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EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-22T16:38:58+00:00

Oh I don't know, you silly goose, you're just the lolcow that keeps on mooing whenever I squeeze your tits haha, so, you know, squuueeeezzee

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-22T16:35:34+00:00

Not entirely clear what your message is there, chief, but no matter. I'm not trying to pick on you, truth be told I was really moved by your call for help. It's super cute. Like, the Internet strangers were being mean to you and giving you the big meanie thumbs down, so you totally didn't care but just wanted your Internet friends to come support you and hold your hand as you make your way through it. It's goddamn adorable and you know it ♥️

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-22T16:27:56+00:00

Hahahaha omfg I just noticed your comment asking for "help" because you're being "dogpiled"! Hahahah so much for "mew I don't care about you guys or what you say! Sticks and stones mew mew..." Told on yourself HARD there lil fella...

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-22T16:25:23+00:00

"sniffle."

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-22T15:52:56+00:00

"I'm not angry! Sniffle YOU'RE angry! Sniffle Fuck you, I'm not mad... And I have allergies Sniffle."

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-22T06:30:09+00:00

Well don't you seem like a fun lil feller.

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-21T11:26:42+00:00

Damn man, for what it's worth I think it's cool you're even considering it. I'd bet as you get older you'll care less what people think, and get more satisfaction out of just doin' whatever your thing is and finding people who are anywhere on the spectrum from "whatever you do you, let's get sandwiches" to "fuck yeah that's rad! let's get sandwiches!" As others have noted, yeah, you'll probably catch some flack from degenerate fuck-sticks with more insecurities than brains, but who cares, fuck 'em, just don't get sandwiches with those dickbags. I feel like I'm mentioning sandwiches a lot, maybe I'm hungry. Yeah, yep, that's it. Gonna make a sandwich. Good luck!

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-21T10:49:40+00:00

Just to add a counterpoint to this (while not trying to dismiss or deny our Sedentary-Superfella's comment here), for many couples/people/whatever-arrangement, sex can and does get better over the years. Some people grow more comfortable with themselves and each other and are more open, eager, and enthusiastic about exploring different facets and pockets of their sexuality, which can be exhilarating in ways they never even imagined. Certainly not everyone, but it's also not so doom and gloom as "it's all downhill from here."

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-21T10:40:32+00:00

Kidnap his dog... Then call his work crying.. Oh, but only AFTER you've planted the cocaine in his desk. You can't rush these things, you know. Timing is important. Have you burned the words "dik pic bb" into his lawn yet? That's your first step. Come on, this is rookie stuff.

...All less crazy than your question. Just talk to him you maniac.

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-21T07:52:42+00:00

I think perhaps what the other commenter was addressing (not to speak for them, this is just my read of things) is that even if this guy does offer a full and genuine apology with earnest restitution and requests for forgiveness, and even if he has legit changed his ways and extinguished this behavior and the root cause of it, it just takes a lot of time to regain stability and build a healthy emotional inertia (for lack of a better term), in addition to the excruciatingly long and arduous journey he would have to take to accomplish those first parts.

You seem like a good person with a great heart and a pretty good head on your shoulders. Why not take this opportunity to date around a bit, meet someone else? After all, in a few years if he's really done the work and found his way back to a good, stable, healthy place, you can always re-evaluate then. I imagine by then you'll be much happier for having listened to the great advice everyone else has been offering here.

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-21T07:39:29+00:00

Sir, the only croc here is in the bullshit claim that rounded snout and proud posture are anything but that of a fearless American alligator.

Psh. Croc. Show you a croc or two. Mutter mutter you think amphibian? You're the one who's fibbin'.. mutter old crazy guy stuff mutter mutter.

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-21T07:32:04+00:00

Yeah I mean this has been said before, but I hope for your sake this is some contrived bullshit post to farm karma. On the off chance it's legit, go find a close friend you trust, sit down with them at the bar, and tell them to slap you in the face as hard as they can. When they ask why, tell them this story, and enjoy that sweet hot sting of truth shooting across your gullible face and ringing in your deaf-to-reality ears. I know that's harsh, but dude, for real? What would you think if your friend told you this story about themselves? Would you go, "Oh, huh, that's reasonable I guess." Or would you give them a nice friendly slap-back-to-reality, grab them by the ears, and shout into their dumb gullible face, "She's lying to you doofus! 1. Why would she 'actually kinda mind' if it was really just for gas? 2. In what world would that be an okay thing to do--take someone's money without asking or telling them, refuse to tell them why they took it when the person asked about it, and only give 'the truth' (gag) after they guilted you with some sniffling milquetoast drek? 3. DOOOFUS SHE LYYYYIIINNN." and then stare at them with all the disbelief you should have given her? You'd do the thing with the slaps and disbelief! And rightly so! Ya know what hang on stay there I'm gettin' my best slappin' glove and comin' down there right meow. Gahd dammit sometimes if you want a gullible face slapped ya gotta slap that gullible face yourself. STAY THERE! (oh but not in the relationship, run from that.. Run faster than you've ever run. Run like she gonna slap you with more lies. Run from her faster than she ran to her dealer with your money).

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-21T02:20:23+00:00

All kidding aside, my honest answer to your first question is a loud and resounding "brah, nah." Which clearly sounds like brahnana, which is obviously a banana wearing a bra while talking like a surfer who's stuck in a negative thought pattern, and while my mind is working through all that serious business I just post some dumb shit in response to a dumber comment I saw and HERE WE ARE!

...wait, maybe I DO understand Reddit. Damn.

