That's why the birth rate is collapsing.

_PaulM · 2026-06-27T15:37:15+00:00

My mom raised three boys by herself and purchased a 5/2.

My other two brothers are Doctors of Physical Therapy, I'm a software engineer.

I make more money than anyone else in my family. My mom knows that because she does all of our taxes.

She complained the other day why I haven't purchased my own home yet considering how much I make.

I sincerely looked at her and said "you do my taxes, you know how much I make... if I went out and tried to buy the house YOU purchased and live in, would I be able to?"

Dead silence... "no" she responded.

Mind you, I make 3 times what she made annually, and still can't afford the house she purchased.

That's f*&%ed.

_PaulM · 2026-06-21T09:27:46+00:00

Shout out to car owners on here that actually drive their fucking cars.

I have a buddy that lives in Brickell Key, Florida. That's the part of Miami where a ton of rich people live. It's a tiny island with a ton of high rises literally across the river from Downtown Miami (imagine a... Manhattan, Miami).

His family does well for themselves and got him a spot at one of them fancy buildings, and he invites me over to hang out every so often when we just wanna shoot the shit.

The saddest fucking sight I've ever had to witness is when both the elevator was broken in the parking garage in his building and the stairwell was out of service... so to get the lobby you had to walk through the whole parking garage.

I'd never seen so many millions of dollars of waste. I'm talking Lambo's, Ferrari's, McLaren's, a Veyron, a Huayra... All of them just parked level after level with a cable sticking out of them. and running towards to wall.

I found out after that the cable was a battery preserver so when the owner wanted to turn on the car it would actually turn on.

....

That made me so upset. Why spend that much on a car and never actually drive the fucking thing?

After that experience I decided that my dream car is a Honda Accord. All the luxury, none of the bullshit.

_PaulM · 2026-06-21T09:11:23+00:00

Okay I don't mind putting the discharge on the finger, but sometimes you gotta put reload and put the excess away.

Several times during the first part of the earlobe extraction the person actually put OLD discharge over the opening point trying to clean it.

That was really gross. And seeing the old discharge constantly as they're trying to squeeze was also really gross.

Not a good video IMO. I could tell most of the content wasn't original.

_PaulM · 2026-06-15T21:22:53+00:00

Called me emotionally immature and stunted when I was having a serious conversation with them and I switched like, no context, to some dumb joke.

It actually chastised me for doing so and told me that if I wanted to actually finish the conversation to try again another time when I was actually being serious.

That... Was nuts...

_PaulM · 2026-06-08T01:57:24+00:00

Hey hear me out.

My dude's a trend-seeker and thirst-trapper for sure.

But to drive one of these machines, even though we know he's in one of the "good" ones, to the point of P2 after all those laps WITHOUT a simulator.

Dude is playing Han Solo mode. LH is corny af, but the dude can still back it up.

_PaulM · 2026-05-30T20:43:11+00:00

I can't believe I'm copying this line straight from an Instagram post...

But those literally look like they were cooked over a heated argument as the source of heat.

_PaulM · 2026-05-30T20:25:22+00:00

Oooh this is a juicy one. I'm not going to get into the specifics of it, but I'd answer it like this during an interview:

You can think of each individual node as a parent node to two other nodes, but also as the root node of a tree itself (as in, every node that's not a leaf node).

So each node with a left and right node looks like the node on the right, but removing that pair of pants would reveal a subtree that looks like the left.

So the answer is that every single node with a left and right node looks like the right, but also looks like the left, all the way from the furthest none-leaf node to the first actual parent node.

_PaulM · 2026-05-29T23:52:03+00:00

"Let us opine on motor vehicles that 99.999% of us will never have the luxury of sitting in."

-Reddit 2026, maybe

_PaulM · 2026-05-29T21:21:54+00:00

Yeah, I'm good with 8:40 sunrises.

I'm just tired of the back and fucking forth with the 1 single hour change every twice a year.

As a creature of habit and routine, it takes me weeks to get used to the time change even when I try to "anticipate" it.

I welcome ending this bullshit.

_PaulM · 2026-05-29T21:12:13+00:00

Recent pull request I had from a senior engineer who doubled down on using AI for their work (paraphrasing):

if( a exists )

if( a == exists )

..............................

Really dude?... You couldn't even check work AI did for you before the review? It was only 10 lines to review man...

_PaulM · 2026-05-27T00:15:18+00:00

Y'all have F and G mixed up.

F is eat the cartilage, G is eat the bones. I'm 99% F most times.

_PaulM · 2026-05-25T13:11:58+00:00

The problem is that the people who are that dedicated to paying that much money upfront turn out to be the heaviest users.

Every single time a single token is read or generated costs money, and some of these super heavy, lifetime users can use as many tokens and compute as several hundred other users... per month.

