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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 so 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.)

(OT: 🎶 Do you remember...)

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[-] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Just in case you thought Yud's attitude towards minors, sex, and substance use was worse than average for a Rationalist, the NYT asked around (archive):

Parties featuring psychedelic drugs and sharing of sexual partners are common, the people said. One house threw lavish events for the A.I. community so often that its owner claimed more than $200,000 of damage, including for a rodent infestation. ... The (Genesis) house (in San Francisco) quickly became a hub for events. Eric Zhu, 19, a tech entrepreneur, said he used to sneak into parties there when he was about 13. No one checked anyone’s age, he said, and “it was pretty crazy.”

They saw a police report where a woman says she had to climb a gate at one of these parties to escape a man who demanded she have sex with him. Sounds like a great environment for a seventh-grader!

Also features "Jimmy Chen, who goes by the social media handle 'Spice King of Zanzibar.'"

[-] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

The student who says he was attending these parties aged 13 seems to be the sperm race guy

[-] BioMan@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago

That is a formative age

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

Okay I have questions about the logistics of this that are not touched on in the article.

Namely, how do they synchronise cum

[-] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 1 points 1 day ago

On one hand I want to know, on the other hand learning about these people does not make me ready to ever be close to anyone again.

Mean scientists and reporters think the demo was fake https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/05/02/was-the-sperm-race-just-a-sticky-lie/

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Using the fun button in the backdoor, saw it on an episode of SVU* (edit: it may have been CSI)

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago

Dammit, people, sex and drugs were supposed to be cool

[-] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

Copying what other people tell you should like is not a good strategy whether the others are high-school bullies or a sex worker slash influencer. One of the bangers at the birthday gangbang found he had more fun making out with a strange woman than giving the birthday girl what she wanted and I hope he explored that.

[-] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago

I think it's a bit under-covered that the weird SF/Bay Area group-house scene has to be symbiotic with the housing shortage in the region. Even in my old hometown of Hayward, all the older 1950s-70s tract-home and mixed-density neighborhoods tend to have cars parked everywhere along the streets where a car could possibly be parked, because all these places that were designed as single-family homes are being used as multi-tenant rentals. I guess one underrated reason to support YIMBY is to strangle your local incipient cults.

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