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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    • I donā€™t know Matt Mullenweg, but Iā€™m afraid to ask
    • I love the nonsensical misleading QR code onliner, conflictingly using both echo "<URL>" | and mac-only getoutput("pbpaste") (yuck).
    • It is famously easy to maintain a job and mental well-being when you have no stable home and few sets of clothes! Famously you donā€™t need a registered address to open a bank account, and you donā€™t need a bank account to get a registered address!
    • I guess you could run the GPU for 1000 years.
    • One needs to learn that interpolation = confabulation = useless bullshit.
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      22 days ago

      that one-liner is just ā€¦ mental

      imagine the fucking brain it takes to go ā€œokay yeah Iā€™ll put this through opencvā€ instead of literally clipboard-paste | qrencode | clipboard-capture

      just whole brain genius levels of bad

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        Oh my god, the incredibly important numpy import and the way itā€™s not even reading the piped input but the clipboard using a shell command of all things are sending me. Is this the expertise you can gain in two weeks?