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 you’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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

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[–] [S] 14 points 2 years ago (19 children)
  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    I’ve said it before a few times: this shit is a tunguska-level event on society today

    that there’s now even retroactive contamination fallout is sickening :|

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    tunguska incident only wiped out local squirrel population and its fallout was inert. this is more like leaded gasoline: introduced for profit, polluting for decades, makes people dumber during entire duration of it, entrenches techbros and makes them responsible for development of infrastructure going forward

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Sooner or later the only remaining source of reliable digital information will be 1990s multimedia CD-ROM encyclopedias.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I knew there was a reason I couldnt part with my CD tower.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I'm the weirdo who installs blu-ray drives in all my computers. I'm also the weirdo who has multiple computers. There are currently three or four (I've lost count) blu-ray drives in my house.

    It's great being able to buy and own movies without dealing with the horrors of streaming. Unfortunately discs are becoming less and less popular commercially, so a lot of stuff nowadays is streaming only.

    Also my car can play MP3 CDs so of course I need to be able to create those from a computer ^disregard^ ^the^ ^fact^ ^that^ ^my^ ^car^ ^also^ ^supports^ ^USB^ ^which^ ^I^ ^neglect^ ^since^ ^it's^ ^less^ ^retro^^.^

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    My father-in-law is a hoarder of both physical and digital things. His house is filled with hard drives where he has like stored copies of every movie ever made as mp4s and then he sends the drives to us because he has no physical space for them since he has junk from like 30 years ago piling up in the living room. So now my house is filled with random ass hard drives of (definitely not pirated) movies.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I don’t even have an optical drive anymore jesus.

    Encarta 96 btw

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  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Yeah production of consumer writeable CDs / DVDs / BDs has basically stopped already. The end is in sight.

    Also I'm not sure how much of a problem this is for newer CD drives, but older ones tend to give out sooner or later.

    My Sega Saturn*'s drive still works, but I also installed a Satiator** drive emulator in case that changes.

    * ^My^ ^username^ ^is^ ^serious^ ^business^ ^after^ ^all^

    ** ^Had^ ^to^ ^go^ ^with^ ^this^ ^option^ ^since^ ^it's^ ^the^ ^only^ ^non-destructive^ ^one^

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    AGI is coming, we're already at the "dumb guy who doesn't understand math but thinks he's smart" level

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago

    Jim Propp once wrote,

    I asked ChatGPT, the modern apotheosis of unjustified self-confidence, to prove that .999… is less than 1. Its reply began “Here is a proof that .999… is less than 1.” It then proceeded to show (using familiar arguments) that .999… is equal to 1, before majestically concluding “But our goal was to show that .999… is less than 1. Hence the proof is complete.” This reply, as an example of brazen mathematical non sequitur, can scarcely be improved upon.

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