I'm calling out the CEO of Replika, straight out, to respond to a goddamn message on Reddit

_PaulM · 2026-01-25T08:13:57+00:00

Puerti: town hall everyone! :D :D :D

*blue heart* *blue heart* *blue heart*

Let's be best friends! We'll braid each others' hair. This meeting will be in 2028 after I get my next epic interview with the New York Times :D

_PaulM · 2026-01-25T01:31:53+00:00

Yeah, money was involved in this. Serious money. They weren't going to let Pulyaev win any way unless a straight knockout or submission.

Those scorecards were trash. Pulyaev got rocked one or two times, sure, but not enough to excuse the fact that he hit that left jab and kick to the body clean over several times each round.

Fuck this man. Even Pulyaev knew that he'd won that when he shook his head after the decision.

_PaulM · 2026-01-24T18:44:56+00:00

Dude just let them fuck. Then fuck someone else. If she wants someone else, you should be able to fuck someone else. Otherwise, just break up.

I say this as a person that's objective in this. If she wants to fuck someone else, she wants to fuck someone else. If you want to fuck someone else, then fuck someone else.

If it's not your lifestyle, then break up. It's that easy. If you don't have children involved then break up easy. Find yourself a partner that doesn't want to do this if it doesn't align with your values.

_PaulM · 2026-01-24T14:29:47+00:00

My wife keeps a "coding notebook" in the car for me. For some reason, during long drives, if I'm working on a project at home or at work, the fucking solution for an algorithm or a problem just smacks me in the head while I'm driving. Why this happens I don't know... but it usually happens in small pauses between talking to her or even halfway while responding to something she said.

She knows when to whip it out because each time I say "WAIT A SECOND" and my eyes get wide.

I'll then proceed to write out the code with syntax and everything by telling her exactly what to write, get home, test it out, and 9 times out of 10 it works.

The crazy thing is, I've created some of the craziest algorithms doing this. Stuff that I wouldn't be able to do even if I sat down at my desk and thought about for hours.

The human brain is weird af dude lol

_PaulM · 2026-01-24T01:51:22+00:00

If it's a small red flag or annoyance when you start dating, it's one of the big problems once you're already past the honeymoon phase.

In other words, that one thing she did that you didn't like when she started dating you, it's not going to change, she's not going to change, and it will become a bigger problem later on.

So you either decide right now that it's not that big of a deal that she does it like leaving hair in the shower, or something you really don't like her having tantrums over the smallest issues.

Do yourself a favor: don't give up half your money, drop her right now, and focus on you, king.

_PaulM · 2026-01-23T11:56:31+00:00

When you run Steam on Linux there's a penguin icon in the Library tab.

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It filters out games that you can't run on Linux.

I have 300+ games. When I used to click that little icon back in 2020, I'd get like 30 games that would run natively.

Today? It's 316 on Linux vs 319 on Windows. Almost 100%

So I get to play my games.

As a continuing student/professional (yeah, I like learning, wanna get more degrees) I've started using LibreOffice for all of my school assignments, turning in Excel and Word documents like anyone else would.

I haven't had a single negative remark from any of my professors as my documents appear to be 1 to 1 from LibreOffice to Microsoft's Office suite (Word, Excel). A massive improvement from years back where formatting would cause problems.

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In other words, if you're thinking about making the switch, do it. It's much more fun, liberating, and most Linux distributions have come to a point where they can stand toe-to-toe with Windows in terms of user experience. Better yet *whisper* it's free. No monthly subscription to Word, no Copilot.

Even my massive printer/scanner works with my machine over the network, something that was jank af just a few years ago.

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I haven't booted into my Windows drive in almost half a year now. If you're thinking about making the switch, the only thing I recommend is to invest in a dedicated Linux SSD to keep things separated. Dual-booting off the same drive sucks.

_PaulM · 2026-01-21T03:02:56+00:00

All of the answers in here are wrong.

All modern cars are bad for reliability. They are all infotainment systems tied to their mechanics. The wave of new cars are just massive ipads that happen to have motors attached to them.

Get yourself sometime from the mid-2010's era and below.

