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.

Last weekā€™s thread

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

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    Look out, professional Nix crybaby Jon Ringer is back with his fork.

    In other news, I have my own as well called Borkfan, absolutely not a ban fork due to my having threatened multiple people, but instead dedicated to the idea that a technology that lacks chud approval must necessarily not be in the true hacker spirit.

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      literally the exact crowd shitting on the mere rumor of a Lix NixOS fork are clapping for this like trained seals. and I donā€™t think this getting announced right after those rumors is an accident ā€” it gets Jon the most attention for his low-effort bullshit and might even let him hurt another fork by way of community fragmentation

      something Iā€™m confused about is, is Ringer even effectively banned anymore? I stopped monitoring when someone with mod privileges unbanned him from a bunch of Nix community spaces. is he back to banned, or is this just a continuing tantrum from Jon having Release Manager stripped from him and given to someone who could do that incredibly thoroughly automated job without stirring up a fucking hate mob?

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        Is their branding dominated an anime girl of ambiguous age?

        Just guessing, I promise I havenā€™t checked.

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        there is one silver lining: for once, I donā€™t have the cognitive load of another Nix fork to carefully consider switching to. thereā€™s no way in fuck Iā€™m using Ringerā€™s fork under any circumstances, and my brain already filed it away under ā€œweird name, starts with an E, donā€™t remember the restā€ seconds after I closed the tab

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          Youā€™re right, Borkfan is too easy to remember, my not-ban fork is now called Frabnok.

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            > FRABNOK LANTERN
            
            Your lantern explodes into a rant about the wokes, killing you instantly.
            
            *** You have died ***
            
            Your score is 0 out of a possible 10 points, in 1 move. This gives you the rank of Release Manager.