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. Also, happy April Foolā€™s in advance.)

    • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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      22 hours ago

      Not dating your press releases on your own site is a choice. (Lot more places do this and it is driving me slowly mad) So, did they drop this yday? Some weird schrodingers april fools joke deflection attempt?

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      I am fairly certain that their stupid AI stance at least played a role. Iā€™m part of a largish writing community, where at least several hundred people did NaNo each year, a good part of them donated too. Last year, no one partook, instead we did our own internal thing.

      If this happened across other communities too, and I wouldnā€™t be surprised if it did, they must have felt it financially.

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        It is a CIA psyop to prevent revolutionary thought from arising in written media, in that itā€™s a self-inflicted PIP that makes you feel inadequate in your creative writing ability. CIA funding (obviously funneled through NGOs via CIA front USAID) is how itā€™s survived so long with such a stupid name. Of course, now that government spending on the CIA is going down, so is NaNoWriMo. All thatā€™s left is for it to be supplanted by some benevolent Chinese competitor that people will say steals your data, or something.

        /s /s /s

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          I demand you prove your assertion! preferably using wallspaghetti and alphabet soup, of course. soā€™s I know itā€™s totes legit and original!

          (/s ofc, and link too (incase anyone didnā€™t see that))