Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025 - awful.systems
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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. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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.

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

  • fullsquare@awful.systemsEnglish
    4Ā·
    2 days ago
    Now, this is clearly a repugnant market. Repugnant market is a market where some people would like to engage in it and other people think they shouldnā€™t. (Think market in human kidneys. Or prostitution. Or the market in abortions. [ā€¦])

    i consent/i consent/ i donā€™t!!

    lol who asked them? stop the presses, homegrown techbro has an Opinion! also when you use up drones itā€™s only natural that youā€™ll need new ones. even observation drones go down all the time, and rewarding certain targets is just making sure that drones donā€™t get blown up on stupid shit, so this is government specifically incentivizing what would be most important targets to them, on top of regular rules of engagement and more specific orders. this one seems to be meant as supplementary program that also, or even primarily, makes nice videos for propaganda

    Introducing a market system, on the other hand, allows the lower-level units to take calculated risks. Destroy that many enemy units and you can buy, say, an armored vehicle, that improves your safety. Friction gets greatly reduced.

    these are drones for drone kills, nothing else. biggest thing iā€™ve seen is that some units get donations from their drone videos, and used these to get a car or jammer or more drones, but never APC or anything like that, itā€™s too big deal and too expensive, and drone operator is unlikely to benefit from APC anyway

    No side gets an advantage when both sides use it. Then thereā€™s no point in using it in the first place.

    wtf? if using a thing gives you advantage over not using a thing, then you use it, if both sides are using a thing then itā€™s just red queen race. lots of current war looks like it even if frontlines are static

    But markets, unlike, say, chemical weapons, are not directly visible on the battlefield. Each side would suspect the other of using them despite the ban and might try to secretly use them as well.

    and this changes what exactly? all it will cause is slight preference in targeting because thereā€™s only so many drones to be given out, and drone operator has to do the everything else part of their job. dogshit reasoning