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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 17 March 2024 (awful.systems)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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As suggested at this thread to general "yeah sounds cool". Let's see if this goes anywhere.

Original inspiration:

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)

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to make it a post, there's no quota here

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[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Here that car seat post I was talking about

The best sneer is from the comments imo

Unfortunately, the genie is out of the bottle here. It would be political malpractice to liberalize these safety rules. The first child who dies or is critically injured after eliminating the post two year old requirements is a political disaster for whoever changed the rules

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Give people hope for the future. Climate change takes away people’s hope, so solve climate change to give them their hope back.

Can't argue with that. Why don't we just get on solving climate change, eh?

Edit: found the HN discussion, not positive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38709653

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This might be sacrilege, but HN sneers are my favorite sneers. Especially because snark is a dang-able offence

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

To be scrupulously fair, it's perfectly possible to construct vehicles that are both good at transporting multiple people and don't take up square miles of road. See the vehicle market in SE Asia as an example.

Or this segment, almost unknown in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_MPV

In fact, if more vehicles like this were available, it would be good both for Quiverful families and Earth-huggers! Alas the pickup truck will enable us to drive, one by one, to the Apocalypse.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

of fucking course it's a Zvi post

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

I didn't realize he was namebrand

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

10k words, checks out

[–] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago

Undisputable Champion of “Well ackshually”

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago

my man never should have stopped turning dragons sideways