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  1. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    You can just go to Quest Diagnostics (or wherever) and get whatever test you want done a la carte for far less money than that. No point in going through your PCP because your insurance won't pay for this because it's almost certainly snake oil as a functional product, even if there's some truth...
  2. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    I used an electric mower when I lived in Atlanta (plug-in, though, not battery). It was slightly less powerful than the gas but generally fine on thick grass. Managing the cord isn't really much of a hassle once you get used to mowing in a non-overlapping pattern. Plus you can buy three or four...
  3. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    That honestly doesn't sound like it could be the fault of your sled; it's got to be the saw itself. Did you somehow manage to jar your saw table so that your miter slots aren't parallel to the blade any more? Check thoroughly against the front and back of the blade with a dial indicator or at...
  4. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    If it's 3 kW and not 3kWh that sure sounds like an EV.
  5. Captain Suave

    Weight Loss Thread

    Can you have someone else shop for you with strict instructions to only buy healthy foods? Snacking stops feeling so good when you've eaten your 15th apple of the day and the next-tastiest thing is in the house is broccoli. Something else that helps is to drink a glass of water every time you...
  6. Captain Suave

    Weight Loss Thread

    At some point, and maybe only for certain peoiple, the suck factors can become addicting. I'm not a morning person and I absolutely hate it, but my days are better and my sleep is better if I force myself to get up at 6 and work out. It's incredibly easy to fall off the wagon, though.
  7. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    It makes sense for vertical miters and cross cuts. The angled miters and rip cuts really don't.
  8. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    This looks like an amazing way to lose focus and kill yourself. About halfway through he realizes that on a vertical (edit: angled) miter the blade could hit the tool post, never mind that the blade takes three fucking minutes to spin down. 😨
  9. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I shit you not I saw this exact car with this plate about two weeks ago. GIS coincidence.
  10. Captain Suave

    Weight Loss Thread

    Cleaning up your diet, drinking enough water, eliminating excessive alcohol and caffeine, and religiously getting enough sleep make WORLDS of difference.
  11. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Fuuuuuuuuck termites. That is all.
  12. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Oh, believe me, I agree no numbers should be taken at face value. I have an economics background and do optimization and forecasting for a living. Numbers can be made to say anything. I'm just saying that the nice thing about government numbers is they have to publish their data and methods so...
  13. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Are they? I definitely acknowledge the flatness is odd, but whether that's a legitimate outcome of the process or not none of us knows without auditing the calculations. My point is the information is available to see how those numbers were arrived at, which is necessary to know if they're bad...
  14. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    This stuff is auditable for anyone with the requisite patience. Here are the federal numbers. It's trivial to see the pre-seasonal adjustment data. The adjustment process is a whole can of worms I'm not going to read, but (I think) it's documented at the link at the end of this post. The...
  15. Captain Suave

    No Rest For The Wicked - A Souls Like ARPG

    No, 2. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/5FDE-BA65-ACCE-A411#:~:text=What%20can%20I%20request%20a,offline%20and%20shared%20library%20playtime).
  16. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Well ok then. We sure do accumulate some special people here. Agreed, already done.
  17. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  18. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Can we check IP records to see if this is an alt account of Araysar? The instant high-volume bromance on a two-year dormant account's first day of posting makes me wonder.
  19. Captain Suave

    The Stock Trading and Shitposting thread.

    Obviously, since the very first thing you did upon arrival was to tell longtime members they're doing it wrong. The fact that Foler and Araysar are on your side in this tells the rest of us all we need to know. Your condescension schtick doesn't change any of that.
  20. Captain Suave

    The Stock Trading and Shitposting thread.

    Please tell us more about what our threads are for, dude with 14 total posts all in the last 24 hours.
  21. Captain Suave

    No Rest For The Wicked - A Souls Like ARPG

    Eeeew. Worst mechanic ever.
  22. Captain Suave

    No Rest For The Wicked - A Souls Like ARPG

    I don't know about easier, but whoever is in charge of art direction at Moon Studios deserves a raise.
  23. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Burden of proof is on you; this doesn't pass the sniff test. If it were possible to reliably crank out returns from following a tiny number of the best-performing stocks in a short time window (which are definitionally only possible to identify in retrospect), the HFT folks would have long since...
  24. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    "Only buy winners!" Holy fuck, how did no one think of that?
  25. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Hope they checked the shade on those helmets, the cheap ones still aren't suitable for eclipse viewing.
  26. Captain Suave

    Usenet, NZB Indexers, Sickbeard, etc

    Dunno, my server runs 24/7 since it's also my NAS and Plex host. Edit: Just looked in the settings, don't see that option.
  27. Captain Suave

    Usenet, NZB Indexers, Sickbeard, etc

    Similar results with NZBGeek + NZBGet, which I'm using because it's a convenient install on my TrueNas server.
  28. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/florida-man-tells-ars-about-his-encounter-with-something-that-fell-from-space/
  29. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    I said bandsaw, and I meant for shop-made veneers, obviously. Just because they're thicker than the thinnest viable commercial alternative doesn't declassify them as veneers. What do you think people did before the giant industrial slicers existed? @whoo has more woodworking experience than...
  30. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    They could recycle assets from the previous games by having her return her own plundered artifacts to the original locations! Genius!
  31. Captain Suave

    No Rest For The Wicked - A Souls Like ARPG

    If the EA buzz is even half decent I'm saving this for release.
  32. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    So which is it? Yes, shop-made veneers are thicker and rougher than commercial but they definitely don't have 1/8" unavoidable error in the cuts. If there were always that much deflection it would be impossible. Here's Stumpy Nubs making cuts that are straight to within the set of his blade's...
  33. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    It's entirely possible that it was placebo. I was having so little fun that I spent a week eating yogurt, kimchi, miso, kombucha, all that shit, combined with the pills. Within a few days I felt tons better, but there's nothing scientific I can point to definitively.
  34. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Erm, this is kinda oxymoronic. A resaw cut is just a rip cut across the wider dimension. A bandsaw is the primary tool for cutting veneers and no one would accept 1/16th plus or minus 1/8. I think you need to get your saw tuned properly.
  35. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    I had one in November and it fucked up my gut flora for a solid two months (cramps with every meal, whee!) before I started taking nightly probiotics. The research isn't clear that they actually do anything, but it sure seemed to help me.
  36. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Bandsaws are WAY safer than table saws. You'd have to be moving fast and paying no attention at all to do that to yourself.
  37. Captain Suave

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Duh. Sorry, it's been a while. Somehow I thought there were portal restrictions on everything, but of course not.
  38. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    I have a DeWalt jobsite saw that is highly rated in its class. It's still uncomfortably wobbly and flexible with a bunch of runout and sloppy miter slots. As soon as I finish off updating my house (insualtion and electrical still to go) and cash flow supports it I'm getting a real cabinet saw...
  39. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Honestly, your fingernail is going to do fuck all vs carbide teeth and human reaction time isn't anywhere near fast enough to respond meaningfully to a 4500+ RPM table saw. In the 1/4 second it takes you to figure out what's going on the blade has made 20 full rotations and you'll have had ~1000...
  40. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    (Not a dig at @Siliconemelons)