Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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!

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.

    • deborah
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      204 months ago

      I wonder if we can start requiring history of science, philosophy, and literary & artistic theory classes in secondary school (or at least before giving out doctorates), just to limit incredibly annoying adults who think they’re geniuses. I also thought I invented brain-in-a-vat thought experiments when I was ten, but I don’t opine on them reinvented from first principles.

    • Mii
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      204 months ago

      Proof that pasta doesn’t exist:

      • An atom isn’t pasta.
      • Adding an atom to something that isn’t pasta doesn’t make it pasta.
      • Therefore nothing is pasta.
      • @Soyweiser
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        64 months ago

        omg, I’m not real.

      • @ebu
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        104 months ago

        maybe you’re referring to when i brought it up in last week’s thread? and yeah, this is basically the same

        can’t wait for AI bros to invent the trolley problem

        • David GerardMA
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          4 months ago

          twice as fast trolleys, with ChatGPT driving

          • @froztbyte
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            104 months ago

            new thing for the next little while: anytime a promptfondler claims a prompt has intelligence, “oh yeah so why do you have to ask it things? why isn’t it here having a beer with us?” for the 3 minutes of entertainment it may provide

            • @froztbyte
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              104 months ago

              making that subscript was not intentional, but rofl. gj lemmy