Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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.
(2026 is off to a great start, isn't it? Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
The simplenote post from a VibeCamp attendee claimed that "prior to Scott Alexander's articles on Desoxyn, virtually no one talked about microdosing methamphetamine as a substitute for Adderall," Any idea what post he was thinking of? Know Your Amphetamines - archive was from January 2021 so about the time VibeCamp got started.
The post is undated but mentions Hereticon in January 2022. Update: it links several more simplenote posts with statements like "It's 2022 as of the time of this writing" and "as of Mar 30 2022." The author lived in Austin when Aella was there. So it seems likely that the post about VibeCamp was written in 2022.
Update Again: the author posted to Substack under a meatspace name and linked "Know Your Amphetamines". I don't recommend reading the whole post, its just an unpleasant person with logorrhea unloading a stream of consciousness at unpleasant people.
yeah that's a classic
amazing
H2O2 is just water with an extra O.
Water 2.0, get on it or get left behind!
Rationalists 🤝 Postrationalists Writing screeds about how following the advice of Internet posts and self-medicating with controlled substances can be good if you are very smart