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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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[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's what everyone thinks they would do. A statistical analysis of lottery winners says otherwise. Most people when they get money go crazy spending and blow whatever extra money they get, thus needing even more money.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You need to keep in mind that that is not an analysis of a random sampling of the population, that is an analysis of people who are willing to play the lottery in the first place. By definition these are people bad with money and planning.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly, and the billionaires are all people who took some crazy risk and actually won. There were dozens of nascent EV companies when musk invested in tesla, he just got lucky and now he's a moron with a ketamine addiction and more money than anybody else.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Exactly, and the billionaires are all people who took some crazy risk and actually won.

The billionaires are all people willing to exploit and steal from others in order to hoard as much as they can. You cannot earn 1 billion dollars.

Luck is a factor, but with daddy's money the can afford to roll those dice as often as they want until they get "lucky".