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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.
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[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There’s this thing that Americans have. An old world ideal. Where they picture is all having two hour lunches and generally chilling about the place.

I'm pretty sure I saw stats saying that in EU people actually do work less than in US. For example in most EU states you get way more paid leave than in US.

they picture is all having two hour lunches and generally chilling about the place.

I'd say it's overselling it, but there's a grain of truth to that.

some of the levels of outright poverty, both urban and rural more than challenge that in the states.

It depends. In poland where I live there are pretty much no slum districts despite being less developed than US in general.

You think Europeans are friendly? In my experience people are just people.

From what I gather US has that culture of fake friendliness, while in EU people react just more honestly. It might not be that pronounced in UK that shares more culture with US than EU.

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

I think my main problem is with Americans talking about "Europe" as if it is a singular monolithic entity similar to the US (which we all know is far more nuanced and the difference between Texas and Maine is vast).

That over-simplifocation, over-generalisation is a strong narrative, but a really useless one.

Also, Poland! Wonderful. One of the most genuinely decent places I've visited.

As for the fake friendliness... It r really isn't something I've encountered with Americans, at least no more than in capital cities all over the world.