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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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

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12 points

I ended up on Know Your Meme because folks are throwing around TPOT like we’re all terminally online and all understand Twitter lingo.

For anyone else confused: that part of Twitter. It’s techbro “phillosophists” like Peter Thiel.

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8 points

If Marc Andressen gets in some sort of public trouble, could we call it the TPOT-Dome Scandal?

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5 points

Fuck lmfao 🤣

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5 points

it’s mean to make fun of marc andreessen’s superior brain pan sizing

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4 points

thought he was more of a brain deep dish kinda guy, given how comprehensively cooked he is

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10 points

Good that you explain it, lot of people here are basically amateur TPOT/lesswrong watchers so we forget this isn’t standard lingo. If you have ever seen us post about eigenrobot that is part of tpot iirc.

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what the heck is an eigenrobot??

Update: It is too late, Sneerclub, I have seen everything.

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8 points

i am so sorry

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4 points

What if cryptofasc weird but trying to be cute. (Revolutionary ikr).

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7 points

consadulations on being in today’s unlucky 10k

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13 points

yeah, TPOT is specifically the uwu smol bean neoreactionary race scientists

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11 points

I ended up on Know Your Meme because folks are throwing around “uwu” like we’re all terminally online and all understand Twitter lingo.

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15 points

looking up uwu on know your meme “uwu,” what is this

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