this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2026
801 points (99.0% liked)

Microblog Memes

12248 readers
2004 users here now

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.

RELATED COMMUNITIES:

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

TranscriptTweet screenshot “me at 13: wow i can’t wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek me at 30: wow i can’t wait until we destroy all computers like in dune”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 68 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, Star Trek is pushing the idea of utopian society. Prime directive. Evolved past money. Spending time people and resources on exploration. To seek out new life, not to exploit or destroy it. Tech in those hands is going to be far different than the same tech in our society’s hands.

[–] KittyCat@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

We're more or less on track for the star trek universe right now. WW3 begins in 2026/2027 and continues with nuclear exchange into 2053.

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

WW3 is already here, just with seasonal updates instead of the full product at launch.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago

Great, now I don't want it anymore. You're such an ass! 😭

[–] Cheebus@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Is that also the timeline where Q put the crew on trials for the fascist phase of the human population?

Also holy shit didn’t realize how long that war was for

[–] ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, decades worth of nuclear exchange? I thought most doctrine was to dump everything at once so they didn't have a chance to return fire.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Well, depends on the rate of exchange. Like, after the first, it took the survivors 10 years to rebuild their nuclear arsenals to go at it again. And after the third exchange, nobody was left who knew how to build nuclear weapons anymore.

That's why it took so long.

[–] bajabound@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I figure we're well down the path of the Ferengi. Rules of acquisition #18.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

We definitely will achieve Ferenginar if the EU succeeds at becoming the world government. The thing everyone forgets about the Ferengi is that they don’t have unbridled laissez-faire capitalism. They have one societal government with a vast bureaucracy, with one branch highlighted prominently in the show: the Ferengi Commerce Authority.

The FCA is so powerful within Ferengi society that their best comparison in historical human society is probably the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 3 points 10 hours ago

We get a lot of shit, as we should, 1/3 of our population voted for Trump, but I’m not seeing much moral high ground from the EU. A lot of the same oligarch fueled themes to control and demoralize humanity as a whole apply.