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

  • slopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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

    • Deborah@hachyderm.io
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      8 months ago

      So the non-peer reviewed pre-print making an eyebrow raising claim, without a breakdown of which states they claimed did or didn’t require child safety seats at which ages is totally sensible, but for the multiple studies showing child safety seats prevent deaths and serious injuries, “the controls are insufficient, in ways the main study examined does not need to worry about”. Uh-huh. My puny NPC brain can’t comprehend such rationality.

      • Deborah@hachyderm.io
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        8 months ago

        Oh ye gods and little fishes it gets better. So Zvi quotes the paper authors’ repeated citations to the two papers that claim car seats don’t save lives or prevent injuries. After enough repetition I noticed that one of them was “Levitt 2008”. And yes, the paper is Steven Levitt. The Freakonomics guy, whose entire brand is “misread statistics so I can publish a non-intuitive result and go on Meet The Press and write a NYT bestseller”.

      • slopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish
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        8 months ago

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

        • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
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          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.