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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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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.

Last week’s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Welcome to the club. They say a shared suffering is only half the suffering.

This was discussed in last week's Stubsack, but I don't think we mind talking about talking the same thing twice. I, for one, do not look forward to browsing Wikipedia exclusively through pre-2024 archived versions, so I hope (with some pessimism) their disapponintingly milquetoast stance works out.

Reading a bit of the old Reddit sneerclub can help understand some of the Awful vernacular, but otherwise it's as much of a lurkmoar as any other online circlejerk. The old guard keep referencing cringe techbros and TESCREALs I've never heard of while I still can't remember which Scott A we're talking about in which thread.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Scott Computers is married and a father but still writes like an incel and fundamentally can't believe that anyone interested in computer science or physics might think in a different way than he does. Dilbert Scott is an incredibly divorced man. Scott Adderall is the leader of the beige tribe.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

Scott Adderall

You Give Adderall A Bad Name

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

shit wasn’t there another one

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is always another Scott.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you know, one of the most abusive shitty people I’ve ever personally known was also a Scott

Montgomery Scott clearly statistical anomaly

Ah, but he's not really a Scott so much as a Scot, and a Monty to boot.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

oh you did better than I did

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