Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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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.)
Techbro leaves suspicious package unattended at davos, gets carted off by the police, swiss security folk mock his technical ignorance.
https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/22/tech-dude-davos-bomb-lookalike-device/
Wait what xD
I'm sorry, so what the fuck was this entire charade for, why did you have actual wires and boards if the thing wasn't even supposed to work. What are you doing man.
In some sense this is very emblematic of techbro culture - I have a box that is presenting like a tech device and has "code" inside, even though it doesn't actually do anything I'd like a million dollars.
Do not war for centuries
Remain absolutely savage
That this is even possible is quite something, that he didn't even think about how stupid this would look is also amazing, he will go far as a tech ceo.
"These wires, c4, and plutonium? I need them for my tech prototype"
Fun detail I once heard, if you take a block of Brunost with you on an airplane, you might get into trouble because the scanners think it is c4.
this is just PUF? what new thing he thinks he's doing
Oh, that’s easy. His product,