this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
1291 points (98.8% liked)

Microblog Memes

9128 readers
2841 users here now

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. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
ReadyUser31@lemmy.world
aeronmelon@lemmy.world
needanke@feddit.org
1291
The secret ingredient is crime (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by merari42@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
155 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Stormygeddon@startrek.website -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel like this parallels the story about spending of $10 million to research and develop a Space Pen vs just using pencils.

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem with pencils is that in space broken graphite floats around easily and is conductive. A conductive powder floating into something electronic in a pressurized oxygen rich environment is no bueno.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Graphite powder is also quite flammable isn't it?

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not sure, but with that much oxygen in the air I'm sure anything could "become" flammable, especially when atomized or turned into a powder. That's why grain silos on farms are fire hazards; the dust.