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)

    • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      First-ever criminal charges against financial services firms for market manipulation and “wash trading” in the cryptocurrency industry

      Cryptocurrency is a 15-year old industry built mostly on market manipulation and wash trading and now we’re seeing the first charges for it? Man, back in the day they told me doing crime was illegal.

      Deflationary

      With every transaction supply shrinks by burning a percentage of reflections to the burn wallet

      Turns out libertarians actually love taxes, but only if instead of spending the tax money on anything, it’s burned to waste.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      Fraudster: “the “objective on the secondary markets” is to find “other buyers from the community, people you don’t know about or don’t care about” because “we have to make [the other buyers] lose money in order to make profit.””

    • ShakingMyHead@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      Is this supposed to be a parody or something? If so, why is this being done at the direction of the FBI? Or is that also part of the parody? If so I didn’t know you could use the FBI logo for that purpose.