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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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[–] jasoman@lemmy.world 48 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I think food to pedal the bike cost money.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

One of my friends did a personal study on his costs at uni and found it was more cost effective to drive his car (this was in the early 2000's) than it was to ride his bike to uni everyday than buy the food required to fuel the 50km round trip.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 50 minutes ago

Maybe try not living 50km away from the university you need to attend almost every day?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Hope he wasn't majoring in anything like math or biology.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

Well he certainly wasn't majoring in wilful ignorance so that probably works in his favour.

[–] FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world 35 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

And don’t even get me started on all the healthcare the meat bag driving it needs.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Probably less than non-cyclists due to better health, so a net negative cost.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

Studies have actually been done on this.

Cyclists do have higher risk of injury from traffic, but the health benefits from the exercise they get more than makes up for it. Cyclists have significantly lower all-around mortality and injury/sickness rates than car drivers.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 minutes ago

Fuck them knees tho. Even on good bike, commuting daily overwhelmes them for me :(

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Edmonton is in Canada, so that is covered 👍

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Just don't get your teeth knocked out in the crash

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 hours ago

Teeth? Do you mean Luxury Bones™?

[–] jasoman@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I guess when you have fancy pants, you go on adventures.

[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Its more the cocaine needed to ride long distance that costs the money.