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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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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is like 6 fires, but one is a :) fire and the other five are probably :( fires.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 67 points 1 year ago (4 children)

All of the fires are :(

While the palisades fire is showing a lot of very rich folks that their money doesn't make them immune to fire, there are a lot of relatively regular people who were barely hanging on to their homes in a very expensive area who lost everything and could be financially ruined forever.

Don't get me wrong, vanishinlgy few of those in the palisades were poor before the fire. But a lot could be now if they were uninsured or if their insurance fucks them over.

There's a bunch of apartment buildings in the area that burned down too. Families who were protected by rent control lost their apartment and now where do they go?

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your comment reminds me of how hurricane Sandy turned into an opportunity to rezone and gentrify affected neighborhoods in New York. The poor always lose, the rich always win: https://apnews.com/article/superstorm-sandy-disparities-042c69728c10e92837360b8b31704eac

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It's not paradise if you can't look over and see the "sinners" in hell eh?

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

To the AI-controlled "free market"

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Can you imagine being an insurance company right now, trying to fuck people over in their time of need? Gee, I sure how nothing bad happens to those poor insurance people just trying to do their job.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Also everyone who worked in a business that burned down probably just lost their job.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sure the :) fire gets prioritized too.