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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 17 March 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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

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[–] self@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I learned about this because someone dragged a copy to aella’s birthday orgy and it showed up in one of the photos, but the rationalists have a cards against humanity clone and it looks godawful

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago

• came in a deck of cards

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Jesus wept, that one deserves a thread of its own. I can't remember the last time I winced this hard.

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

dear fuck I found their card database, which doesn’t seem to be linked from their main page (and which managed to crash its tab as soon as I clicked on the link to see all the cards spread out, because lazy loading isn’t real):

e: somehow the cards get less funny the higher the funny rating goes

e2: there’s no punchability rating but it’s desperately needed

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

imagine someone pulls this out and you have no idea what it is. you're kind of nervous and weirded out by the energy at this orgy but at least this will distract you. you look at your first card and it has a yudkowsky quote on it

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago

one of the data fluffers solemnly logs me as “did not finish” as I flee the orgy