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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Sorry this wasnāt up earlier, I couldnāt connect to awful.)
These doofuses never actually think through their thought experiments. Quoting from a dead thread half a year ago, where he was downvoted but not yet identified:
Okay, but first surely he can recognize that humanity is already multicultural and multispecies? Like, in a non-specious sense, weāve incorporated many mammals, birds, plants, fungi, etc. into our daily lives and canāt really separate them out at this point. Sure, thereās some ineffable and beautiful relationship between humans in general which we want to preserve, but before worrying about whether robots should join in, we should first notice that thereās already an expansion of that relationship to include e.g. face mites, and thereās no sense in which face mites are a Worthy Successor to whom we should cede all managerial decisions. (I was gonna say ācatsā, but I know plenty of yāall would rather have a cat in charge than a human, and youāre not wrong.)