Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026 - 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 - welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. 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 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. Also just came back from Spider-Man: Brand New Day, movie was awesome)

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.

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 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. Also celebrating my birthday on Friday)

  • BioMan@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Oh MAN… quote:

    Throughout this project, I was using Fable and Sol with very little restraint and under the (very affordable to me) $200/month subscription plans.

    [If you check out my Straude, I probably used $5,000 of tokens, but the actual subscriptions are $200/month.]

    Video is much more expensive: at Gemini Omni Flash’s current price of $0.10/second, it would cost $645.40 to generate this movie, but that would balloon massively to $5,146.10 when you add in the 45,007s of footage I generated which didn’t make the cut [The full details are that the final cut is 6,454s of runtime, made from 849 clips and the rejects are 5,509 clips with 45,007s of runtime, which means there are 6,358 clips in total with 51,461s of runtime. Thus only about 13% of the clips I made were included in the final cut.]

    Companies are STILL subsidizing video generation to hold people’s interests.