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 you’ll near-instantly regret.
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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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
you’re fucking right! my brain recombined that into a still wrong but slightly more sane claim when I first read it: “what if the packages you installed lose all their maintainers?” and, like, I think the only package manager that sometimes solves for that is Nix, and it solves it in the most annoying way possible (removal from nixpkgs and your config breaks, instead of any attempt at using an incredibly powerful software archival tool for intentionally archiving software (and it pisses me off that nixpkgs could trivially be the archive.org of packaging and it just isn’t, cause that’s not a murder drone))
but no, something about arch being relatively manually configured broke that poster’s brain into thinking that arch of all things didn’t have basic package management functionality, somehow. arch, the linux for former BSD kids too exhausted to deal with compatibility. nah, only red hat knows about, uh, basic software maintenance