Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
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, 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.
tired: learning from others through the wealth of experiences and resources that are widely available
wired: taking a āfirst principlesā approach to endangering and traumatising your own child
Bean Dad but instead of a can opener itās swimming/not drowning
@jax @dgerard
āI literally shared that story with every close friend I haveā
And they all said āwhat the fuck would you do that for?ā
HN Parenting Pro-tip: Chuck your kids into the pool, keep 'em sharp. Sure they might drown, but at least they wonāt trust you after they make it back to land.
Oh my gahhhhd. āMost child abuse is committed by family and friends, so why not commit some abuse against your child?ā
what the fuck
one of my few childhood memories is some dipshit fuckwad at a family-friends event who, upon learning that I hadnāt ever gone/tried swimming, decided all upon their lonesome to throw me into the pool
unfortunately I only recall the general event, and not who it was.
Something like that happened to me at a similar age (wonāt go into details) and I never got over my dislike of going into pools and the ocean and learning to swim (which I never have).
Reminds me of this blokeās approach to teaching swimming.
As somebody who fell into the deep end of a pool when I was younger of my own accord and took a decade or so to learn how to swim after that, I can say thatās the sort of thing thatās gonna fuck that kid up badly. Even today, Iām not entirely comfortable in the water.