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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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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

While I support the intent, I've personally found that:

  1. Half the time the company either doesn't exist off Amazon or uses Amazon for their order fulfillment.
  2. See #1
  3. Price frequently ends up being mostly the same. I'm not sure if this is due to something that Amazon forces on companies, so they may have no choice.
  4. Shipping ends up being expensive and is definitely not in 2 days, more like 6-10.
  5. Spot on and perhaps still worth it for this reason alone.

I just try to buy what I can locally and avoid the larger companies that are all pretty disgusting. While Bezos is definitely the richest and most evil, make no mistake that the other companies would be in his place in a heartbeat if they could.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Or - as a Canadian - they DO have an online store but it doesn't ship here :-(

[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was going to say the advice in the meme in kind of dumb. I can order the same product on Amazon or the website of the product, but on Amazon returns are super easy, shipping is overnight, and I am not dealing with some weird 3rd party payment system.

Now if the product is made locally at a small business, and is similarly priced, then absolutely, that's my preferred way to do things.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 14 hours ago

Yes, I don't ever shop with Amazon, but they use their massive anti-competitive scale to be the most convenient option.

I simply reject that convenience, because fuck Amazon. Fuck billionaires. Fuck executives. And fuck shills.

I'll just pay $10 more and wait an extra week for my toaster. This is nothing compared to shopping in the 90s.