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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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    As someone living in Switzerland for over 6 years, the labor laws arenā€™t exactly like in the rest of Europe and people are sometimes a bit too much on the freedumb side of things. Also weird german or (possibly less weird, I donā€™t speak it) french and high cost of living.

    Then again, itā€™s not anywhere as bad as whatā€™s happening in the us

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      Donā€™t worry I know (approximately) what Iā€™m getting into and have enough savings to be OK even if things donā€™t work out, and am on good terms with a few Swiss people so wonā€™t start out totally isolated. Worst case scenario I can always move back to California but Iā€™m at the point in my life where I want to check out Europe for a change.

      weird german

      When my German teacher told me she canā€™t understand Swiss German I thought ā€œhaha Iā€™m in dangerā€.