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.

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

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    6 days ago

    AGI is coming, weā€™re already at the ā€œdumb guy who doesnā€™t understand math but thinks heā€™s smartā€ level

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      Jim Propp once wrote,

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