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 you’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 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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this, and happy new year in advance.)
you’d expect that active duty green beret would know how to make a bomb, especially after seeing these things in afghanistan, but no. (containment like pressure cooker works only for low explosives, because burn rate depends on pressure. this is common knowledge among some gun owners, particularly those that reload their own cartridges. proper high explosives don’t need that, any kitchenware and pieces of cybertruck would just add to fragmentation. one could expect that any highly trained soldier should know this too)
but hey, maybe taking info from different places and combining it in novel ways just isn’t his thing. he wouldn’t get there in the first place if it was