Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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.

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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    9 months ago

    we’re looking for a sneerious name for a collaborative design/programming community for non-dickheads, like hacker news but not shit. thread your suggestions here!

    • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I’m feeling uncreative but it’s a shame giggle academy is taken

      “painter news” could be a nice jab at PG’s “Hackers & Painters”

      • jonhendry@awful.systemsEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Just to confuse things design a logo that references both Margaret Hamilton from NASA and Margaret Hamilton the Wicked Witch actress. Maybe a woman flying on a NASA rocket-propelled bicycle, but maybe not because the slow and judgey might think that’s calling NASA Hamilton a witch.

        Actually referencing a non-technical woman might even help repel HN types.

      • Deborah@hachyderm.io
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        9 months ago

        Now I hope all the dumb MIT subculture jokes actually exist on student forums, where they belong. Because I can’t stop thinking of them now that you’ve got me started.

        * Stata because none of our angles will be right angles.

        * Course Six Sigma

        * Infinite Sneeridor

        Oh god I have to stop before I get to all the “Beaver” jokes.

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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        9 months ago

        “MIT-style culture but not run by the worst people you know” is exactly the kind of thing I’d like to convey

        e: also, implicitly, without the shit bigotry hiding under the surface that those worst people imbued the culture with

        • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Nah it’s masturbation in Swedish.

          More specifically, “en runk” is analogous to “a wank”, but it’s not idiomatic.

          wanking = “att runka”

          I wanked = “jag runkade”

          I had a wank = “jag tog en runk”, non-idiomatic. You’d say “jag runkade”. If you want to use a noun, “jag drog en tralla”.

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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        9 months ago

        GNU/Scrotum is a great name for a lemmy fork, but Richard’s copyright lawyers would probably sue me and the settlement terms would involve him eating his foot skin on my couch and leeching off of my wifi from his 2004 laptop for 12-24 months

        • jonhendry@awful.systemsEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Are you sure he limits it to his foot skin?

          Play your cards right and you could put him to work like one of those fish that eat dead skin off feet as part of a pedicure.

          Apropos of nothing, does Stallman still request access to a parrot? It’d be funny to find him a place to stay with a person whose parrot is trained to talk shit about Stallman. “KWOK! SHUT UP ABOUT HURD!”

        • Deborah@hachyderm.io
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          9 months ago

          You can deflect him with an inexpensive cleric spell (somatic components: broccoli and a copy of Microsoft Windows).