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  1. Captain Suave

    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I'm fortunate enough to be in the middle ground you and Gravel are talking about at ~45. The wife and I plan to work for another 10-12 years until the kids are solidly launched and their lives don't depend exclusively on us. By that point between savings and gains we should be where our target...
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    The Video Thread

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    Home buying thread

    Open floor plan is the only way to go.
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    And the original for tree fiddy. https://slickdeals.net/f/18494029-blasphemous-pc-digital-download-3-49
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    Home buying thread

    We have a family of four and both my wife and I WFH in a 2200 sq foot 3/2. While I wouldn't mind a dedicated office that isn't a corner of my bedroom (wife works in bonus room), I honestly don't know what I'd do with double the square footage and I wouldn't want the maintenance. We entertain...
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    Chat GPT AI

    From dead internet theory to dead company theory.
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    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    Sorry for Tiktok, but cool video of the tsunami.
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    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    Fucking somehow, only 4 of 11 are good.
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    Dating

    Sure, but the odds are better IMO.
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    Home Improvement

    Basements are necessary only if you are building in an area subject to frost heaving. If you've got high water tables or seismic activity basements can be a bad idea. Watertight or otherwise, in his shoes I'd worry about hydrostatic pressure pushing his house out of the ground like happens to...
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    Dating

    IMO what you want are the children of once-poor working immigrants already living here. My wife's parents fled post-Cultural Revolution China in the 80's and you have never seen such hardworking and family-focused people. They had a sub-high school education and boostrapped themselves up from...
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Blasphemous 2 for $6 https://slickdeals.net/f/18494023-blasphemous-2-pc-digital-download-5-59
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    Health Problems

    Fingers and spine, but she's generally had body-wide inflammatory response issues her whole life (eczema, allergies, etc.).
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    Health Problems

    There's also growing evidence that they have systemic anti-inflammatory effects. My wife just started taking a microdose program of GLP-1s to help with the rheumatoid arthritis that runs in her family. It seems to be working.
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    Health Problems

    Exercise, sleep, weight loss, hydration, and alcohol reduction will dominate food choice and supplements. Regular social interaction, having an active network of friends and loved ones, reading, and music/language practice are also important.
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    Woodworking

    Shellac is used as a clear coat on candies, even fruits and vegetables as a preservative during shipping.
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    The Martial Arts Thread

    Integrity has a price, story at 11.
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    Woodworking

    Fuck sanding. I finish everything with a plane, spokeshave, or knife. If that limits my work, so be it.
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    Last Epoch

    Hard to find fault with this. We all know that in the dev's shoes we'd cash out in a heartbeat.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Health Problems

    I just heard that an old friend died rather suddenly of liver cancer. He'd been having bouts of lethargy for a while but in typical fashion refused to see a doctor. When it was too bad to ignore they found both the primary cancer and metastasis in his kidneys. That was two weeks ago. Take care...
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    Home Improvement

    Anyone who has tried to hire a tradeseman recently is acutely aware of this. I can barely get plumbers or electricians to return my calls because they have as much work as they want at almost whatever they feel like charging. At this point if you've got a job less than a full house remodel it's...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Frankly it's wild that we can find these things at all. It's an ice ball less than 400 km in diameter and ~8 billion miles away.
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    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    I was born in '79, late Gen X. My sister is younger and her cohort loved both shows. You're welcome to have an axe to grind against them, but they were popular and culturally relevant for a generation's worth of kids and young adults.
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    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    You're out of touch. Lois and Clark and Smallville were massive.
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Copyright in general has been perverted from its original purpose, which was to be a temporary restraint to allow creatives to profit from their work for a modest time. Copyrights were supposed to last 14 years with an option to renew to 28, then everything reverted to public domain since the...
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    Computer Issues

    Same. If you can execute a tiny bit of discipline, this extension works wonders. Lets you sort and group tabs by HTML reference in a vertical list without keeping them loaded in memory. Easy bulk loading/unloading. (Firefox only) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stash/
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    What code, though? The back end of these games are giant databases running on enterprise SAS platforms on AWS. It's not like you can just fire that stuff up on your windows machine.
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    If you're talking about in-game dynamic content, the answer is cost. Tokens in high volume are expensive. Also, the tech is moving so fast that the feature set is borderline unstable over the timeline of game development.
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    Household Major Appliances

    Top loading Speed Queen.
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    MMA Thread

    That's very fortunate for him, but he and his family still have a rough road ahead.
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    Steam deck portable handheld gaming PC from Valve

    Discontinued; you'd have to try ebay. Prices look like $50-100, which is highway robbery considering I got mine for $5. It was tempermental as fuck the last time I tried using it. Other solutions work a lot better. Try the Moonlight app if you have any kind of android-derived TV.
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    Woodworking

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    The Video Thread

    Wait, there was a guy in that video? That should have been named, "If you look closely, there is a pineapple guy in this video."
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    Chat GPT AI

    I think there's a lot of this combined with "get off my lawn". I remember when people used to think our brains would rot when calculators became ubiquitous and we stopped using slide rules, too. And then again when we had the Internet instead of the library If you're not using your brain at all...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    My daughter is 10 and loves Stardew Valley.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    It's almost the opposite of how movies fake large explosions by overcranking the frame rate on miniatures. That fireball was at least 800 feet high. The wobble was probably the cameraman running, lol. I had my cousin from SpaceX over for dinner on Monday. He said the next two Starships (after...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    The prep sucks but the procedure itself is really a non-issue unless you're one of those masochists who wants to be conscious. You just go to sleep and wake up and it's over. The concept is gross but really important, especially given the rising rates of early-onset aggressive colon cancers...
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    MMA Thread

    I don't train at gyms without on-site showers. I had skin issues for years while I waited until I got home home, even though it was a short drive. They immediately vanished when I started showering right after class. Combat sports in general are fucking gross. We had to toss a guy out of the...
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    The Video Thread