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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026 (awful.systems)
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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 so 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard. Also celebrating my birthday on Friday)

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[–] 9 points 2 days ago (1 child)

SlateScott first floated his bright idea about "medical ethics are for foreigners not a good-hearted genius like me" in 2010.

Here's what happens. In some far off corner of the world, some psycho doctor does something horrible like deliberately inject a patient with flesh-eating bacteria. The media hears about it and panics the public, who become suitably enraged and make demands of their politicians. Their politicians go to leading medical administrators and demand that doctors be more ethical. The leading medical administrators obviously don't control the actions of every single psycho doctor, so they think quick and say "Okay, we'll make all medical students take a class on Ethics and Professionalism," hand the implementation off to professors, and then raise their own salaries for thinking of such a brilliant idea.

I guess California and Alberta and Sweden and Japan were far off from Cork, Ireland. How did he pass that class?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Hippocratic oath is government-imposed oppression apparently

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago*

    There is no way that the class did not cover how MDs and nurses have been central to state atrocities for 150 years, from Bush's torture program to MK-ULTRA to Unit 731 to the original eugenicists (who kept committing wild sterilizations into the 1970s). There is no way that it did not cover how authorities often hint at what they want done without being so vulgar as to say it where it could come up at their trial.

    But didn't he get that authoritarian followers are deterred if an authority figure like a professor says "the following acts are unacceptable?"

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