The spooks grow ever closer, and the abyss grows ever sandier.
Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll 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 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.)


Look he is right, if you redefine ārentā to mean something totally else that includes people being paid for their labour.
In the same way that telling people they should pay their fair share of taxes is actually saying you want to murder them. (Sorry crazy libertarian logic is the only way I can make sense of this).
He points out that mathematicians are also rent-seekers (though only 20% rent-seeking). You know, those famously capital-extractive mathematicians.
Damn, I was raking in so much cash from my mathematical theorems. Pretty good source of passive income, came with nice tax benefits too. Too bad itās all gone now. Maybe I should put my money in REITs.
Oh my god heās doing fandom gatekeeping discourse
https://bsky.app/profile/segyges.bsky.social/post/3my3letkpbc2b
Lol dorkus
Itās āfully automated luxury gay space communismā, and every adjective is a pithy critique of the past.
āLol dorkusā is an idiomatic translation of Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur (more literally āWhat is freely asserted is freely deniedā), and if you call that āHitchensās razorā I will fucking cut you.
what never having seen a left-wing person in real life does to a slopper
The āvicious traditionalismā that develops among his fellow travelers, who insist that some form of autonomous, inscrutable AI has to be the next step in technological progress, will be something to see. Religious movements donāt just stop when their central prophecy disappoints.
I just wonder if he means āthey are looking to pay their rentā or āthey are holding on the ācapital of being able to do mathā and want to be paid for itā.
⦠the fuck?