Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
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 soo 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.
The MIT alum in me wants to devise some variation on “Building 20” that conveys a “but without the worse aspects of MIT subculture” kind of message.
“Demolishing 20”
Einstürzende Zwanzig
Now I hope all the dumb MIT subculture jokes actually exist on student forums, where they belong. Because I can’t stop thinking of them now that you’ve got me started.
* Stata because none of our angles will be right angles.
* Course Six Sigma
* Infinite Sneeridor
Oh god I have to stop before I get to all the “Beaver” jokes.
Six Double Oh Eww
I originally wanted “freeasinbothpieces”, which sums up the idea precisely, but five words is a bit much even with camel case
That could be the hostname for the forge instance(s)
Or the backups
“MIT-style culture but not run by the worst people you know” is exactly the kind of thing I’d like to convey
e: also, implicitly, without the shit bigotry hiding under the surface that those worst people imbued the culture with
So, Harvey Mudd?