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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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[–] teft@piefed.social 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (28 children)

The speed of light is a tautology. We define it via how many meters light travels in a second. And we define the meter by the same measure. It’s just the distance light travels in 1⁄299792458 Of a second.

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

This got me thinking if we defined the metre to be a more round number, like 1⁄300000000.

It would shrink the metre by 0.6918mm.

Now I'm curious about what implications that would have.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

π would be equal 3. /s

Seriously, any metric unit of a quantity involving the dimension "length" would also change its value slightly.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

π doesn't have the dimension "length", it's a dimensionless scalar

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I know. I should indicate that with "/s" to make that clear. The "also" refers to anything involving "length" besides the metre itself.

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