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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Another fun one is to ask someone if they were to take off in an airplane from Miami and fly due south, which South American countries would they fly over?

The answer is none of them. You end up missing the entire continent because you are too far west.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You hit Panama first, but small portions of Ecuador and Peru are west of Miami (80.2 degrees west). The broader point that South America is much farther east than many Americans think is definitely true, though.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Does work for Tampa though

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

To expand on this idea: the most eastern part of the South American continent (Brazil) and the most western part of Iceland are only about 10° longitude apart. Meanwhile, Iceland shares lines of longitude with a number of countries in western Africa.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

???? ... da fuck??? .... I was going to correct you when you said "too far west"

Now my brain is broken :(