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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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[-] shapeofquanta@lemmy.vg 1 points 11 hours ago

Could I ask you a question I’ve always wondered about the translation business? Why do people send in machine translation asking for cleanup and even expect it’ll cost them less?

Maybe I’m ignorant, but the way I see it, great machine translation tools are widely and freely accessible to anyone. If I needed professional translation done, I wouldn’t think copy-pasting a document into Google Translate – something that takes literal minutes – would get me any type of discount. It just doesn’t make sense to me.

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