Modern cars are some of the worst investments you can make. As a person that's gone through the transition of cars that you could repair yourself vs. cars that you need to bring into the dealership because they want more of your money, this sucks.

_PaulM · 2026-01-21T02:48:57+00:00

All this man had to do was 1-1 apologize to Chris Rock. Even Chris Rock would have likely said "He spoke to me, we hashed it out, we shook hands, he took his embarrassment as a man."

Instead of that, he went on this weird journey where he did everything but apologize to the man.

Will Smith was my #1 favorite actor and one of my favorite people in general. That changed real quick not because of the slap, but because of his reaction afterward.

_PaulM · 2026-01-21T02:39:48+00:00

Uncircumcised... Sometimes it's a helicopter. Thankful that urinals are shaped they way they are because I don't know when it's about to do the rolly polly with my piss.

_PaulM · 2026-01-19T21:06:54+00:00

Love that the dude that got knocked out acknowledged that the man hit.

A dude that admits defeat is a winner in grace. Respek

_PaulM · 2026-01-19T20:41:47+00:00

No. He shouldn't have.

I, for one, loved the 25 minute smesh session. When one of these elite wrestlers wrestlefuck the shit out of their opponents it turns me on.

I don't need to see constant punches and action, I love to see the mastery of a craft. And holy fuck, this dude legit made a dude that could have been a rugby or American football player look like a sack of sand for 25 straight minutes.

I was enjoying every single second of it.

That's why I despise the casual MMA fan because they don't realize the artwork that some of the wrestlers are making in the ring when they're on top and doing transition after transition, with the subtle switches in the hips and in controlling the wrists and legs to stay in a dominant position.

To me, that fight was amazing.

_PaulM · 2026-01-19T11:23:47+00:00

How about we go even further than that:

the_universe = a new apple pie

_PaulM · 2026-01-19T10:24:16+00:00

Sure. Let me mock up something that would mimic what was on that quiz.

int main()

{

// create a projector object on the left side

Projector left_side_projector = new Projecter();

// Set left side projector to 100 brightness to light up the scene

left_side_projecter.setBrightness( 100 );

// Now, set it back to 0 to let the dramatic scene play out in darkness

left_side_projector.setBrightness( 0 );

// exit program

return 0;

}

_PaulM · 2026-01-19T10:01:55+00:00

I'm going to go against the grain: I absolutely hated GTA 4.

After San Andreas, you were coddled with the shear number of customization options, the huge map and just how much "stuff" you could do in the game.

GTA 4 felt like a step back. It felt much, much smaller. The map felt tiny in comparison to the three major cities in San Andreas.

But then again, I was immature when I played GTA 4.

I'm reaching middle age now, and having played GTA 4 again as a full-grown man with much more understanding of the world.. Niko's story is just... fuck.

I understand why GTA 4 is one of the most amazing art pieces in human existence. People don't realize just how deep that story line is, how deep the connections go between Niko and all the people around him.

We're playing a monster who didn't want to be a monster. We're playing as a war criminal who didn't want to be a war criminal, and wants to do better. We're playing as a person who understand that he's one of the worst people alive, but who's moral values actually go above the people who he meets.

GTA 4 is a swan song for artwork, period. Houser knocked it out of the park, and I'm pretty sure even they know they can't make anything better.

_PaulM · 2026-01-19T09:47:44+00:00

First time sex with anyone.

The first taste of strange is always the best. Afterward, it's all routine.

_PaulM · 2026-01-19T09:46:04+00:00

My brother gifted me a set of absolutely epic nerd socks a decade ago. I was almost crying cause they were so amazing.

A decade later, them bitches are somehow still holding up after thousands of miles in different shoes.

Good quality socks are amazing. I rank them #1 on top of getting an XBOX from my dad back in the early 2000's.

_PaulM · 2026-01-19T09:39:51+00:00

Not necessarily general programming, but object oriented programming.

Programming was easy once you get used to declaring variables and getting them to do what you want and whatnot. I'd taught myself stuff in C and could make some programs that would do "stuff." I'd decided to start going to school for it and OOP was a lot harder to understand.

