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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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[–] Instigate@aussie.zone 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Aren’t mosquitoes the most dangerous animal on earth? I guess it depends what measure you’re using, and how you define ‘animal’. If it’s how many human deaths they cause, mosquitoes are at the top of the list and humans are second, with many others coming in before hippos. I can’t really think of another relevant measure. Even if you disregard invertebrates as being animals, I’m pretty sure that dogs and crocodiles kill many more humans than hippos each year.

Sure, they’re bloody dangerous, but I can’t think of a single way of measuring ‘most dangerous animals in the world’ that puts hippos at the top of the list. I’m happy to be corrected though.

[–] saimen@feddit.org 13 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe some kind of ratio like

People having touched the animal/ People survived having touched the animal

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mosquitoes are just the transfer vector, virus do the killing. Virus are not animals and it's debatable if they are even alive.
I wanted to link to The Merry Flea poem here, but could only find a bad youtube video of it, so be warned

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Guns are just the transfer vector for bullets and the hippos are just a transfer vector for physics. The spread of malaria (as one example) is directly caused by mosquitos and nobody serious would argue that point.

[–] gray@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe based on the number of humans killed per animal? I don't know either