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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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we're not Nazis btw (awful.systems)

submitted 5 months ago by sc_griffith@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 54 points 5 months ago (5 children)

you would never see a scene like this in a Nazi household

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

note non-fiction Chekhov's gun on the mantel

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago

complete with the least stable-looking, most crooked display stand I’ve ever seen

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago

it kinda looks like turkish over/under, not very patrotic of them (cheapest in category)

[–] self@awful.systems 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

ok so this is driving me crazy

am I weird for thinking the circle of candles in the fireplace (in a house that’s allegedly unbearably cold) is weird?

[–] self@awful.systems 19 points 5 months ago

is this… are these motherfuckers roleplaying a dril tweet

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

It’s weird, but it’s normal weird. It’s the kind of thing you see in design magazines and pinterest and the spruce. I don’t know if actual rich people do it but it’s definitely fairly normal middlebrow home decor.

(A lot of fireplaces in older US buildings are vestigial, often blocked up, and are inefficient at heating.)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

it's also definitely the sort of shit you see in some midmarket airbnb's (because it's in design/pinterest/etc magazines)

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The prose on that The Spruce link makes me hate the concepts of design, aesthetics, and houses.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

"24 Ideas for Putting Candles in a Fireplace" sounds like a McSweeney's headline.

[–] maol@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago

Reaching through my screen into this photo so I can pull out the rifle and shoot myself

Who thought it would be a good idea to keep that in a household with 3 kids under 5. Is it just so they can flash it at Republicans and win primary votes??

[–] corbin@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

Fuck this hyperreal composition. Dalí is spinning in his grave.