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.)

  • blakestacey@awful.systemsOP
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    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sT5MX8jK9tHiBM5NK/re-taste

    A random walk, in retrospect, looks like like directional movement at a speed of āˆšn.

    No it doesnā€™t, you fools, you absolute rubes

    If you consider your normative values to be true, then everything looks like progress.

    wat

    Scott Alexander was a founding though-leader behind the Lightcone salon.

    Your future region of the spacetime diagram is inside a locker, nerd

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      Aaaah my eyes

      The Great City was built on a modular grid system designed to eliminate geography.

      This future doesnā€™t have hexagon city so I already hate it. Hexagons are the bestagons.

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        Hexagons are great, would love to see some hexagon based city plans. Especially if they have designed for walkability and public transport!

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          Heck yeah walkability!

          Also note how the author said the city transcends geography, as if geography was something useless or to be overcome by an advanced civilization (except for a bunch of artsy folks tucked away in a corner I guess?). But humans need variety. I would get so antsy if I lived in a perfect grid city with nothing out of order (or even a perfect hexagon city, no offense hexagons). There need to be paths and trails and rivers. There need to be trees and mountains in the distance.

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            Yeah weird thing to eliminate from a city, or weird thing to see without context. Basically: Wrongers try and envision a better world without deleting the parts of human experience that make it meaningful or worthwhile challenge (impossible)

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              The ideal wronger future after all is a simulation where human experience is deleted altogether!