Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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.
(December’s finally arrived, and the run-up to Christmas has begun. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Edited it into a reply to Hanson now believing in Aliens, but seems like the SSC side of rationalism has a larger group of people also believing in miracles: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-fatima-sun-miracle-much-more (I have not in depth read the article, going by what others reported about this incident, there also seem to be related LW posts).
Read it a bit now, noticed that scott doesn’t know people who speak Portuguese and is relying on mt. (Also unclear what type of mt).
The long expected collapse of the rationalists out of their flagging cult into ordinary religion and conspiracy theory continues apace.
This does mean there is a potential future where the pope joins sneerclub