Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 19 May 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 cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • ebu@awful.systemsEnglish
    8·
    7 months ago

    If the house doesn’t have a roof, don’t paint the walls.

    i adore this line. because yeah, what i see the rest of the tech industry doing is either:

    • scrambling to erect their own, faster, better, cheaper roofless house
    • scrambling to sell furniture and utilities for the people who are definitely, inevitably going to move in
    • or making a ton of bank by selling resources to the first two groups

    without even stopping to ask: why would anyone want to live here?

    • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      thanks! I think I began saying that when I moved from digital marketing agencies to startups around 2011