My dad tells this story of how he met my mom....and he thinks it's supposed to be endearing. It just comes off as cringeworthy to me.

Essentially my dad went to a bar. Started talking to a drunk woman, and then he left. Got to his car, realized he didn't have his car keys, and realized they must have been on the tray when he threw out his garbage/food reminants.

So he goes back into the bar, digs around in their garbage until he finds his keys, makes out with my mom, and they spend the night drinking together. Then he drives them to his house drunk, and that's how he met my mom.

Now I don't know if that's the night I was concieved. They did stay together for another 6 years. They got married. But the implication seems to be that I was the result of a bar hookup because my dad is an idiot and threw away his car keys. Then my mom was somehow turned on by the sight of a man digging through the trash, that she starts making out with him.

And based on my dads age, and my age, I can conclude he was 35 years old when I was born. Which means this story likely took place when he was 34.

My mom has never told me her version of the story, and likes to pretend history never happened. She recently told me she never liked Phil Hartman, which I know for a fact isn't true because I can remember her enjoying him not only on NewsRadio, but also when I was a kid and watching Pee Wee's Playhouse. Then to hear her a few weeks ago say she never liked him makes me question anything she says about the past. So I wouldn't even trust her version of the events. Not that she's exactly willing to tell them anyways.

I'm 41 now, and hate being alive every single day. Every once in a while I think about how I wouldn't exist if my dad were just not an idiot that one night. Just ONE NIGHT for him to be a well functioning human, and he doesn't throw away his keys. I never get born, and how much better that would be for everybody. It just frustrates me that something SO SIMPLE could have saved me 41 years of daily agony. And then people wonder why I don't want kids.

gestures to the entire world

THAT'S WHY.

Does anyone else feel this way?

Because let's say you're Tom Hanks. And you get TomHanks@Lemmy.World

Well, what's stopping someone else from adopting TomHanks@Lemm.ee?

And some platforms minimize the text size of platform, or hide it entirely. So you just might see TomHanks, and think it's him. But it's actually a 7 year old Chinese boy with a broken leg in Arizona.

Because anyone can grab the same name, on a different platform.

I'm really liking the worth RetroMags is doing, and notice they have 16K members, so I assume it's about 4K active monthly users.

I'm wondering if to expand both their users, and the fedizerse's users, if it would make any sense at all to use the servers they use for downloads on a new Lemmy instance, that creates a seperate community for each magazine, and auto populates a new post in the correct community every time they post a new download over on their forums.

They don't REQUIRE membership to download, which is what this whole idea is based on. Since I assume it would be entirely too costly to have downloads on their forums AND a duplicate set of downloads on a seperate server. Seems costly given their massive scale.

Am I dreaming pipe-dreams? Or should I let them know about this idea?

So I just signed up for Mbin at Fedia.IO, and part of the registration says it will send out an email to complete the registration. Great!

It's been like 10 minutes with nothing in "all mail" and nothing in the trash or spam folders either. Is this something I need to wait a while for, or has something gone wrong, and I should contact their staff somehow?

I wish the fediverse would just stick to one set of jargon, and everybody uses the same terms to mean the same thing. Even "instances" should just be called "servers". That's all it is. This server talks to that servers, and information is exchanged.

So, if I understand this right, "magazines" on Mbin are the same as "communities" on Lemmy, are the same as subreddits on reddit. Three names to mean the same thing.

And a "Thread" is just a post. Like I'm making a post right now on Lemmy. If I did this on Mbin it would be called a "Thread".

But then I see there's also "comments" which is self explanitory (I hope...)

And there's also "Posts". But if Threads are posts, then what are Posts?

QUIT FUCKING AROUND WITH TERMS, FEDIVERSE! LETS ALL JUST KEEP THINGS SIMPLE!!!

........I keep thinking I have things figured out, until someone says "yeah, but have you tried this?" and then I look into it, and I'm confused again. Arg!

Toad has good taste! Cherry? Good pez! Raspberry? Good pez! Lemon? Usually that spot is Grape, and Lemon is better than Grape!

Cameo appearances by Mario and KK Slider.

