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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Somebody pointed out that HNās management is partially to blame for the situation in general, on HN. Copying their comment here because itās the sort of thing Dan might blank:
Somewhat related I was thinking about how different this blog post from a DOGE āemployeeā reads during Elon Musks coup attempt: https://vinay.sh/i-am-rich-and-have-no-idea-what-to-do-with-my-life/ ā it was discussed here but no one really knew what was coming at the time.
Thereās also a youtube video which has been popping off on social media over the last week and is a gentle introduction to techno-fascists for the general public.
wow the sanewashing of trump in those threads is insane
dāyaā¦dāya think theyāll make it all the way along the path, to the realization?
no
The ones who walk towards Omelas. (And Omelas is fine actually, you damn hippy).
āWhy Donāt We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Holeā by Isabel J. Kim
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/
Finally it turns out torturing the kid was unnecessary and spreading out the suffering would have worked fine. All Omelas had to do was raise their income tax a little bit.