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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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  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.
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[–] GoosLife@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago (5 children)

In my town, there are mostly electric vehicles nowadays. I was out walking along a larger road in my neighborhood when I noticed a bus and two cars passing each other, and it suddenly hit me that earlier in my life, that would have been a very noisy affair, but it wasn't. I also realized how much the world used to smell like gas. And does anyone else remember the rainbow colored gas puddles you used to see and smell in parking lots? I don't remember the last time I saw any of those.

Then I realized there is a world where my kids can grow up outside of noise pollution, cigarette smoke and car fumes, and it made me a little more hopeful about the future.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What town do you live in that has more electric cars than gas powered? Doesn’t sound believable; but if it is, then that’s fuckin’ sick.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

93.9% of new cars sold in Norway are EVs, a further 5% are hybrids.

I don't know what that translates to in terms of cars currently on the road though. But that's also stats for the whole country. You can imagine in a relatively affluent area where there are mostly new cars the vast majority of them are probably EVs.

[–] GoosLife@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Scandinavia, like that guy guessed, is right

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I guess France has a city with ONLY electric vehicles. Only have 27 people living there though lol

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I remember those puddles. You're right I haven't seen them in years.

[–] EnderWiggin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Are you from the future?

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Remember playing in those fucking puddles? Swimming and them? Eating fish from them?

Well, the bigger ones.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do people not maintain their cars cause ive only seen gasoline puddles out in the desert from folks rupturing their tanks while offroading. That should not be frequent enough for it to be normal.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Old cars must have leaked more frequently without it breaking them, because I can remember oily puddles under parked cars quite a lot from my childhood (which was in the 90s).

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Huh, maybe cars are just better maintained in my region or maybe the environment is harsher to cars in your region. And yeah old cars will be like "I just shot out two of my cylinders through the hood, only lost 20% efficiency!"