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.

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Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We managed to wire up large swaths of rural area for electricity back in the 1930's

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

In a lot of places, that only happened because people banded together and made it happen for their area - the existing suppliers weren't interested, even with federal loans available. That's where the "Electric Co-op" companies came from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Somehow capitalism has become about more profiteering, self-serving, instant gratification

But also there were no choices. Starlink may be a valid choice and the infrastructure is already there