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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

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  • If we knew that we wouldn't need a GPT-8 to solve quantum gravity, would we now?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Sorry to ask to dissect the frog, but what's the story behind Altman and olive oil?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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  • I never got much of a sense that Charlie would be open to have his own mind changed

    No way, really? Are you really doubting the professional nazi troll's desire to have his convictions challenged through good faith dialogue?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Damn, I was kinda hoping the Ladybird guy wouldn't turn out awful but nah, can't have shit in IT.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • I think "making up a guy to get mad at" is already an idiom as is.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • I still read xkcd regularly and think it's pretty good. I don't think "we" as a community need to have a particular opinion of Randall Munroe or his work but personally I think he seems alright and I enjoy the things he makes.

    Seems like a stretch to assume that comic does anything to recruit rationalists. If you're not already in the rat pipeline it's just a pretty good joke about probability and if you are, it's still a better example of Bayesian reasoning than whatever the rats pretend to do.

  • Big Tech Power Rankings

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  • When the "criti" for Amazon is just that it's "boring", I feel we're in plain old hype territory.

  • Rupert's Snub Cube and other Math Holes

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  • Yea I'm a gamer, my girlfriend is a doll of a cutie.

  • Rupert's Snub Cube and other Math Holes

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  • I love the subtle little deadpan gags tom7 always does in these videos. My favorite bit in this video is him casually pretending there are six CoD Black Ops games.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • I figured he'd be a lot better known for his YouTube career than for his bsky posting. I see his stuff all the time in my recommendations, though his style isn't my cup of tea so I seldom watch any of them.

  • Big Tech Power Rankings

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  • Oh good. If I ever need to consult a list of top slop shops sorted by fuckability, I'll try and remember this exists.

  • They really just be making stuff up

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  • Yes, we're losing a lot of money, but have you considered we will definitely make a lot of money tomorrow?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • Thanks man, I love being lumped in with fascists and pedos.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • First domino: US government invents peer review

    Last domino: Richard Stallman successfully kamikazes his reputation for good after multiple close attempts over the years

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • Imagine if it turns out that it wasn't even politically motivated and he just owed a bunch of money or something.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • Even in Luigi's case, it took days to catch a guy who (allegedly, lol) killed a billionaire in the middle of Manhattan. Though very dashing, Mangione hardly seems like a navyseal elite supersoldier ninja hitman 47 either. Whatever Kirk's killer's motive, I see little reason to assume it was necessarily a pro job. All this tells us is that overfunding and militarization doesn't equate to a more competent police force.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • Irrationally annoyed at yanks incorrecting each other how this kind of shot could only be pulled off by a trained expert sniper. The Behind the Bastards guy agrees, but the replies are still stuffed with examples.

    I know from experience that even mediocre conscripts shooting a gun for the first time in their life usually manage to land hits in a one foot diameter circle from 150 metres with iron sights on an intermediate catridge rifle. It doesn't take an elite marksman to hit a sitting man from 200 yards away, especially with a scope. Even if nervous and high on adrenaline, an average hunter, target shooter or (ex) military type would be more likely than not to hit a target of that size at that distance, assuming otherwise decent conditions.

    Hell, the factory sights on an M16 are supposed to be set for zero elevation at 250 metres and the effective range for most assault rifles and their semi auto civilian variants is around 300 metres. To say you need to be a trained sniper to make this shot is like saying you need to be a professional racing driver to do 80 mph on a highway.

    If there's one thing you'd assume seppos know well, it's shooting firearms, but some people still can't help but spout dumb bullshit.

  • Wireborn husbands, ELIZA effect, Clippy, empathy (ramble)

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  • We basically agree, then.