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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 8 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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[–] jax@awful.systems 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

tired: learning from others through the wealth of experiences and resources that are widely available

wired: taking a "first principles" approach to endangering and traumatising your own child

I was at the apartment pool chatting with a friend who is a very advanced swimmer - the type that swims laps seemingly endlessly - and she asked “have you ever seen what would happen if [your two year-old son] fell in the pool?”. I said no, and then she suggested I try it so that I would at least know. So I picked him up and with no warning tossed him in. He immediately froze under water, arms and legs outstretched in literally stunned silence. I counted to 5 and pulled him out and he was trembling with fear.

At that point I realized that the time it takes for a kid to drown is one breath. That may be 3 seconds, may be 10 seconds.

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 11 points 8 months ago

@jax @dgerard

"I literally shared that story with every close friend I have"

And they all said "what the fuck would you do that for?"

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago

Bean Dad but instead of a can opener it’s swimming/not drowning

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

HN Parenting Pro-tip: Chuck your kids into the pool, keep 'em sharp. Sure they might drown, but at least they won't trust you after they make it back to land.

[–] maol@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

Oh my gahhhhd. "Most child abuse is committed by family and friends, so why not commit some abuse against your child?"

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago

what the fuck

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

one of my few childhood memories is some dipshit fuckwad at a family-friends event who, upon learning that I hadn't ever gone/tried swimming, decided all upon their lonesome to throw me into the pool

unfortunately I only recall the general event, and not who it was.

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

Reminds me of this bloke's approach to teaching swimming.

[–] korydg@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

Something like that happened to me at a similar age (won't go into details) and I never got over my dislike of going into pools and the ocean and learning to swim (which I never have).

[–] raktheundead@fedia.io 4 points 8 months ago

As somebody who fell into the deep end of a pool when I was younger of my own accord and took a decade or so to learn how to swim after that, I can say that's the sort of thing that's gonna fuck that kid up badly. Even today, I'm not entirely comfortable in the water.