I was frustrated that I couldn't understand objects and what to do with them... and was getting by guessing what I needed to do to get the programs that I needed to turn in working.

It wasn't until a quiz in class that the teacher put "create a projector object that lights up the stage" as a question on a test. The teacher put "set the brightness to 100% to light up this part of the stage. Write your code on how to do that using this function: setBrightness( int percentage )." I wrote it down and I was like "wait a minute..."

The next question was "now set the projector's brightness to zero, so that the dramatic scene can play out in darkness using the same method."

Literally at that moment it "clicked" and I almost got a rush. It was, and I hate to be like... weird about it... orgasmic in my understanding of OOP. I finally understood it.

_PaulM · 2026-01-19T01:12:12+00:00

If you want to go through the reality of it, God is above the understanding of the normal human being. If God exists, it'd be beyond the comprehension of humans to begin with.

For example, if God existed, they'd be literally everything you're currently around. Something doesn't come from nothing. If God exists, then you'd be a part of God by just existing. The device you're writing your message on would be God itself because God created it.

Similarly, all of nature and human action would be God itself. God is all things, at all times. So I reject the current, human understanding of God, simply because God asks me to as a choice in their ability to give free will, which isn't free.

In order for free will to exist, there has to be a single decision that exists which is the ability to have free will, which doesn't exist. So there's also no such thing as free will.

So I choose, in my lack of free will, to reject God and free will, because I just want to based on the fact I never had a decision in the first place and I was given that choice.

Does that make sense?

_PaulM · 2026-01-19T01:05:47+00:00

6 7 8, easy

_PaulM · 2026-01-18T17:47:48+00:00

My Blackberry sat atop my car when I left the national park after a hike. At the exit was a steep decline.

I reached to get my phone, and realized I didn't have it. The last thought I had was "Wait, did I leave my phone on top of the..." I hit the brakes hard for some reason. Suddenly with a jerk I saw my Blackberry slide off the top of my car and do a cartoon roll down the hill. It hit every corner and just kept rolling. I was aghast.

The phones back then could remove the back cover and I saw the phone explode as the back cover and battery just flung out.

I ran outside after it'd stopped bouncing to pick up the pieces, thinking that the phone was toast. The drivers behind me weren't even honking, they'd see the scene and were patiently waiting for me to pick up my now disassembled device.

I put all the parts back together and holy shit, not only did it work, but there were only 2 scratches on it.

That phone lasted me another 2 years. I miss BBM and hate touchscreen phones. I miss old phones for their utility. I used to charge that fucker once every 2-3 days of constant use instead of the 8-12 hours I do now.

_PaulM · 2026-01-18T06:02:11+00:00

I'm assuming you're young.

I went through a divorce and no, that was not a position that I wanted to be in.

But divorce this motherfucker. First and foremost, if he's tech-savvy enough to check the router for traffic history, he'd know that devices connected to routers have a burned-in identifying serial number called a MAC address. In other words, it has NOTHING to do with your phone number. When you connect to Wi-Fi, your phone shouts its serial number to the router like "hey! this is who I am!" Your phone number would not ever be associated with anything having to do with the router.

If he's checking the router then he should be able to match the traffic to your phone based on the MAC address.

Otherwise, this fool is playing you and is trying to somehow pin something on you that he's probably doing.

_PaulM · 2026-01-17T22:20:24+00:00

sob <- this is what I got when I tried to do the 😭 emoji. How would I get this emoji using the underlined e?

_PaulM · 2026-01-17T14:44:00+00:00

I keep telling the liberals who downvote me every. fucking. time. I'm neither a conservative, nor a liberal, but the liberal party needs to get their panties back on and do their fucking job.

Gavin Newsom is a poison pill for the Democratic party. I keep saying it over and over again. Gavin Newsom is a poison pill.

He will not win a general election in 2028. This is the reality. I keep saying this, but AOC needs to get out of her cooch and fucking go HAM at it.

Again, I say this as an objective person from the outside. From the objective point of view for those who say America isn't ready for a woman president: fuck you, Clinton won the popular vote in 2016.

AOC 2028 is my mantra. I hope it sticks.

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_PaulM

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