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.

Last weekā€™s thread

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

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      First-ever criminal charges against financial services firms for market manipulation and ā€œwash tradingā€ in the cryptocurrency industry

      Cryptocurrency is a 15-year old industry built mostly on market manipulation and wash trading and now weā€™re seeing the first charges for it? Man, back in the day they told me doing crime was illegal.

      Deflationary

      With every transaction supply shrinks by burning a percentage of reflections to the burn wallet

      Turns out libertarians actually love taxes, but only if instead of spending the tax money on anything, itā€™s burned to waste.

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        Further proof that at least some of these people donā€™t have a problem with losing money, they have a problem with other people receiving it.

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      Fraudster: ā€œthe ā€œobjective on the secondary marketsā€ is to find ā€œother buyers from the community, people you donā€™t know about or donā€™t care aboutā€ because ā€œwe have to make [the other buyers] lose money in order to make profit.ā€ā€

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      Is this supposed to be a parody or something? If so, why is this being done at the direction of the FBI? Or is that also part of the parody? If so I didnā€™t know you could use the FBI logo for that purpose.