Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

    • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
      15·
      22 hours ago

      Tim Burners-Lee

      (snerk)

      From elsewhere in that thread:

      The physics of the 1800s had a lot of low hanging fruit. Most undergrads in physics can show you a derivation of Maxwell’s equations from first principles, and I think a fair few of them could have come up with it themselves if they were in Maxwell’s shoes.

      Lol no

      • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        8·
        16 hours ago

        old lecturer at my maths-for-chemists* course used to say something like this before exam: “Please don’t try to invent new maths, I won’t stop you of course, but it’s a sign of great hubris to think that you’d outdo three thousand years of development in four hours. Just learn beforehand, it’ll be easier”

        * a bit of linear algebra and calculus, just enough to get absolute basics of group theory as needed in spectroscopy and to solve one-electron Schrödinger equation for intro to computational chemistry