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.

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    Wait, this guy published ā€œis Nearā€ twenty years ago and then UNIRONICALLY published ā€œis Nearerā€?

    Come the fuck on, this has to be satire?

    The sequel to ā€œApocalypse Nowā€, ā€œApocalypse Even More Presentlyā€

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      @V0ldek

      Buy my new book ā€œYouā€™re older than youā€™ve ever beenā€.

      Twenty years pass

      Buy my new book ā€œAnd now youā€™re even olderā€

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      iirc he predicted the singularity somewhere in 2040 so it does make sense, even if it looks weird.

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        Oh gosh, hopefully I live to see ā€œSingularity Is Still Near, Just Not as Near as I Thought: Trust Me Brosā€ released in 2041

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          ā€˜Sorry no singularity, climate change is an existential threat after allā€™.

          (Iā€™m bitterly reminded of the SSC post where he starts with ā€˜why donā€™t we hear about the ozone layer anymore, well the scientists fixed it!ā€™ where he goes after the environmentalist movement. There is only one problem with the ā€˜we fixed the ozone layerā€™ thing. Butt wait, there is more!)