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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 ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ 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.

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    he does seem to have carefully cultivated case of engineer disease

    also it’s not ā€œalmost allā€ preprints, it’s all preprints, just one repository calls these papers

    he didn’t discover yet predatory journals, it all could have been published for a small fee like with this one (contains mind numbing level of conspiracy-theoretic rambling and related brainworms) hxxps://uraniumisagenocidegiant[.]com/ (you have been warned)

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      There’s one classified as ā€œSSRN Electronic Journal 2023 | Journal articleā€, I thought this was something like a predatory journal, hence the ā€œalmostā€, but now that I clicked on it I think this is just an arxiv-like website that calls itself an ā€œelectronic journalā€? No fucking idea.

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          Amazing.

          I could ā€œpublishā€ my homeworks from the 5yrs of college onto arxiv and that’d be a more scientifically valuable endeavour. Better formatted, too.