Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 April 2024 - eviltoast

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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post, thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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    8 months ago

    weā€™re looking for a sneerious name for a collaborative design/programming community for non-dickheads, like hacker news but not shit. thread your suggestions here!

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        8 months ago

        Just to confuse things design a logo that references both Margaret Hamilton from NASA and Margaret Hamilton the Wicked Witch actress. Maybe a woman flying on a NASA rocket-propelled bicycle, but maybe not because the slow and judgey might think thatā€™s calling NASA Hamilton a witch.

        Actually referencing a non-technical woman might even help repel HN types.

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      8 months ago

      Iā€™m feeling uncreative but itā€™s a shame giggle academy is taken

      ā€œpainter newsā€ could be a nice jab at PGā€™s ā€œHackers & Paintersā€

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        8 months ago

        GNU/Scrotum is a great name for a lemmy fork, but Richardā€™s copyright lawyers would probably sue me and the settlement terms would involve him eating his foot skin on my couch and leeching off of my wifi from his 2004 laptop for 12-24 months

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          Are you sure he limits it to his foot skin?

          Play your cards right and you could put him to work like one of those fish that eat dead skin off feet as part of a pedicure.

          Apropos of nothing, does Stallman still request access to a parrot? Itā€™d be funny to find him a place to stay with a person whose parrot is trained to talk shit about Stallman. ā€œKWOK! SHUT UP ABOUT HURD!ā€

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          Nah itā€™s masturbation in Swedish.

          More specifically, ā€œen runkā€ is analogous to ā€œa wankā€, but itā€™s not idiomatic.

          wanking = ā€œatt runkaā€

          I wanked = ā€œjag runkadeā€

          I had a wank = ā€œjag tog en runkā€, non-idiomatic. Youā€™d say ā€œjag runkadeā€. If you want to use a noun, ā€œjag drog en trallaā€.