Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 26 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 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.

  • gerikson@awful.systems
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    6 months ago

    How is having an SDF account weird? Because itā€™s for olds? Or theyā€™re hardcore BSDers?

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      just fishy in aggregate. I wouldnā€™t say so much ā€œbecause for oldsā€ as ā€œitā€™s 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

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        6 months ago

        I mean I did fuck around on some public VAX hosted things and such in the early 00s, so itā€™s not impossible for this to be a true thing, but yeah. just smells off

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        6 months ago

        I agree that itā€™s fishy in this instance, but dig around in the ā€œsmol webā€ subculture (gemini protocol, etc) and youā€™ll find plenty of youngs who live in shellsā€¦ cf. tilde.town