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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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Are they a thief of focus or simply very efficient entertainment? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I lean toward "efficient entertainment", but I do sometimes wonder what that chunk of my free time would look like otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I’d like to see the author prove that beetle counting is more productive than creating game tutorials. People make all kinds of baseless assumptions that are biased by their personal values.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Since we live under the hell that is capitalism, I'd argue the game tutorials are better!

Revenue generation via ad views
Will likely encourage additional sold copies from people that stumble on the series

-VS-
A book about beetles in some niche village somewhere no one will ever go.

Fuck your beetles.

(this is a joke, beetles are cool)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’d like to see the author prove that beetle counting is more productive than creating game tutorials. People make all kinds of baseless assumptions that are biased by their personal values.

I hear if you read the book it will give you +1 on farming or +1 on survival (depending on your class), so...