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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- 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.
- 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.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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Let’s be honest. This is everywhere you go. Every morning, millions of people in your vicinity wake up, discover that their brain is broken, they no longer know left from right, can’t complete a sentence, forgot how to count to four, lost all concept of the physical space they occupy, and say to themselves, “Yes, today I shall go out and engage in commerce!”
Whenever I'm driving and someone does something really stupid, I've started saying to myself "don't be mad, cut them some slack, it's clearly their first day driving." I started saying it as a joke, but honestly it seems pretty accurate most of the time.
Edit: I shared this with a friend and she responded
I have a theory for why OWIHTP happens: Shopping is exhausting. Having to process all the products in the store, minding the shopping list, and what you’ve picked up already and what you need to pick up what isn’t on the list, deciding between alternatives and sometimes reorganizing big chunks of the list because what you wanted to get isn’t available – is immensely draining.
When you’re at checkout and don’t have anything to do mentally, you give the brain a rest it gladly accepts.
Yeah, and at the end of the day, we're all just bags of meat with electricity flowing through us. It's amazing we've made it this far.