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 cutānāpaste it into its own post, 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.
GNU+Linux user just wonders whether medical technology is bad for humanityās long term survival because hereditary diseases can be survived and spread, but wouldnāt want anyone to misunderstand.
Itās nice to know we have looped back to the point in history where we casually consider which people should have agency over their reproductive rights. Oh wait, no itās not nice at all, but somehow still totally acceptable and commonplace.
Grim stuff in that thread.
Sorry, im a habitual contrarian about this movie (good for that poster that they commit to not do an idiocracy and use tools that helps people, for example searching for the name of a movie), but reminder that that movie is basically utopian as it takes place 500 years in the future, and the American way of life is still going strong, and the problem of the food crisis is basically solved in a week.
I think that the movie is just a shallow criticism of Bush-era conservativism and 90s ātrash TVā (that was already in decline by this time). Interrogating the implications of its scifi premise feels like not meeting the movie where itās at, which is an optimism (alien to me) that the USA is fundamentally sound and only needs a nominally reasonable Joe American to keep the levers of power away from Those Guys.
It is. It isnāt that deep I know, just wanted to point out a small thing which the people who hyperfocus on the semi-eugenics argument seem to always miss in the ācbt (link SFW, some links on that page are not however) is funnyā movie.
Also someone bringing up āpopulation collapseā which is a recent(?) right-wing/techbro trope. Everything about everyone expressing worries about āsub replacement birth ratesā screams āwe must prevent people with wombs from making their own decisions about whether to have kidsā.
A good portion of online rw politics is just a desparate cry for pussy blanketed with callous dogma.
I donāt know anything about evolution or genetics, and Iām pretty sure this guy doesnāt either. Why would everyone become disabled because more disabled people survive and pass on their genes to their kids? We donāt stone gingers to death and yet we are not all having red-headed kids.
The repeated use of the word āweakā (as opposed to āsickā or ādisabledā) seems revealing.
I canāt say for sure that he thinks of genetics as bloodlines, and is concerned about its purity, but I can have my suspicions.
extremely weird shit across the board from that user. account claims to be ā18Mā and running āmanjaro and mintā, and then has a shell on sdf.org? along with the posts, āYes, Iād prefer not being resuscitated. If I am finally dead, let it stay that wayā just from that thread (and a number of other choice entries elsewhere in their history)
like come the fuck on, can it be more sus
How is having an SDF account weird? Because itās for olds? Or theyāre hardcore BSDers?
just fishy in aggregate. I wouldnāt say so much ābecause for oldsā as āitās far more likely for old(er)s to want something like thatā. combine that with the wide array of other posts the account has engaged with, and the bio just wholly looks like bullshit to me
I mean I did fuck around on some public VAX hosted things and such in the early 00s, so itās not impossible for this to be a true thing, but yeah. just smells off
I agree that itās fishy in this instance, but dig around in the āsmol webā subculture (gemini protocol, etc) and youāll find plenty of youngs who live in shellsā¦ cf. tilde.town
Oh yeah, I know about those :) it was more specifically about this exact instance indeed