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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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[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Doesn't evolution highlight thst the hair being there means it WAS/IS useful or wanted? I'm pretty sure those hairs act as a germ net or something, or maybe it's just because that part of the body is best kept warm.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, evolution allows for vestigial parts all the time. And sometimes random mutations happen and doesn't make much of a difference so it doesn't get selected out and now there's just something there for no reason that never had a purpose.

I’m pretty sure those hairs act as a germ net or something, or maybe it’s just because that part of the body is best kept warm.

The biggest argument against that is the fact that humans have lost most of their body hair anyway and still managed to thrive. Not that it makes leg hair bad, but we clearly don't need it to survive.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Well that was a good take-down, I bow to your superior knowledge on this

[–] bootleg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

It was certainly useful when we didn't have clothes and had much more hair.