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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
I once fucked those up and people got mad. (I kid, they pointed out I usually use them correctly). I mostly use parentheses to note that im going a bit offtrack, which keeps happening, it is a bad habit.
Myself Iāve learned to embrace the em dashālike so, with a special shoutout to John Greenāand interleaving
( [ { } ] ). On mac and linux conveniently short-cutted to Option+Shift+ā-ā, windows is a much less satisfying Alt+0150 without third party tools like AutoHotKey.I write
--for āen dashā and---for āem dashā and I end up looking like an asshole in emails a lot. However, they appear to work correctly here:Also, Gnome Characters can be useful, though I have been looking for a good replacement.
I like to use
--in plain text too! LaTeX user high fiveā¦?Although I read somewhere recently that some people consider usage of em-dashes as a sign of AI-generated text. Oh well.
this feels like a pattern too ā so many naturally divergent or non-standard (from the perspective of a white American who thinks they own the English language) elements of writing are getting nonsensically trashjacketed as telltale signs that a text must be generated by an LLM. see also paully g trashjacketing ādelveā for purely racist reasons and the authors of the Nix open letter having the accusation of LLM use leveled at them by people who didnāt read the letter and didnāt want anyone else to either.
I need to finish crying over all my underfull hboxes, can we high-five in the evening?
Thank you for implicitly reminding me to take my ADD meds.
balancing parentheses is why I draft all my comments in emacs