(I get the feeling we’re close to this bubble’s end.)
Anyways, welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
I am sick and tired of all this benchmark business. It really feels like people staring at tea leaves and bird patterns and sheep guts to see if they line up with the prophecy written in the book some random shady oracle sold them 200 years ago. If they wanted a clear picture, why don’t they just ask a practitioner in the field? Ask a programmer if software has become very reliable and user-friendly, and if codebases are well-structured and easy to maintain and not spaghetti nightmares. Or they could just open their eyes and see Microsoft and the FAA shitting their pants on two consecutive days. But I guess it’s not Rational if it doesn’t let them make up 37 numbers.