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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)

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Crypto mining firms based in Sweden are accused of withholding around $100M in unpaid taxes.

Mostly VAT fraud.

News in Swedish: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/norrbotten/kryptoforetagen-lurade-staten-pa-en-miljard

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But your honor, we’re a crypto mining company; we don’t add any value!

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"Life, it never die

Women are my favorite guy."

Wonder what is up with the folks and them getting into rhymes/poetry. Jordan B Peterson does something simple (his pinned tweet as example here. But we know he fried parts of his brain using the russian coma rehab method.

And it isn’t even the Sinterklaas period yet. No need for bad rhymes. (I’m also suddenly reminded of all the people who tried to ‘rap’ their messages in the late 90s).

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Well my name is Jordan and I’m here to say/ we’re just like lobsters in a major way

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11 points

“cooked, and (politically) red as fuck”?

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It doesn’t even make any sense 😭 surely “secular religion” and “childless hedonism” are not the same thing??

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I can pull finer bars out my arse than this fucking farce

This is probably Grok - creativity from him’s pretty sparse

Choom thinks he’s DOOM, but he won’t beat him any time soon

With how much crack this whack goes through, he’ll forget this before noon

(I’m no MF DOOM, but anything I can put out will beat this artless twat any day)

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Religion is the opium of the masses

And I’m increasingly scared they’re gonna kick our asses

Maybe it’s time for all those mugs

To shut up and start hitting drugs

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poor Musky lost custody. Couldn’t handle Grimes, now he mangles rhymes.

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11 points

just imagining what happens the day his companies get taken away from him

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We’re gonna have enough material for a Elon diss track at this rate

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Kendrick Lamar has an opportunity to do the funniest possible thing

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US forest service cuts thousands of jobs. Not to worry, the bright hackernews are on it! just install an AI data center in the forest!. Seriously though, I can’t tell if this is brilliant satire or not.

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My read: sounds like a teenager that knows the touted functionality of the scam tech they are referencing, but is not wise enough to the ways of the world to know they are scams.

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Fuck, I didn’t need to be reminded that they named the robot Optimus. Was “Bender” or “Wall-E” too much of a deep cut? Or is it just that Disney’s trademark lawyers are scarier than Hasbro and Nvidia combined?

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12 points

guest star of recent sneers kache is at it again

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just imagine the kinda thinking that goes into even “I can make this post for fun, that’ll be a gas”

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Dude is about 3 years too late but I guess it’s always 8 o’clock in the outrage store.

For reference, HN went wild on this submission from a pretty obvious 4chan troll (the self-described “Black developer” just so happened to include references to a Stormfront post (since removed)):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26487854

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Update: The QRTs are mainly sneering, but this one’s particularly good

EDIT: Against my better judgment, I’m letting another sidenote come out:

If you wanna encourage people to drop the master/slave naming scheme, this guy probably gave you a good bit of ammo. Changing a random naming scheme is a pretty low-priority task under most circumstances, but it gets a lot more tempting when it lets you distance yourself from people like this

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I found the git master branch naming controversy a bit misguided, since to my mind the analogy was more “master copy” or “master recording” than “master of a slave”. This isn’t IDE. Who names their VCS branch “slave”?

Well, I guess that guy does.

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I found the git master branch naming controversy a bit misguided, since to my mind the analogy was more “master copy” or “master recording” than “master of a slave”. This isn’t IDE. Who names their VCS branch “slave”?

In a better world, this would’ve probably been a solid argument for letting the master/slave naming convention stick around. We don’t live in a better world.

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the thing is that the git branch naming was only one of the places among many where this was changed, and in many databases (and often other server-subsystem architectures) master/slave terminology was quite present. iirc there are still some that stick by it today (mostly out of direct choice by project maintainers)

it’s the same thing as whitelist/blacklist, vs allowlist/denylist (or others) - when there’s bad shit linked in baggage, and the cost of changing it (by habit and choice) isn’t all that much, there’s not really any reason to hold by the the old loaded shit

harm reduction comes in many forms

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This guy would be a lot happier if someone had given him a pound of weed when he was 12 then introduced him to college football fandom.

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Don’t drink and tweet people.

E: my reaction to the people saying ‘it is bait’

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