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froztbyte

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024

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awful.systemsStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024 - awful.systemsNeed to make a primal scream without gathering 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 facts of 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 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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Jonathan Hendry

@dgerard

I don't understand the hate for transition lenses. You don't have to get them in frames last fashionable in 1982.

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gerikson

I guess the point is the dude won’t have lasik.

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David Gerard

transition lenses = photochromic lenses

(i thought for a moment it was another term for varifocals, but no, Transitions is a company that makes photochromic lenses)

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gerikson

Duh, my bad. I thought it was something like varifocals too.

Photochromic lenses were a nerd staple when I was a teenager. Dunno if/how popular they are now.

Wholly Weak

@gerikson @dgerard I'm about to take delivery, next week, of my new photochromic varifocals

If you're thinking "sounds cripplingly expensive", you'd be right. Don't get old

Jun 28, 2024, 01:14 PM·Public·Web
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David Gerard

i am the guy of that age, and i would never get anything else, and yes fuck they are

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