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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.
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[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow, those figures are shocking. US of A, 1st economy in the world, 1st military power in the world and our space, 36th in literacy rate. I am sad for fellow Americans :(

[–] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US should be doing much better in all categories based on its wealth alone, but this is kind of an important factor.

34% of adults lacking literacy proficiency were born outside the US.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With the two high stats being on the North East, and the low stats being in the south west near the border with Mexico.

So that makes me wonder what percentage of the 34% that were not born here are literate in another language

Because I know I have met a number of people who have moved here and haven't learned English yet, but if you pass a translation app between each other, they can read it in their native language.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The US ranks 36th in literacy.

This is a deceptive statistic. It merely indicates that many countries like Uzbekistan and North Korea falsely report 100% literacy rates. Look here. The USA literacy rate is actually about the same as that of other wealthy Western democracies.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

North Korea probably does have high literacy so the people can read and understand all the propaganda.

[–] parody@lemmings.world 13 points 1 year ago

Promoted to mod of and banned from c/Pyongyang in one comment

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You are right. Very interesting link, thanks !