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.

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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

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    So after billions of investment, and gigawatt-hours of energy, itā€™s now ā€œnot too bad for throwaway weekend projectsā€. Wow, great. Letā€™s fire all the programmers already!

    Apart from whatever the fuck that process is, it is not engineering.

    And to think that people hated on Visual Basic onceā€¦ in comparison to this stuff, it was the most solid of solid foundations.

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      So after billions of investment, and gigawatt-hours of energy, itā€™s now

      on the level of a ā€˜build your own websiteā€™ site. They are the wysiwyg users now.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      thatā€™d be easily terawatt-hours i think. just muskā€™s server farmā€™s generators are 100MW, and draw who knows how much from grid, and if it runs for a year and two months at that power thatā€™s 1TWh. and thereā€™s google, ms, amazon, whatever chinese are cooking,