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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
got sent this image
wonder how many more of these things weāll see before people start having a real bileful response to this (over and above the fact that a number of people have been warning about exactly this outcome for a while now)
(transcript below)
transcript
title: I gave my momās company an Al automation and now she and her coworkers are unemployed
body: So this is eating me alive and I donāt really know where else to put it. I run this little agency that builds these Al agents for staffing firms. Basically the agent pre-screens candidates, pulls the info into a neat report, and sends it back so recruiters donāt waste hours on screening calls. Itās supposed to be a tool, not a replacement.
My mom works at this mid sized recruiting company. Sheās always complained about how long it takes to qualify candidates, so I set them up with one of my agents just to test it. It crushed it. Way faster, way cheaper, and honestly more consistent than most of their team.
Fast forward two months and theyāve quietly laid off almost her whole department. Including my mom. I feel sick. Like I built something that was supposed to help people, and instead it wiped out my momās job and her team. I keep replaying it in my head like I basically automated my own family out of work.
Pressing F for doubt, looks like a marketing scam to me.
Itās pretty screwed up that humble bragging about putting their own mother out of a job is a useful opening to selling a scam-service. At least the people that buy into it will get what they have coming?
that or some kind of bait
I didnāt dig into the post/username at all so I canāt guesstimate likelihood of this! get where youāre coming from
(ā¦I really need to finish my blog relaunch (this thought brought to you by the explication I was about to embark on in this context))
(((itās soon.gif tho!)))
Gonna have to agree with zogwarg here. I checked out the Reddit profile and theyāre a self-proclaimed entrepreneur whose one-man āagencyā has zero clients and yet to even have an idea, attempting to crowdsource the latter on r/entrepreneur.
dude has a post named āfrom 0 to 1 clients in 48hā where someone calls him out for already claiming to have 17 customers, so itās reasonable to assume that this guy is full of shit either way
then again, thereās plenty of clueless, could be real, because welcome to current year, where everything is fake, satire is dead and reuters puts the onion out of the business
āset them up withā
Anybody want to bet if they did it for free?
could go either way tbh