Bert’s battery ran out in 1969 and has yet to recharge.

I’ve seen videos of some of these for honey, eggs, etc. Sometimes there’s a sort of vending machine, but often if it’s rural/small town, they can just get by with the honor system: drop money into a box, grab what you paid for.

Here’s one article about it.

https://macleans.ca/society/tiny-homes-fredericton/

I don’t remember where I saw this the first time, but it did mention that this had become a thing in a few American cities too (this story was from Fredericton, Canada)

No, just sharing stuff that I like.

Still seems to have lots of energy in him too!

Here he is dancing on the red carpet.

That’s a huge parenting win right there.

Wouldn’t want to make a fool of yourself.

It’s a play on an existing meme format:

That’s amazing! Herbie looks to be in decent shape for what he’s been through.

Long answer: It just goes to show that you can’t beat an internal problem with external validation, no matter how convincing it would be to the average onlooker. If your self-image/self-worth is low, you have to challenge that assumption internally first. Our (often skewed) perception is way more convincing than it should be.

Short answer: don’t try to evaluate your life when sleepy

I hope it happens!

Spy Family

But you get to be silly with the kid/s now! And as a whole family of weirdos!

That sounds like a pretty cool solution. I don’t have a good mental picture for how that would work on the technical side, but anything that does behind-the-scenes work like that for new users is probably worth considering.

I think it’s healthy for the fediverse to have similar communities on different instances, because if we centralize, it basically becomes reddit, which means moderation and censorship are at the whims of whoever owns the only place people go.

I’d also like to give a shout-out to sopuli.xyz/c/memes for having a popular memes community too.

I think I’ve been the same person in the ways that matter, but I do sometimes cringe about being so aggressively into politics and one of those “debate me!” atheists until sometime in my early 20s, lol

Cringing because some people out there who knew you when you were younger likely still picture you that way, instead of knowing all the ways you’ve matured and improved as a person.

Seriously don’t sweat it, and please stick around. We’re all human and sometimes put our foot in our mouth, myself included. <3

Sorry that my response was snippy. This is a pet peeve of mine from reddit, and it seems to have carried over to lemmy, where any time someone expresses some form of happiness (especially involving kids/family), someone invariably shows up in the comments to tell them that they dislike it.

This was simply a wholesome post about a guy being hugged by his wife and daughter, saying “wow, that guy must be the richest man in the world”, and your immediate response to it was “Huh, guess I’d rather be poor”.

This same caption could have been placed over a photo of a vet who loves animals, an artist who gets to paint in their dream home studio, or a nature lover looking out into a national park, and if your first thought is to comment under those telling everyone how much you dislike dogs, art, and mountains, it would also be rude.

It wouldn’t be a wholesome post without someone in the comments searching for a way to find fault. =(

In this case: literally just a cute picture about someone finding their true happiness with their loving family rather than material wealth.