Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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 facts of Awful youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    Ā·
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    he does seem to have carefully cultivated case of engineer disease

    also itā€™s not ā€œalmost allā€ preprints, itā€™s all preprints, just one repository calls these papers

    he didnā€™t discover yet predatory journals, it all could have been published for a small fee like with this one (contains mind numbing level of conspiracy-theoretic rambling and related brainworms) hxxps://uraniumisagenocidegiant[.]com/ (you have been warned)

    • V0ldek@awful.systems
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      Ā·
      5 months ago

      Thereā€™s one classified as ā€œSSRN Electronic Journal 2023 | Journal articleā€, I thought this was something like a predatory journal, hence the ā€œalmostā€, but now that I clicked on it I think this is just an arxiv-like website that calls itself an ā€œelectronic journalā€? No fucking idea.

        • V0ldek@awful.systems
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          Ā·
          5 months ago

          Amazing.

          I could ā€œpublishā€ my homeworks from the 5yrs of college onto arxiv and thatā€™d be a more scientifically valuable endeavour. Better formatted, too.