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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

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[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 27 points 11 months ago (6 children)

But… I mean, think of a bakery of all (straight) men.

Then think of the same bakery, but it's all (straight) women.

Then imagine the same bakery, but it's mixed sex.

Can you see what happens?

no, not really. bakeries you say?

Even if there's no attraction going on in the last case, the fact that there could be dramatically changes the unspoken dynamics. It's just not as stable as the other two.

Things like… if a man notices a female coworker struggling with a flour sifter, and he comes in one day with a device he purchased to help her out… it raises questions that just wouldn't have arisen if the two coworkers had been the same sex.

oh. ok. flour sifters, man, yeah, those things are crazy.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just can't get over the "struggling with a flour sifter" bit. Like ... what's there to struggle with? What accessory would help a person locked in combat with a flour sifter? Another flour sifter, to intimidate the first with the knowledge that it can be replaced?

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Because, Lana, I care about the fluffiness of my baked goods."

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 9 points 11 months ago

@blakestacey

“It’s a family heirloom, Lana. A 17th century zweihander flour sifter.”

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

felt like it started off relatively normal, gradually got weirder and more reactionary, and then the bakery bit was where it was clear this dude is from another planet. imagine a bakery... but with both men and women in it. imagine the roiling, all consuming sexual tension. fuck! we can't handle this

[–] m@blat.at 12 points 11 months ago

@sc_griffith It's true. The bakery just down the road has both male and female staff and it's really pretty inconvenient that every time I go in I have to ask if they'd mind taking a quick break from the constant fucking in order to serve me. And don't mention the time I asked if they had "a couple of nice floury baps for me".

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 9 points 11 months ago

@sc_griffith @Amoeba_Girl

I don't know, I worked at a Dunkin' Donuts when they still did baking in store, and there were male and female employees. I'm not saying there was NO fucking going on, but I wasn't lucky enough to witness any let alone participate.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 11 months ago

Sexual tension in a bakery was a plotline in season 1 of tuca and bertie.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

“with a device he purchased to help her out” is such an extremely load bearing sentence in there

The whole goddamn example is batshit, but that one really did it for me

It continues to amaze me these people are real

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm picturing some kind of flour-sifting Juicero-type smart device

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Its $700, looks like it was engineered by NASA and does the same amount of work as squeezing your hand?

[–] self@awful.systems 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

also, if you do this in a bakery you’ll probably get written up for violating food service regulations cause you brought in a random consumer-grade prep item that could’ve easily contaminated everything with bacteria or allergens. plus if you procure the item through work, everyone gets to use it instead of just you and the coworker you’re trying to fuck on top of a birthday cake???

but “I got written up for an obvious health code violation” hits a lot different from “woe is men, everything is sexual harassment now”

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 16 points 11 months ago

whenever I hear the "everything is sexual harassment now" from some of these fuckers I think of the joke:

"what's wrong?," asks the doctor.

"something bad - everything hurts" says the patient

"show me"

the patient touches their finger against their thigh, their foot, their neck, and their forehead - evidently wincing with every time

"...you have a broken finger" says the doctor

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 11 months ago

This has major “because of the implication” energy.

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

wait… does this chud think bakeries are gendered?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

nytpitchbot: first we had breadtube, now this ~~wingnut~~ thought leader wants to make people aware of breadsexuals

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dude had to specify everyone was straight to get this because yeah in the real world anyone could be attracted to anyone and yeah. Make everyone gay and the situation reverses.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago

it is well known that interpersonal conflict only happens between potential partners. and in bakeries.