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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.)

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12 points

This is extremely tangential to the areas of sneer interest, but seeing as this is the only technology related community I am in, I’m putting it here.

This song has been making the rounds on the charts/social media and I refuse to believe that it isn’t about the package management tool apt

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7 points

I hope Toni Basil and the Ting Tings get big royalty cheques.

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5 points

the writers of hey mickey have a writing credit on it, but the ting tings got shafted.

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A shame. Seems like they were clearly inspired by it … I guess you can’t copyright a vibe.

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9 points

yoooooooooooooo

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7 points

of course it is one in a long tradition of tech-tangential songs, including this banger about the inevitable collapse of tech bubbles

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3 points

I remember boten anna as a tech song example

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