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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” 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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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      saw you already got two answers, another answer: mediumā€™s stupid popover blocker is based on a counter value in a cookie that you could can blow up yourself (or get around with instance windows)

      I am a very big fan of the Fx Temporary Containers extension

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        2 months ago

        I didnā€™t even know about the temporary containers extension. thatā€™ll be very useful for so much stuff. Thanks as well!

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          yeah for some reason itā€™s not very well known, which is why I tell people about it. Iā€™m 90% done with my months-ago-promised browser post, and should have it up soon

          couple last-minute irks came up recently as I was doing some stuff, so now Iā€™m trying to figure out whether those have answers or notā€¦