God dammit…I gave you a good faith upvote, and then clicked the video for what I assumed would be an amazing horse swimming video.

…dammit Rick Astley! Stop dressing up like a unicorn!

Call it “the app formerly known as twitter”. It’s what the media does. It would piss off Elon, and it has a whole prince vibe to it.

Twitter has never, even dating back to it’s inception, never ever ever turned a profit. The whole reason Elon mockingly offered to buy it was because they were looking for, and struggling to find, a buyer. They just wanted to break even and walk away.

Instead Elon was like “Hur dur I got 43 billion for ya!” And Twitter was like “SOLD! No takesies backsies!”. And Elon was like “Wait, wut?”

And then Elon carried a sink through the lobby in protest.

I don’t know what to make of this. Regular tiktok just is sooooo offputting to me. The 50x overlays. The voiceovers which are the basis of the content, with the video that has NOTHING to do with the content. The chinese spying. It’s all just very bad.

But then I remember a federated version would be…different. I can’t imagine it would be like tiktok with text overlays. I can’t imagine the content would be similar either. It’ll be like “here’s the better way to sudo your linux…”

Which, as someone who doesn’t care about linux, I’d find it less offensive, but still wouldn’t care about it.

All in all, I’m not excited for it.

…yeah. Where the fuck am I getting Wendy from??? Even the previous message I was replying to said “Lucy”. God dammit brain. I’m going to need you to not get dementia just yet. I’m only 41…

Does texas not have early mail-in voting?

I’ve been saying for a few years now that I don’t blame anyone anymore for biting the onion. It is FAR TOO HARD to figure out what is life being absurd, and what is an absurd satire headline.

The lines aren’t blurred anymore. There are no lines. The lines have ceased to exist at this point.

I don’t understand life anymore, and I’d like to go back to politics being boring instead of being a circus.

I guess Charles Schultz just grew up in a different time, but I always wondered why Charlie Brown never snapped, and just beat the shit out of her. Not the first time she did that. That would be psycho behavior to just start beating the shit out of one of your friends for doing that ONCE…but Wendy has made a whole life reputation out of being the one who does this…EVERY…SINGLE…TIME.

So after like 10 times, I’m surprised Charlie Brown never went “Ok, you know what, come here, bitch…” and then the next day’s comic strip Wendy would have a black eye. Then, 30 years later, these youtube shows could do these low budget list videos

“Ten times sunday morning cartoons got really really dark!”

And at like number 3 would be the time Peanuts suggested that Charlie Brown punched Wendy.

And maybe like number 7 could be the time Dilbert got really biggoted towards his new trans co-worker.

And number 1 would be Jon from the Garfield comics going completely fucking insane, feeding his 12lb cat a 6lb dish of lasagna every week, talking to, and understanding his cat (but for some reason NOT his dog), and his batshit insane dating life stratagies such as hiding in womens bushes, and surprising them at work unannounced during work hours. Yes, these are all legit things I absolutely remember reading in real garfield cartoons in the 90s.

Damn…that’s…actually pretty smart. Even if they catch on that people are doing this, what are they going to do? Purge republican registered voters?

I’ve already admitted several times that I don’t understand the world anymore. I USED to understand the world. I don’t understand the world now. First Georgia became a swing state? Now TEXAS???

I…I mean, I’ll take it, but…what?

If prison is modern day slavery, and judges send people to prison, then wouldn’t judges be the ones to judge about judging slaves?

the leader of a… terrorist rebel organization(I’m not entirely sure what to call al qaeda).

No no. You got it right.

Kinky is using a chicken feather. Perverted is using the whole damn chicken.

…there’s a movie?

cries in 2016 memes of what if they actually ran trump?

I don’t understand a word he says! He says a lot of words, but never forms a full sentence. He just drifts through half sentences, and then spews out repeating words, questions what he just said, as if he himself doesn’t know what he’s saying. Then he says the second half of a sentence he never started.

Repeat this patern for hours, and now you know why people leave his rallys early. Either that, or they want to leave before they get shot.

Having not yet used this service, I can’t comment on the service itself. What I will say is that it sounds interesting, until I realized one VERY important detail…

Content.

This service is designed to bring you all the content that you feed data locations to pull from. Ok, that’s all well and good, but the problem is, there’s such a lack of content on the fediverse that it’s not overwhelming right now to just log into Lemmy, see the 3-10 replies per day. Log into Mastodon, realize you’re following like 6 accounts and 5 of them are bots, with the 6th one barely posting.

This service is like a very useful water pump to pull water out of a body of water, and distribute it to a more convienent tank…and then you place it’s input in the middle of the Nevada desert. Doesn’t mean the water pump is faulty, or not expertly designed. Just means it needs water to pull from.

That seems to be my frustration with the fediverse. There are very few content CREATORS, who don’t revolve around a few basic topics. Politics, Technology…and that’s it. And yes, I’m lumping video games, linux, computers, all that into technology. If it’s something you need a screen for, or connects to something with a screen, that’s lumped into technology.

I mildly care about politics. Under normal circumstances I don’t care at all. I usually say “let other people worry about it.” But these last 8 years have been just a constant barrage of bullshit, that it becomes necissary to care, as everybody is going to get fucked over otherwise.

Technology I have moderate interest in. I wouldn’t call it the most important thing to me, but I wouldn’t say I have zero interest either.

But then what…

Sports talk among locals is practically non-existant here (except for the Baltimore Oriols, who have a surprisingly strong community).

There’s a pro-wrestling community which seemingly has 4 active commentors, including mods, and 2-3 other people who pop in from time to time.

So I try to do my part to write at LEAST one entertaining post per day. Some days I write more. Most days I have half a dozen smaller bite size posts as little jokes or whatever. And then I try to post SOMETHING that people are going to disagree with. I feel like THIS post is that post for the day. Mostly because nobody likes to take responsibility for a community, and nobody likes being called out as being just a consumer, and not a producer of content.

And PeerTube is pathetic. Lemmy at least has some degree of variety. It’s not much, but it tries. Peertube on the otherhand is “EVERYTHING IS A LINUX VIDEO!!! ONLY LINUX EXISTS ON THIS PLATFORM!!!”

I can’t say I produce any video content, but with a linux only content platform, I can’t say I even consume either. It’s a service I want to like, but they make it so damned hard.

And Lemmy is easy to keep track of everything, and I run out of content usually within an hour. Even though I log in several times a day. It’s like drinking water from a shotglass when you want a galllon.

So I don’t see much use for this new thing. Not because it’s not a well made product, again, I have no usage experience, but because the sources it’s pulling from are barron dry.

Sir, you do not have a worthy username to be saying crazy things on the internet. That’s MY thing! And if anything, you gotta have drugs! Do you know what this world would come to if Danny DeVito ever ran out of cocaine??? He would get all oiled up, and we’d all have to look at his butthole, as Chyrol Crow sang dongs about irony. Because WE were the buttholes all along!

See? THAT’S how it’s done! Now go see my post about why Burger King should start advertising nuts on pornhub.

Studio audience: OOOOOOOO!!!

New rule. Every politician needs a heat signature based gps monitored butt plug inside them at all times.

That way their thumbs are always free.