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 here 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.

  • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Guy who was previously featured here for championing the merits of dropping the n-word when meeting new (white) people in order to judge them worthy had an extensive twitter rant about how scott alexander may be an actual prophet, while quote-twitting another similarly afflicted person.

    If you bother, which I barely did, this is what you’re in for:

    Trace says Scott has given up his will to power. but it’s not a giveaway, it’s a trade: if you don’t seek power you retain the ability to seek unpolluted truth. here’s this tradeoff explained by Curtis Yarvin, another reluctant prophet, whom Scott has definitely read:

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  • Mii@awful.systemsEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    I’m actually at a loss of words for this. What the actual fuck …

    From here. The article is pretty interesting, though.

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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        9 months ago

        holy fuck hetzner what in the fuck are you doing. please stop having the lowest tier of the abuse team try to trick the woem.men admin into accepting the shit non-apology legal drafted as a way to try and head off a lawsuit. nobody cares that your PR department got inconvenienced by the strong public response to this (in fact, it’s a good thing)

        go and very publicly commit to making policy changes that’ll protect LGBTQ+ folks or fuck off. shit in a way that’ll be legally expensive and embarrassing if you don’t follow through or get off the fucking pot. having your low-level IT staff pretend you’re Some Guy LLC is a bad fucking look. we all know the guy whose only job is to send threatening emails and press the “close account” button doesn’t have any power to do anything of substance. why in fuck is that guy still in the woem.men admin’s inbox making demands?

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
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      9 months ago

      AWS: you will pay. also, shit works. also, you get customer service.
      Azure: you’re running Windows, you hate yourself, probably both
      Google: you have transcended beyond such earthly requirements as “customer service” or “functions that don’t get deprecated in three years”
      Hetzner: you run a herd of carefully groomed pets and not cattle
      OVH: wot is dis “uptime” ov which u speek
      Oracle: lol
      Some Guy LLC: I would rather sign up with Oracle

      • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Azure is great and doesn’t require you to use Windows. I will not stand for such slander.

        Also I love how literally no one can remember that IBM also has a cloud.

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Azure is great

          what kind of enterprise hell is your daily life, for you to enjoy such curses as azure? :D

          • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
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            9 months ago

            I hosted a single Linux VM on the free student’s subscription and didn’t hate it.

            AWS was a nightmare on the other hand. At least a VM on Azure is called an Azure VM and not Elastic Rubber Evolution 2: Blue Artemis Service.