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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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    A Bluesky post by Jamelle Bouie prompted me to reflect on how I resent that my knowledge of toxic nerd deep lore is now socially relevant.

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    Breaking Bad meme. Jesse: They always say ā€œRead the Sequencesā€, right?

    Walter White:

    Jesse: But the Sequences are all cult shit, like everything Yud says about quantum mechanics

    Jesse: Itā€™s all ā€œThe scientists are insufficiently Rationalā„¢ to see the truth, donā€™t trust the scientists, trust me insteadā€

    Walter White: Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about

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      That ā€˜uses an iq chart from a tabloid magā€™ thread reminded me how bad the Lw Rationalists are at Lw Rationality. It is supposed to help you be less biassed, but nope first google hit from a bad source and almost zero community pushback, because it confirms their bias about IQ, and the relative value of fields.

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      Drunk woman yelling into manā€™s ear (meme image). Captioned as though she is speaking:

      Their foundational text is a Harry Potter fanfic that supposedly teaches science

      but it gets 9th-grade biology wrong by fucking up Punnett squares