So I feel like I'm doing peertube wrong. I'm trying to find good content, but it feels like every single instance I find is just "here's the linux news, here's the new linux tips, here's the linux gossip, linux linux linux!"

And I do not give a shit about linux. I learned long ago that I'm not smart enough to figure it out. I just want to find the non-tech, non-video game content. I don't know what I'm doing. I want to search all the instances, all at once, and see what the system recommends.

I don't have a peertube account. I have a piefed account. I'm not against getting a peertube account, but at this point, it's ruining the whole point of the fediverse. If I need to register for a peertube account to have a decent experience, what's the point in having all these services be interconnected. Registering for peertube account would be the THIRD account I would have for the fediverse. But at this point, I just want to find the content.

So, I was thinking that I joined Lemmy.World because Lemmy had more users than MBin. But today I was looking at https://mbin.cocopoops.com/ and started seeing MY posts. I knew Mbin could have different instances. I knew Lemmy could have different instances. And I knew they all federated together.

But I didn't know Mbin could federate with Lemmy. But I'm sure Lemmy/Mbin probably won't federate with Pixelfed, or Peertube.

Mbin, piefed, and Lemmy are essentially reddit replacements. So they should be in a circle. It doesn't matter how many users Mbin has, or piefed has, or Lemmy has. It matters how many the full circle of federated reddit replacements have. Because thats the true circle of users that you can interact with.

So what we need is a website that you enter an instance, and it tells you how big your circle would be on that platform, and a list of federated, and defederated instances with it.

So Lemmy.World would have a pretty high circle. While hexbear would have only itself, if I understand right.

So this may have been the weirdest dream I've had in a while. In this dream, MTV was actually still socially relevant to not only the music industry, but also pop culture, and current events. And they promoted the release of Taylor Swifts newest music video at 7:50pm. 10 minutes before that nights 8pm presidential debate. Which MTV would also be simucasting.

The weeks leading up to this, trump was accusing Swift of being trans, and secretly going to become black after the election. So she made a music viddo, and it became news. This was it's first airing.

It's a rap diss music video, in the style of Weird Al, except it's Taylor Swift. She's not doing black face, but she has an 80s style black guy mustache, and an aftro wig. She's wearing a grill apron with a grill filled with footlongs on one side, and cocktail weenies on the other. Behind her were 5 women in bikinis dancing near a pool, wearing trump masks. And whenever you saw this shot with Taylor grilling in the foreground, and dancers in the background, Taylor sang the chorus.

"Grillin weenie's, yours is teeny, mine is jumbo, like Mr Feeney."

And everytime they said "Mr Feeney", it cut to a quick 1 second shot of Mr Feeney from the 1990s ABC sitcom "Boy meets world". Each time he's holding a hot dog. They sing this chrorus 5 times in the song. Each time, that quick 1 second shot he's holding a bigger hot dog than the last shot of him.

Also, every time they sing the chorus and you see the dancers, one of their heads explodes, and falls down out of frame. Then she gets back up, still wearing the same trump mask, but this time with a bandage over the ear. She walks off screen giving the thumbs up. So each time the chorus runs, there's one less dancer.

I wish I could remember the whole song, but the only other line besides the chorus I remember was:

"If you think trump's financially hot, then you must be smoking pot, three casino bankruptcies later should tell you he's not. One presidency later left him looking like Darth Vader, took the files back home and prompted some FBI raiders. We're not putting a convict in power running scams with NFTs, Harris in white house, 2024 just trust me!"

And after the song is over, you see a 90s style crt tv turning off effect, and the perspective shifts to see Hank Hill having just turned off the tv. Ladybird sleeping on the floor in front of him.

"My god, that was completely disrespectful! She was using CHARCOAL while grilling those dogs! They must taste AWFUL! Boy I tell ya, Ladybird, that girl ain't right!"

Then he walks outside, and the batmobile is in his driveway. And Hank is confused and slightly annoyed.

Thats when I woke up.

WTF brain?

Wish I knew how to add a second picture. I have another one with lettice.

After YEARS of wanting to try these, I finally found a local seller in my area who sells them. In case you've never seen the commercial, I've included a compilation of the whole saga. Best 6 1/2 minutes of your life ever spent.

Long Loooong MaaaaaAAAAAaaaaan!!!!