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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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!

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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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Well of course, it is automated.

Wait, you did automate this right?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i'll have you know all our sneers are posted artisanally

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

each sneer is drafted and redrafted for at least thirty hours prior to exposure to the internet, but in truth, that's only the last stage of a long process. for example, master sneerers often practice their lip curls for weeks before they even begin looking at yud posts

[–] self@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

it’s only a service account and a couple lines of bash away! but not automating for now makes it easier to evolve these threads naturally as we go, I think, and our posters being willing to help rotate and contribute to these weekly threads is a good sign that the concept’s still fun.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“I was there for the stubsack” is also definitely something you can get on some niche shirts that very few would get

the best kind

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago

class SneerFactoryFactory

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

and note how the text slightly evolves with time too

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

I have been! Wanted to do it with mine but didn’t have the headspace to make it so. soon.gif