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.

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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    6 months ago

    love how the MS shill eventually reaches:

    Okay, hereā€™s a question; when has the casual consumer ever cared about privacy?

    • self@awful.systems
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      6 months ago

      every fucking time! and the answer seems to be: they care enough that privacyā€™s a core part of Appleā€™s marketing, but microsoftā€™s core competency is still managing Maslowā€™s hierarchy of needs enough that their users are on average just barely more inconvenienced by switching operating systems than they are dealing with whatever new shitā€™s being sprung on them (and this latest new shitā€™s gone from annoying to actively dangerous, so the tactic is to convince users itā€™s irrelevant to them until itā€™s made mandatory, as Microsoft does, and then the pain of suddenly switching operating systems will be even greater)