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.

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      I made the mistake of reading the comments on that substack and Iā€™m beginning to actually feel the raw desperation of these sycophants for someone of ā€œnoteā€ to notice them.

      Innumeracy is the opioid of the masses.

      This is the genius-level discourse that Bryan Caplan foments in his marketplace of ideas.

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      Is he ever going to specify which booster? If he refused Tdap he is a menace to society not because of risk of tetanus but spreading pertussis to the vulnerable.

      Still, anyone that took him seriously before this should be embarrassed.

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      Itā€™s really really hard for me to take grown men who make a show of being deathly afraid of a little jab you can barely feel seriously.

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        Same here. Any kind of jabā€™s a PITA for me, and anything intravenous is some of the worst shit Iā€™ve ever experienced, but Iā€™ve gritted my teeth and gotten through them no problem.