government is trying itā€™s best to implode itself.
    • There is a brain-drain effect (or heck, a worker-drain effect in general), it will pick up as things get worse.
    • The US government is becoming much more isolationist and detached from the global economy.
    • There is a small but real chance that the US government will start one or more major wars over the next decade

    All of this also increases the risk of ā€œblack swanā€ events like pandemics, hacks, the US ā€œinvestingā€ all the ā€œsavingsā€ they ā€œfoundā€ into cryptocurrency schemes, large-scale unrest, or god knows what else.

      • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
        14Ā·
        6 days ago

        Yeah just saw that. Itā€™s messed up.

        I told my job a couple weeks ago that Iā€™m planning to move out of the US. They need me more than I need them so they might actually help with that; but even if a transfer works out I intend to get out this year one way or another, even if it means a study visa instead of a job.

        Even if things magically turn around like some people think my mind is set. Irreversable damage has already been done in my mind. I said in another comment that I feel like a stranger in America now (this is, in a weird sense, kind of a freeing feeling).

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
          6Ā·
          6 days ago

          this is, in a weird sense, kind of a freeing feeling

          speaking from experience, yep. once you make your mind up on a gtfo intent re a bad situation, so much other shit just falls away

          itā€™ll definitely have hard bits, but keep at it. worth it