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.
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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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Self-reflection is hot (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Lazy thinking is a feature, not a bug. We’re social animals. Collective ideation is more effective and calorie-efficient.

The idea of individual intelligence kinda flies in the face of our evolutionary history.

But the “great man” myth helps powerful people stay powerful, so in some ways peddling the importance of individual intelligence is also part of our evolutionary history.