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)

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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    Today in you canā€™t make this stuff up: SpaceX invades Cards Against Humanityā€™s crowdfunded southern border plot of land.

    Article (Ars Technica) Lawsuit with pictures (PDF)

    Reddit Comment with CAHā€™s email to backers

    The above Ars Technica article also lead me to this broader article (reuters) about SpaceXā€™s operations in Texas. I found these two sentences particularly unpleasant:

    County commissioners have sought to rechristen Boca Chica, the coastal village where Johnson remains a rare holdout, with the Musk-endorsed name of Starbase.

    At some point, former SpaceX employees and locals told Reuters, Starbase workers took down a Boca Chica sign identifying their village. They said workers also removed a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe, an icon revered by the predominantly Mexican-American residents who long lived in the area.

    Reading all of this also somehow makes Elon Muskā€™s anti-immigrant tweets feel even worse to me than they already were.

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      Damn, 3 hours late to the party. Despite my disdain for their game, i can only recall enjoying CAHā€™s liberal antics.

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        CAH is definitely a game you only play with people youā€™ve known your whole life, isnā€™t it?

        Once played with randoms at a hacker con and almost died of embarrassment.

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      Considering the style of humor they have and Musk tries to show, I do wonder how hurt Musk is over all this. And only a matter of time before his sycophants create ā€˜CAH is dyingā€™ graphs and animal meme images with testicles.