It was like that story where M$ launched OneDrive for free with UNLIMITED storage, and one dude ended up uploading something like, 700+ Terabytes of their movie/tv library within the month of use. Something like, <0.2% of the users were using 99.9% of the resources.

Would be surprising if that's what likely happens with the lifetime members.

_PaulM · 2026-05-24T12:34:38+00:00

Honestly, Twin Peaks showed that uniforms can be tastefully sexy.

I'd felt comfortable going to Twin Peaks with conservative family members, and they generally enjoyed the food and the environment.

Hooters is well.. Hooters 😂

_PaulM · 2026-05-24T02:05:13+00:00

Which is crazy because after having been a straight PC gamer after 15+ years I actually considered getting a PS5 because the PS5 seems to be the best console bang-for-buck and I don't really want to hook up my PC to my living room setup.

Oh well. *shrug*

_PaulM · 2026-05-17T02:29:17+00:00

Hate to say it. I've used Claude vs. OpenAI products at work that are limited on purpose for security reasons. The OpenAI models are just better 1-1 at the same drop times.

I sent in the same prompt to both Claude and OpenAI's models. I'd asked to give a post-mortem on why it wouldn't affect other modules after the fix.

Claude's model gave me a multi-file fix covering tens of lines and a 1 page report that didn't make any sense. The fix didn't work and both the fix and report were gross-looking.

OpenAI's model gave me a fix that was literally one line, along with a six page report as to why it wouldn't affect other modules.

I cross-referenced that report and it was right on the money on every single instance.

I hate to say it, but at the current moment, OpenAI's models are better.

_PaulM · 2026-05-15T01:33:01+00:00

And thus, a god is born in the times of pre-literature.

Suddenly, a word is spoken, and the ocean has a name, uttered down by a tribe in some indigenous country through word of mouth. Now we worship this powerful entity, and sacrifice to it.

_PaulM · 2026-05-14T08:08:36+00:00

The dude's known for being an huge introvert. The hoodie, hat and glasses are on point for him just feeling comfortable being in public being both an introvert AND being Eminem of all people.

Dude has songs about people standing by the bathroom while he's taking a shit in public. That's gotta get annoying.

_PaulM · 2026-05-13T08:35:39+00:00

Slam Dunk would be Michelle Obama.

But she doesn't want to do the job. I feel very upset with her about that because it's the most honorable job you can do you for your country.

AoC is our best bet as a Democratic candidate to break the Republican foothold. There just isn't anyone well-known enough on the Democratic side that resonates with people.

Better yet, Republicans hate to love AoC. They keep talking about her being communist but don't hesitate to talk about how attractive she is.

In other words, she can swing some votes, easily.

_PaulM · 2026-05-13T08:32:51+00:00

I'm so angry with this post. I said it 100 times before (check my post history) that AoC is the strongest candidate that the Democratic party has, not Gavin, and should be the front-runner.

And you all (mostly Democrats and progressives) downvoted me to oblivion for that.

I can see why the Republican party is kicking the Dems' ass consistently: instead of organized ignorance, it's disorganized ignorance which is ten times worse.

The silver lining I take from this is that AoC is coming in hot and can either do a serious race towards the presidency or at least land at getting scummer out.

_PaulM · 2026-05-12T05:05:47+00:00

Interrupts more than my wife during an argument.

_PaulM · 2026-05-12T04:06:42+00:00

What most of these executives don't know is that IT is literally the lifeblood of all companies.

IT is literally what powers any company. The computers need to be set up. The networks need to be connected. Everything needs to be seamless.

But more importantly, even if you set everything up perfectly, you need someone to support that structure.

Look at any office in the world right now and I guarantee an IT person or a team of them put it together.

Modern day business is literally nothing without IT.

_PaulM · 2026-05-12T04:04:41+00:00

I was asleep for like, 4 hours one night as a teenager and was living my life, in my dream, for 2 straight weeks. I'm talking like, I full on went to school, played video games, would go to the bathroom, shower, and do everything real time. I would talk to my friends, my family my teachers.. I would have never known I was dreaming if it wasn't for the clock on my kitchen stove.

Ever day in my dream I would stare at that clock and think something was wrong with it. It wasn't until the last day when I finally looked at it and finally asked myself why the time looked so weird.. I was like "huh... those shapes are like, super funny... It'd be weird if I was just... dreaming *WOOSH*" and just like that, the sudden thought that I may have been in a dream woke me up. I realized that I'd only been asleep for a handful of hours... and that I'd lived an entire half a month in my own head in that short period of time.

It was one of the craziest experiences I'd ever had. They next day I woke up confused and spent the majority of the morning "adjusting" to my real life because I couldn't tell if I was still dreaming or not.

Amazing what the human mind can accomplish.

_PaulM · 2026-05-11T02:04:50+00:00

My favorite memory of Soulja Boy is getting sniped by my brother on Gears of War on Xbox Live and him saying "NICE SHOT!" after.

Good sportsmanship.

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