Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 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.)

  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Double quick ssc sneer, why is he platforming a groyper, without mentioning it is a groyper, does he know what groypers are. Why is he acting like this is a honest question and not an attempt to create hierarchies and unpersons? Why are people confusing remembering being conscious with remembering things at all? Why are people confusing consciousness with agency? Why do I hear the ā€œempathy removal training centerā€ warning sound again. And the most personal question. People remember not being conscious? But yes, wtf Scott, how do you even find these groypers?

    Anybody have the current count on platforming neonazis vs platforming sneerclubbers?

    • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
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      2 months ago

      God this is so fucking stupid. Arenā€™t these people supposed to be at least minimally smart in some way, like knowing about biases and things? And here they are trying to suss out the deep workings of conscious experience from the just-so narratives people have attached to their memories of memories of memories. Pathetic.

      • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Comments comments

        I donā€™t recall having some sort of a wow experience like ā€œdamn, Iā€™m a conscious human beingā€ now ever, which kind of makes me question if Iā€™m conscious even now.

        Iā€™m also in the same boat. But also, I think that we can only experience consciousness with our whole being, and thereā€™s not much ā€œcomputeā€ and bandwidth left even amongst fully grown adults - to verify if even the baseline ā€œadultā€ consciousness that weā€™re experiencing is the baseline ā€œreal and complete adult state of consciousnessā€ that everyone is definitely experiencing. And so weā€™re left to ponder some subset of the thing we want to understand and control fully.

        I mean, the ā€œconsciousnessā€ that you and I experience, as adults, are almost certainly reduced or different compared to what, say, Scott experiences daily. Neither you nor I (nor most people) can write like Scott can, but Scott bangs out riveting and beautiful pieces of writing effortlessly at least once a week and wonders why everyone else canā€™t.

        Jesus Christ mate

        • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
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          2 months ago

          This is what happens when you watch Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as a STEM major with no actual curiosity.

          Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occured to you that you donā€™t go on forever. Must have been shattering. Stamped into oneā€™s memory. And yet, I canā€™t remember it. It never occured to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squawling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, theres only one direction. And time is its only measure.