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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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[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looking around the infrastructure of Texas, it's gonna be a whole lot longer than 10 years if they decide to make anything sidewalk safe.

Better get used to walking on grass if you choose to walk somewhere here.

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Whats wrong with walking on the grass? It always blows my mind people choose to walk in the road, as close to vehicles as possible, rather than choose the clearly safer option and walk on the grass.

I'm genuinely curious why so many people are afraid of the grass, fuck, ill walk in the weeds/trees before I walk on the side of a road.

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed with preferring to walk on grass than the road, but the grass here is thick, uneven, and patchy. Very easy to trip or get stuck going through a section that hasn't been mowed in months.

If they had instead just made a sidewalk, things would be much easier. Especially in the areas that have sidewalk ramps that lead to nothing but grass. Laziness.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The road isn't a better option but issues with grass in residential areas:

  • Tree roots and other trip hazards
  • People parking their 5 giant SUVs and pickup trucks on them (this can happen on sidewalks too, but it's often worse)
  • Dog shit that is less visible
  • Road design is usually more hostile when there aren't sidewalks since they don't even consider the existence of pedestrians
  • Sometimes it's not grass so much as mud, particularly when flooding has occurred recently (which has gotten more common as climate change has advanced).
  • Running on a sidewalk (or road) is better for reducing injury despite grass feeling softer (since it's more uneven).

And on the larger sidewalks you can ride bikes on them relatively safely.