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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 28 July 2024 (awful.systems)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Libertarian nerds run straight into actual California, not the AI-generated dreamland they imagine

Mercury news: "Billionaires’ utopia company California Forever scraps plan for ballot initiative in wake of damning report"

https://archive.ph/UbdBw

The report released late last week by Solano County said the proposed new city of 50,000 — possibly up to 400,000 decades from now — would likely cost the county billions of dollars and create substantial annual financial deficits, while slashing agricultural production, damaging climate-change resilience, and potentially threatening local water supplies. The project, according to the report, “may not be financially feasible.”

HN shows what they think of the 3 people with actual thoughts on the issue by downvoting them to death

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41047746

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

which spent more than $800 million buying more than 60,000 acres of mostly agricultural land near Fairfield

Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman, just in case anyone thought there was a difference

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

NASBLOL (I'm not sure this abbreviation will work out): "Investors in anti-Biden cryptocurrencies are getting absolutely destroyed." (Source)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Butters and Trump are ruining my ability to get anything done in town today. Not a big fan of this dumb shit inconveniencing me IRL.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not familiar with Indian politics but I'm curious if anyone understands what this site is or what its politics are https://democracycollective.in (I'm just nosy and curious, I saw this pop up out of nowhere)

Though maybe I already have an idea:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can read a blog post from the dude who started that site here: https://rushabh-mehta.medium.com/starting-a-new-political-party-28a2e70cc8c3 I didn't spot any huge red flags, but I didn't dig too deep (nor do I know the first thing about Indian politics).

Apparently he aims to start an online political party without any leaders or hierarchy where everything gets voted on. Not to be too cynical, but looking at how small it is right now I imagine they won't get far enough to see why that doesn't really work.

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