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 youāll near-instantly regret.
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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.)
Gary asks the doomers, are you āfeeling the agiā now kids?
To which Daniel K, our favorite guru lets us know that he has officially
moved his goal postsupdated his timeline so now the robogod doesnt wipe us out until the year of our lorde 2029.It takes a big brain superforecaster to have to admit your four month old rapture prophecy was already off by at least 2 years omegalul
Also, love: updating towards my teammate (lmaou) who cowrote the manifesto but is now saying he never believed it. āThe forecasts that donāt come true were just pranks bro, check my manifold score bro, im def capable of future sight, trustā
look at me, the thinking man, i update myself just like a computer beep boop beep boop
Clown world.
How many times will he need to revise his silly timeline before media figures like Kevin Roose stop treating him like some kind of respectable authority? Actually, I know the answer to that question. Theyāll keep swallowing his garbage until the bubble finally bursts.
And once it does theyāll quietly stop talking about it for a while to āfocus on the human stories of those affectedā or whatever until the nostalgic retrospectives can start along with the next thing.
āKevin Rooseā? More like Kevin Rube, am I right? Holy shit, I actually am right.
So, as I have been on a cult comparison kick lately, how did it work for those doomsday cults when the world didnāt end, and they picked a new date, did they become more radicalized or less? (Iām not sure myself, Iād assume it would be the people disappointed leave, and the rest get worse).
E: ah: https://slate.com/technology/2011/05/apocalypse-2011-what-happens-to-a-doomsday-cult-when-the-world-doesn-t-end.html
When Prophecy Fails is worth the read just for the narrative, he literally had his grad students join a UFO / Dianetics cult and take notes in the bathroom and kept it going for months. Really impressive amount of shoe leather compared to most modern psych research.
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