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.

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

  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    heā€™s already easily covered under personal/research nonprofit use so he doesnā€™t have to care about any patents, itā€™s even opposite, he can use all patents all he wants np as long as thereā€™s no profits associated with it. he takes donations tho and idk if it qualifies. not that copyright is the biggest problem here

    i donā€™t think that whatever heā€™s doing will help transfolk cause too much, there already is some hormone supply and all heā€™s doing is bringing unwanted attention. i hope iā€™m wrong on this one

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      21 days ago

      I took the question to be a vit more broad than just be about patents, like sure that might not be a problem re a lawsuit you can lose, vut just fighting the lawsuits will be bad for people, and will the 4 vinegars offer any help for people who do this and get in trouble. This feels a bit centralize the fame and decentralize all the risk. Which will usually not end great for the people who have less privileges than the phd educated cis guy. I hope they thought more about this than just flipping people off (or worse, ā€œif somebody gets in legal trouble we can use that to promote our causeā€). But i tend to be a bit more paranoid than most.

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        20 days ago

        wouldnā€™t surprise me, but this would require them to have something workable in the first place. otoh even martin shkhreli didnā€™t do that