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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.

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  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.
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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait. Trains are great. Please invent more trains.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

No we need to make more trains. You only invent them once.

But the tech bros like to talk about self-driving cars, that drive on special self-driving car roads, that are only for self-driving cars. Yeah that's a train.

[–] antitomi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

I'm the consumer. Therefore I am always right. And I require more trains to be invented. Do you not want my money, or what?

Let's build self driving cars that go on special self driving roads that handle all the steering. To minimize fuel losses from friction while being long lasting, the wheels should be made of some kind of metal, and have a specialized shape to stay centered on the self driving road.

Heck, we could market this to trucking companies, with the low rolling resistance, they could hook a bunch of trailers together! Make some sort of a linked-cargo-hauler, that goes to special depots specifically for these extra long contraptions.

I'm so glad I alone thought of this.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those aren't trains. I don't give a shit if they want to use the word "invented" if it means we actually get trains.

Sure techbros. Be revolutionary. Invent the subway.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're missing the "but worse" part of the equation.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm not counting Elon's shit.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, Elon isn't the only one. There's been like a half dozen different times now that people have claimed to solve the self driving car issue by...putting cars on train tracks.

So trains, but worse in every way. Single occupancy, traffic congestion, motors on every pod, traditional rubber car tires, magnetic strips planted into a normal highway for computers to follow, etc. Every time, they've found a way to make trains but worse.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I feel like we can improve on that. Maybe these tech bros can innovate on these issues.