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 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.

Last weekā€™s thread

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

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    Orange site envrionmentalism:

    Lawns are functional though, they arenā€™t just a status symbol.

    I grew up with a mossy front yard, and I have clover and ferns in my current yards to compete with grasses; there are better options, my dude.

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      Weā€™re anti-grass lawns now? Fuck yes. I knew this place had potential.

      Iā€™m no landscaper so donā€™t quiz me on the options, but grass is in the lowest tier option for things to fill outdoor space with.

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        lawns in addition to other things are fine, but also all the stuff self said applies pretty hard

        weā€™re lucky in ZA that weā€™re pretty good with getting a lot of this stuff out, which Iā€™m often pretty happy about, but thatā€™s an incident of geography (and personal location)

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      They can be, but they can also be a social and recreational space.

      Your mumā€™s a social and recreational space, but I donā€™t see you going to bat for her despite being more useful

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      I was going to call them friendless losers who never had company over to play cornhole, have a bonfire, or lounge around on a hot summer day getting doused by a sprinkler while drinking beers because they are repugnant socially awkward cave trolls who are bitter and jealous of people who use their picturesque lawns.

      But I would never do that because that is neither civil nor polite.

      dang hates this one weird trick you can use to be an asshole in spite of the orange siteā€™s civility rules

      also what is that list of activities? did ChatGPT generate this? grass is required to play beep boop normal human games like cornhole now? youā€™re ā€œhaving a bonfireā€ on grass and not in something normal like a firepit thatā€™s safer on rocks or concrete? youā€™re just laying down on the grass, where the dog shits, slowly getting drunk and incredibly itchy from the grass as a sprinkler douses you?

      picturesque lawns

      oh maybe thatā€™s it, the only people Iā€™ve ever met with picturesque lawns are wealthy and wealthy people ainā€™t fucking normal

      Or you could just not water it, not fertilize it, not pesticide it and simply run the mower over it whenever the assorted vegetation (which will be mostly grass) exceeds a certain height.

      It wonā€™t look ā€œnice neighborhoodā€ nice but itā€™ll still be fine.

      i love when my yard is a giant mud patch rimmed by yellow with an occasional glimmer of green when the crabgrass blooms

      the orange site is absolutely populated by the type of shithead whoā€™s proud to be on their HOAā€™s board

      • self@awful.systems
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        having a lawn is so easy first just hire a gardener to come every week, second live in a place where tap waterā€™s inexpensive

        motherfuckers