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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 April 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 9 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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.

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I mean, full points for realising it's them

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand the logic behind the playlists in nightclubs.

(my emphasis)

that's your problem right there bud

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

As somebody who amateur DJ'ed (badly, very badly I must add, I'm not suddenly cool, more the reverse):

I don't understand the logic behind the playlists in nightclubs. IMO, the choice of music is often quite bad, it leans heavily towards repetitive EDM, the playlists could consist of far more interesting music

This is such a revealing thing. And the theorizing after it on why bars do this is even more revealing (he could have just asked). But yeah people don't go to bars for interesting new music, they come for the socializing, which is a lot easier if everybody can dance along with the music, or just nod along with it if it is more a socializing place. Sometimes there also isn't a plan but just 'we should get a DJ'.

The whole list is a collection of 'I have no empathy and I also never thought about asking people about these things' btw. I really hope this is a teenager.

[–] m@blat.at 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@Soyweiser @gerikson Plus the sets of "people who can DJ competently" and "people who are convinced that they should be allowed to DJ in public" do not, unfortunately, overlap completely.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago

Hey that one other metalhead at the bar really liked my dj style. Don't be a hater ;).

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to know what he thinks they should play.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

music that is interesting, obvies! like, y'know, maybe algoraves, or maybe things that use classical elements. unfortunately the idle masses would never go for such things, the goddamn proles!

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[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago

I guess he doesn't realize that everyone has a different idea of what music is interesting, and the big nightclubs have to go for the lowest common denominator in order to keep up sales.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

lmao i knew it was going to be a samuel barber remix before clicking that link, well done

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago

I kept with the "this has definitely seen mass consciousness" options to really hammer down the point ;D

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 4 points 8 months ago

@gerikson @dgerard Drugs. It's drugs.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I took psychic damage reading some of those replies (that's 3 of them)

hopefully the OP there can find more places to find experience and feedback from than r/ssc, though

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What's wrong with the weed advice? Seems reasonable enough to me.

The 2 page treatise on inequality which is primarily impotent faffing about from "first principles" definitely hurt me though

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago

the psychoactive effects are quite subjective (and no one-size fits all), so I find the stated-as-fact/certainty of tone there a bit of a waste

(it is also a very common enough thing in many communities of people that partake in psychoactives, but, yeah)