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.

Last week’s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this - this one was a bit late, I got distracted)

  • o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish
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    26 days ago

    There should be some kind of mic-drop Hall of Fame to put this in, or maybe just nail it to the chemistry building’s front door Martin Luther-style. Holy shit.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      26 days ago

      there’s more, but i hit character limit

      for example, lol i completely missed that first time around. notice this bit where you’re supposed to add acid in small portions in aniline synthesis and how it can get too energetic? (you can also do it another way, add all acid at once and pour iron powder in small portions. but it’s more annoying because iron powder sticks to wet condenser, that is part where it’s easiest to pour it) well, spicy autocomplete tells you to dump everything at once. if you get burns from boiling concentrated hydrochloric acid after following chatgpt procedure, it’s on you i don’t know what to expect from it. another footgun

      and it doesn’t even have enough detail in the first place. where are expected yields, melting points, accurate amounts of everything incl solvents. how are you supposed to grade it, usually yield and purity are taken into account (inferred from melting point range or boiling point range)