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)

    • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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      If youā€™re against unrestricted genAI then youā€™re also transphobic

      What. Wait has anyone claimed this? Because thatā€™s absurd.

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        Dunno but why not, after Nanowrimo claimed that opposing ā€œAIā€ means youā€™re classist and ableist. Why not also make objecting be sexist, racist etc. Iā€™m going to be ahead of the curve by predicting that being against ChatGPT will also be a red flag that youā€™re a narcissistic sociopath manipulator because uhh because abused women need ChatGPT to communicate with their toxic exes /s

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        Considering how much the AI hype feels like the cryptocurrency hype, during which every joke you made had already been seriously used to make a coin and been pumped and dumped already, I wouldnā€™t be surprised at all.

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        Oh, I wonder if they are referring to this shit, where somone came to r/lgbt fishing for compliments for the picture theyā€™d asked Clippy for, and were completely clowned on by the entire community, which then led to another subreddit full of promptfans claiming that artists are transphobic because they didnā€™t like a generated image which had a trans flag in it.

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          remembering the NFT grifter who loudly asserted that if you werenā€™t into NFTs then you must be a transphobe

          (it was Fucking Thorne)

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            fondly remembering replying to these types of people with screenshots from the wikipedia page on affinity fraud. they really hated that

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      I suspect itā€™ll land somewhere above ā€œhalitosisā€ but below ā€œwearing black socks with sandals.ā€