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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    Fun fact: The plain vanilla physics major at MIT requires three semesters of quantum mechanics. And thatā€™s not including the quantum topics included in the statistical physics course, or the experiments in the lab course that also depend upon it.

    Grad school is another year or so of quantum on top of that, of course.

    (MIT OpenCourseWare actually has fairly extensive coverage of all three semesters: 8.04, 8.05 and 8.06. Zwiebach was among the best lecturers in the department back in my day, too.)

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      I almost want to go Twitter diving to see if kache has the requisite unhinged rant about how universities are only making quantum physics hard to get money/because of woke or whatever

      e: holy shit I already regret this

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        yeah donā€™t do it to yourself. I forget how I originally noticed this weirdo, it may have been through amolitor99ā€™s continuous anthropology safari of TPOT freaks. Speaking of which, somebody needs to get that guy over here

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          dammit now Iā€™m going to have to look at twitter

          tpot fresh on my mind, too. just yesterday i was telling someone about how one of the people semi in that cluster had me going šŸ¤Ø and then had to explain a little about some of the highlights of tpot

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        whoaā€¦on second thought, maybe this dude is having a manic episode or something? yeesh!

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        yeah, 3b1b animations can take you through all of undergrad math in probably a month if it all existed and you used anki

        We could bottle this arrogance and sell it as an emetic.

        And besides, we all know that mathematics videos peaked with the Angle Dance.

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          as one of many people here who has undergone undergrad math, i reckon a month of youtube and anki might not be enough for even intro to linear algebra. Iā€™m even saying this as someone who skipped all lectures and crammed before all the tests.