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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm elder millennial and remember when gasoline switched from leaded to unleaded. I think GenX got exposed to the historical maximum of leaded gas fumes (in the US)

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nah, that's boomers.

Most countries cut out leaded petrol for good when x'ers were rolling around their teens / early 20's, boomers copped it their entire lives well into middle age. The famous reduction of violence when it started getting cut? Wasn't gen-x'ers doing that shit in the 70's.

I've often suspected it's why we're seeing older generations get batshit as rhey age. Lead can be uptaken into bones, and leach back out as the bone degrades. Like, say, with age

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There's been a few studies that have been looking into the effect of lead in the environment and its effects on mental acuity as the person gets older. It's not a wide confirmation but the start that as Boomers get older, they are literally going insane from lead.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Okay now do why Gen Z men in particular are following the exact same dead end path despite 0 lead.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Con artists are the only ones courting them.

Know that quote from Lincoln? I'll paraphrase it. You can fool some people all the time. You can fool some of the people all the time. But eventually they'll wisen up. That's what happened here. It seems the Gen Z men are wisening up, slowly though with reports and statistics I've seen.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There are some that literally want to kill all the younger generations because they think they're woke. Those people need to be in an asylum.

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

that would explain a lot