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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.

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  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.
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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 130 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

I hope this is a fictitious example and he's not actually paying almost $20 for a cookie.

But I've talked to enough Californians to know how much some people are willing to pay for things.

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 25 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"Food $200

Data $150

Rent $800

Cookies $3,600

Utility $150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying"

“Spend less on cookies”

“No”

[–] oascany@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

At $20/cookie, this is 180 cookies per month, or an average of 6 cookies per day.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. Their family is dying. They need to spend more on cookies, not less.

[–] oascany@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

You're right I vote to get rid of the food budget entirely. That's 10 more cookies a month.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 41 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe with DoorDash fees, but if that's the case then this guy fucking deserves bankruptcy.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 29 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Mfer door dashing cookies one at a time

[–] lyrial@anarchist.nexus 5 points 13 hours ago

If it is from Crumbl, thus seems more than possible

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

A friend of mine moved to SF right out of college. A year or so later, he told me that he visited Busch Gardens Williamsburg which is a theme park near where we grew up. It was originally owned by Anheuser-Busch, so you can get beer basically anywhere in the park.

He had this to say:

"You know, this is the first time I've been since turning 21. I was surprised to see how cheap the beer was. They were only charging $8 a pint."

[–] potpotato@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Was he surprised a pint of beer in general was $8 or specifically at an amusement park? Because, for the latter, that is surprising.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

He was surprised it was $8 in an amusement park.

This was also like 14 years ago. Might need to update the dollar amount when I tell this story.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I hope nobody is stupid enough to pay $3.75 for a cookie, let alone any of those other prices!

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago

Depends on the cookie.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 14 hours ago

Hey man, Cookie is a nice girl. She's doing the best she can in this economy.

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

Yeah if you’re used to California prices most places feel like a deal. I don’t bat an eye paying $4.70 a gallon for gas currently.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

This guy's buying cookies from Erewhon

[–] Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

How much are they prepared to pay for things?

What the going rate for a doodad these days?