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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      How the heck have people become soā€¦ blasĆ© about climate change?? It is wild to me. If weā€™re restarting nuclear reactors, with everything that entails, it should be with the goal of shutting down gas or coal power. Not to do more unsustainable garbage on top of all the existing unsustainable garbage.

      Feels like the worldā€™s just given up sometimes, even though itā€™s not quite too late.

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        Yea, Iā€™m glad a nuclear plant is being restored but it sucks that itā€™s because of fucking plagi-o-matic.

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      [ā€¦] the tech giant would buy 100 percent of its power for 20 years.

      I want them to fucking choke on this deal when the bubble bursts.

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        I live like 15mi from there, I would prefer the containment bubble to stay intact. But the tech bubble is welcome to go blow up any moment

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      ā€œto give you more AI slop we have to restart TMIā€ is going to do wonders for the publicā€™s opinion of Big Tech

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      God almighty, the hubris to think that theyā€™ll this thing will be ready to go before the end of the decade. Whoā€™s going to be the prime contractor, I wonder? Bechtel?

      Also, this gem inserted at the end as if itā€™s nothingā€¦Iā€™m all for fusion research, but this is not happening by 2028. Someone needs to get the hook for Satya at this point, heā€™s just lighting money on fire.

      Microsoft is also pursuing power from nuclear fusion, a potentially abundant, cheap and clean form of electricity that scientists have been trying to develop for decades ā€” and most say is still a decade or more away from generating electricity. Microsoft has signed a contract to purchase fusion energy from a start-up that claims it can deliver it by 2028.