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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    Sometimes you read an article and you think ā€œthis article doesnā€™t want me to do X, but all its arguments against X are utterly terrible. If thatā€™s the best they could find, X is probably alright.ā€

    that thread is an unholy combination of two of my least favorite types of guys: techbros willfully misunderstanding research they disagree with, and homeopaths

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      this article doesnā€™t want me to drink a shitload of colloidal silver, but all its arguments against drinking colloidal silver (it doesnā€™t do anything for your health, it might turn you blue, it tastes like ass) are utterly terrible. If thatā€™s the best they could find, drinking a shitload of colloidal silver is probably alright.

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      What a terrible argument. Anything that involves messing around with your teeth needs to have good reasons to do it, rather than just good arguments against doing it.

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      Iā€™d think ā€˜we donā€™t know the side effects, it prob doesnā€™t work, and they are trying to sidestep the FDAā€™ would be good arguments against it. Esp after in the US Thalidomide (yes very much a dead horse), (mostly) wasnā€™t a problem because the FDA stopped it.

      Anyway, it seems like the full scale FDA project stranded due to not enough volunteers, so I suggest the HN people mad about this help out. Hey, it might turn out to actually work.