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.

  • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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    8 months ago

    As somebody who amateur DJā€™ed (badly, very badly I must add, Iā€™m not suddenly cool, more the reverse):

    I donā€™t understand the logic behind the playlists in nightclubs. IMO, the choice of music is often quite bad, it leans heavily towards repetitive EDM, the playlists could consist of far more interesting music

    This is such a revealing thing. And the theorizing after it on why bars do this is even more revealing (he could have just asked). But yeah people donā€™t go to bars for interesting new music, they come for the socializing, which is a lot easier if everybody can dance along with the music, or just nod along with it if it is more a socializing place. Sometimes there also isnā€™t a plan but just ā€˜we should get a DJā€™.

    The whole list is a collection of ā€˜I have no empathy and I also never thought about asking people about these thingsā€™ btw. I really hope this is a teenager.

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      8 months ago

      @Soyweiser @gerikson Plus the sets of ā€œpeople who can DJ competentlyā€ and ā€œpeople who are convinced that they should be allowed to DJ in publicā€ do not, unfortunately, overlap completely.

        • maol@awful.systems
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          8 months ago

          I guess he doesnā€™t realize that everyone has a different idea of what music is interesting, and the big nightclubs have to go for the lowest common denominator in order to keep up sales.

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            8 months ago

            I kept with the ā€œthis has definitely seen mass consciousnessā€ options to really hammer down the point ;D