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.)
Alex OāConnor platformed Sabine on his philosophy podcast. Iām irritated that he is turning into Lex Friedman simply by being completely uncritical. Well, no, wait, he was critical of Bellās theorem, and even Sabine had to tell him that Bellās work is mathematically proven. This is what a philosophy degree does to your epistemology, I guess.
My main sneer here is just some links. See, Maryās Room is answered by neuroscience; Mary does experience something new when color vision is restored. In particular, check out the testimonials from this 2021 Oregon experiment that restored color vision to some folks born without it. Focusing on physics, Iād like to introduce you all to Richard Behiel, particularly his explanations of electromagnetism and the Anderson-Higgs mechanism; there are deeper explanations for electricity and magnets, my dude. Also, if you havenāt yet, go read Alexās Wikipedia article, linked at the top of the sneer.
In the case of OāConnor and people like him, I think itās about much more than his philosophy background. Heās a YouTube creator who creates content on a regular schedule and makes a living off it. Once you start doing that, youāre exposed to all the horrible incentives of the YouTube engagement algorithm, which inevitably leads you to start seeking out other controversial YouTubers to platform and become friendly with. Itās an āIāll scratch your back if you scratch mineā situation dialed up to 11.
The same thing has happened to Sabine herself. Sheās been captured by the algorithm, which has naturally shifted her audience to the right, and now sheās been fully captured by that new audience.
I fully expect Alex OāConnor to remain on this treadmill. <remind me in 12months>
What getting c*cked by Mikhaila Peterson does to a mfer.