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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.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

We used to joke in 2010s: what is Internet Explorer? It's a program that is used to download a browser.

Nowadays, what is Mozilla Firefox? It's a repository you fork to make a browser.

[–] Corvid 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Firefox forks have dozens of users! Dozens!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes but dozens of forks with dozens of users is still dozens.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Any number is a number of dozens if you think about it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This sounds pedantic, but honestly I just think the language of it is very interesting:

Any number can be dozens, except 1 or -1.

0 dozens, Pi dozens, 4.5 dozens, 1 dozen.

And now the word dozen has lost all visual meaning to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

To sound (and be) even more pedantic though, any number except one (1) can be dozens, but truly any number can be a number of dozens, as my comment said.

1 is a number.

[–] calcopiritus 1 points 3 weeks ago

Except 12. That's a single dozen.

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