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.

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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.

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

  • froztbyte@awful.systems
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    depends on audience / person? and also maybe teacher

    Iā€™ve stepped people through essentials with e.g. idea ā€œtell me how to make coffeeā€ (as an intro to procedurals and dependency) all the way through many other types/shapes, through lego/blockly/whatever style teaching, and through outright ā€œimagine this is a magic box and ${thing} comes out the other sideā€ stepped iteration. sometimes you can jump straight to ā€œhey so hereā€™s a language that means specific things and hereā€™s what that meansā€ and go from there

    so yeah I guess for my part Iā€™d say I attune to the recipient. but for advice toward teacher I guess Iā€™d attune that toward what I figure theyā€™d be good at teaching

    soā€¦ whatā€™re you good at (teaching)?

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      I mean for myself. Iā€™ve gotten as far as making a blackjack game in the past, but I couldnā€™t figure out what to do next.