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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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    holy shitting fuck, just got the tip of the year in my email

    Simplify Your Hiring with AI Video Interviews

    Interview, vet, and hire thousands of job applicants through our AI-powered video interviewer in under 3 minutes & 95 languages.

    ā€œAI-Video Vetting That Actually Worksā€

    itā€™s called kerplunk.com, a domain named after the sound of your balls disappearing forever

    the market is gullible recruiters

    founder is Jonathan Gallegos, his linkedin is pretty amazing

    other three top execs donā€™t use their surnames on Kerplunkā€™s about page, one (Kyle Schutt) links to a linkedin that doesnā€™t exist

    for those who know how Dallas TX works, this is an extremely typical Dallas business BS enterprise, itā€™s just this one is about AI not oil or Texas Instruments for once

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      Itā€™s also the sound it makes when I drop-kick their goddamned GPU clusters into the fuckin ocean. Thankfully I havenā€™t run into one of these yet, but given how much of the domestic job market appears to be devoted towards not hiring people while still listing an opening it feels like Iā€™m going to.

      On a related note, if anyone in the Seattle area is aware of an opening for a network engineer or sysadmin please PM me.

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        best guess iā€™ve heard so far is theyā€™re trying to sell this shitass useless company before the bubble finally deflates and theyā€™re hoping the AI interviews of suckers are sufficient personal data for that