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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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[–] OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app 23 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I believe that sugar and caffeine are the real gateway drugs, they are the 1st chemical compounds many people are addicted to.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Gateway to what? Harder cookies? A double shot of espresso? They're definitely drugs, but I think to call them a gateway isn't so accurate.

[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 5 hours ago

"Gateway" is subjective, but sugar is certainly the first substance people encounter that influences cognitive behavior. Consume this thing and feel this way.

Of course that doesn't mean you're going to go and shoot up some heroin, but both are certainly "addictive".

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world -1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Both of those are biologically necessary. So if we’re going that route, oxygen.

You can live just fine without consuming sugar or caffeine.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Sugar is a bit of a stretch, since we also do need it. We just get it in a lot of food, since a lot of the foods we eat also need sugar to grow and do things.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

You can get sugar from carbs, the issue is refined sugars

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

We do need a small amount of glucose, that’s why I was specific that we don’t need to consume it. We can make the amount we actually need from the protein we eat.

Whether that’s ideal or not is a separate conversation, but we can live our whole lives without consuming sugar or carbs.

We’d literally die if we didn’t eat salt or fat.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

https://blog.myfitnesspal.com/ask-dietitian-can-you-survive-without-carbs/

Can you survive without any carbs in your diet? An army of zero-carb-diet social media influencers seem to think so.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world -2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Dude... they're literally banning fast-food ads in the UK. This is no time to get pedantic haha

And we do need sugar... Carbs are sugar. You need carbs

Don't take this personally but it kinda sucks you got upvoted this much