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 youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy Pride :3)
Please let me commiserate my miserable misery, Awful dot Systems. So the other day I was flirting with this personāleftie, queer, sexy terrorist vibes, just my typeāand asked if they had any plans for the weekend, and they said like, āwill be stuck in the lab trying to finish a report lolā. They are an academic in an area related to biomedicine, I donāt want to get more specific than that. Wanting to be there for emotional support I invited them to talk about their research if they wanted to. The person said,
āOh I am paying for MULTIPLE CHATGPT ACCOUNTS that Iām using to handle theā, I swear to Gods Iām not making this up, āMATHLAB CODE, but I keep getting basic errors, like wrong variable names stuff like that, so I have to do a lot of editing andā¦ā. Desperate emphases mine.
And at this point I was literally speechless. I was having flashbacks of back in 2016 when it was this huge scandal that 1 in 5 papers in genetics had data errors because they used Microsoft Excel and it would āsmartlyā mangle tokens like SEPT2 into a date-time cell. The field has since evolved, of course (=they threw in the towel and renamed the gene to SEPTIN2, and similarly for other tokens that Excel gets too smart about). I was having ominous visions of what the entirety body of published scientific data is about to become.
I considered how otherwise cool this person was and whether I should start a gentle argument, but all I could say was āhaha yeah, mathlab is hardā.
I feel like a complete and utter blowhard saying this, but now that I told you the story I have no other choice but to blurt it out: I am no longer flirting with this person.
Was mathlab where they did the forensics for MathNet?