Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting 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 Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
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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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
well, it’s not the most obvious thing but not because it’s easy, it’s because it’s almost a trivia, a sort of thing you can see once in textbook and then never use it ever for anything and that doesn’t really connects readily to anything else, most of the time. i haven’t done electrocyclic reaction once in my entire phd programme, and last time i’ve seen them was in second year ochem course. these kinds of reactions are not very controllable or clean, synthesis of precursors looks like a major PITA, precursors would probably have to be kept in freezer under argon for maybe days before they decompose, and introduction of any modifications requires you to redo multistep synthesis, and then it might fail to work. i also suspect that this exact example might be in some undergrad textbook verbatim, and it will be in scihub pdfs at any rate. it’s also kinda old stuff with research starting in 60s
Oh yeah I meant “easy” in the sense of “maybe it can get it right from sheer chance by pattern matching training data from the interwebs”
i’d say it was made easy for machines in that wisdom woodchipper would “randomly” stumble upon correct answer while scraping everything related to more general topic, while it’s made harder for humans because it’s rather obscure