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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 2 days ago (8 children)
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago
[–] JFranek@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

I'm "LIne storee" babyee.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The article's abstract made me die a hundred times

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

hey siri can you write me a nothing paper that combines two popular topics that are easy to bullshit about

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

kinda impressive that "Factor Fexcectorn" shows up twice, imagine how many credits were offered on the pyre of context management

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Factor Fexcectorn sounds like a Roman centurion who tried to improve the army's logistics by hitching multiple wagons together in sequence.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was thinking Factor Fexcectorn was the name of a furry OC, with an extensive backstory and a surprising amount of commissioned art. Fits in a fantasy or sci fi setting or both. Oh god am I writing an OC

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh god am I writing an OC

the ao3 submission form calls you forth

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

The Fexcectorns are a storied family of fox-unicorn hybrids NO STOP GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

also what in the cursed fuck is going on with the glyphs over the "meter" bars

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This artifact can bring bio med people on-side like nothing else.

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"K9: scom", just need to figure out what scom is.

But my favorite part is in the upper left, the brain that just says "Autism" and "Autism" around it.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] fnix@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

Wow. Quantum nature of autism confirmed. And people say the slop machines can’t do science...

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] JFranek@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

for years the human experience has vastly exceeded the codifications of mere simplistic scientist narrative, and it has long been known that the standard model was all wrong. in this essay I will

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm the left leg clipping through the table. Also, i like how x axis on lower left chart is out of order