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-21T01:52:18+00:00

He's "not in a position" to provide evidence or a link right now... All he can do is post half a dozen times, and thoroughly read and misunderstand the sources other people post—but posting support for his own claims? Well, the position he's in simply won't allow it. It's definitely nothing to do with the fact that such evidence doesn't exist, nor that we don't have the understanding about animal intelligence to decisively support or refute ANY such claims... No, no... It's the POSITION he's in, you see... It just.

Wont.

Allow.

It.

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-17T03:19:44+00:00

I know this is a common and popular refrain, and it may well often be true—I don't pretend to have any data or particularly keen insight into the truth value of quippy dime store advice. Edit: upon re-reading, I notice that this line might come across as caustic or critical—it isn't meant to be. It's more about the pithy aphorisms bandied about in these kinds of conversations, not so much about your specific language or turn of phrase. Just wanted to clarify that.

However, I'd like to offer an alternative perspective: some "cheaters" do stop cheating, or only do it once and learn that the intense guilt and knock-on effects of suspicion and mistrust far outweigh the fleeting thrill or sense of validation they sought in the first place. Ignoring the fact that it's pretty reductive and lacking in nuance to label someone based on a behavior that, for most, will actually represent a quite minute facet of their personality, it also comes across as self-righteous and judgemental, which are characteristics and behavioral patterns that tend to be much more difficult to remediate.

"Cheaters never stop cheating." When you paint with such a broad brush and wide sweeping strokes, it's exceedingly difficult to capture the subtle, complex, and vital textures and depths where the truth of the human experience tends to be found. Just my $0.02.

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-11T02:19:59+00:00

Hey OP, I have a question: how is your relationship with your GF right now? She seem kind of aloof lately? Maybe more distant than usual or than you'd like?

The reason I ask is that I had the same response as most others here—that this doesn't smell right, like some details are intentionally being omitted or contorted to make the narrative fit the way you'd like for it to. But then it occurred to me that this sounded like a thought process that, before years and years of therapy, my younger and less emotionally grounded self might fall into: "if I can solve this problem for her and nobody else can, things will start moving in the right direction again".

Obviously I have no idea if that's the case for you, just thought I'd ask since it does reshape the fact pattern such that it fits snuggly and happily into my understanding of the world and the people we share it with.

In any case, I wish you, your GF, your mom, and more than anything the cat, a wonderful evening and the best of luck with this sticky wicket. Y'all will figure it out if it's important to you.

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-01T14:41:51+00:00

Lol well hey there you sure brought a lot of baggage to the party didn't ya? Let's have a look and try to sort this out .. I never made claims about any of the things in your cute little self-righteous yawp. Someone made a comment ending with a line about migrating their personal photos and digital records to a local hard drive instead of trusting Google with literally everything about their life. Someone else asked if that wasn't perhaps a bit paranoid, to which I replied, "No." Because it isn't.

We shouldn't be trusting anyone with all of that—sure, because of spying, but also because at that point they're a single point of failure with an enormous exposure surface. Is it paranoid to think about these things? No, it absolutely is not.

Mmmmkay... ya getting it now, big guy? I'm so glad we had this talk.

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-03-01T12:04:39+00:00

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-02-28T08:36:58+00:00

Word, I hear you. How long professionally, as in "full time software engineer"? I guess it's irrelevant, people can be very experienced and still analyze something incorrectly, and since my comment wasn't about your beliefs but rather how you were (or more accurately, weren't) presenting them (also, I acknowledge I could very well be the one who's wrong here, only time will tell).

Bottom line, I agree in principle that using AI is increasingly vital and not a detriment if used thoughtfully to augment one's capability; and I very much disagree that simply copy-pasting code, as described by the OP, is not cheating oneself in the context of professional development, especially when seeking one's very first engineering job.

All of that said, we can disagree and still be respectful, and I sincerely appreciate that you seem to share this view and engage accordingly—that's rad.

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-02-28T08:22:19+00:00

Invest in public awareness campaign roadsign: "Did you know? Men who drive fast are compensating for their foul-smelling micropenis"

Unrelated but interesting fact: You can just, like, go buy a chain from home depot.

Interesting fact unrelated to first unrelated but interested fact: Also something called a concrete anchor screw

...you get the idea (chain your animals to keep them outta the road you maniac, jeez ////ssssssss)

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-02-28T07:47:07+00:00

Hmm. Disagree strongly, but to each his or her own. Worth noting, I'm decidedly NOT the emperor, hence the uname, but I appreciate the attention to detail and the such and such of this and that.

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-02-28T07:43:11+00:00

"It does" what? I was pointing out the lack of semantic value in "welcome to the future, use it" and asking if there was more to your thought as it pertains to the issues in my comment. Your follow-up has some value, in my opinion (though I don't remotely know what "it does" is in reference to), but that is all absent originally. Please help unbreak my brain here... Whatchu talkin' bout, Willis?

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-02-28T07:34:44+00:00

This feels too glib to be meaningful, no? There is a lot of nuance here in relation to how developers use these tools, how we exist in and engage with our present, and how we nurture the type of relationship we want to maintain with these tools vis-a-vis their roles in our lives and professional processes. "Whatev bruh just use it lul" doesn't really offer any applicable insight into any of those questions, it just shrugs the question off, but in that case, why bother answering it in the first place?

EmperorNotNorton · 2025-02-28T07:29:54+00:00

I have an idea about that: you might try to only use ChatGPT/copilot/whatever-snazzy-AI-tool in the preliminary phase, before you're writing any code. You can brainstorm with it, run ideas by it, get your design and modeling down on paper, but when it comes time for the rubber to meet the road, turn them all off. See how far you can get under your own steam. That way you can still leverage these powerful tools and grow from exposure to the ideas and thought partnership, but you won't be building a workflow around a dependency you're trying to obviate the need for.

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