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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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[–] xor@anarchist.nexus 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

it’s not a language, you can’t translate a book into mathematics 

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That doesn't prove it isn't a language. Many concepts are untranslatable between languages. Formal languages exist which are only able to express things within their formal domain. Etc!

Modern mathematicians use a common symbolic system to communicate mathematical ideas that is more a language than it is not a language. In fact I think it's entirely a language.

[–] xor@anarchist.nexus 0 points 1 month ago

there are a variety of ways to express any mathematical idea… i.e. there are a variety of mathematical languages      

usually referred to as different notations.      

even when there are language barriers, a good translator can still express an idea in another language… math is not a language, but you do kinda need to learn another language to understand it

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

What's your point?