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  1. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Yeah, that works as far as I know. The wood doesn't have as much juglone as the fruit, but it should at least stunt the growth of whatever's there.
  2. Captain Suave

    Diablo Immortal

    I think the PoE tabs are fine. I understand that games don't get made or operated for free and that F2P mode is basically loss-leader advertising. For roughly the price of an off the shelf game I can buy a few tabs that will comfortably last through hundreds of hours of gameplay and apply to all...
  3. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    After having been a Comcast customer for 15 year in Atlanta, I might pay $5k to not be serviced by Comcast.
  4. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Be careful; walnut sawdust is a known lung irritant. Repeated exposure can lead to pretty nasty respiratory and skin allergies and is associated with nasal cancer. (This is beyond the normal lung fibrosis from all fine dust.) It's also wickedly toxic to animals like horses and some dogs.
  5. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    The Saudis don't give public information on their capacity for obvious reasons, but the last I'd looked into it I thought it was reasonably well accepted that their maximum output is about 12.5B barrels per day, which is roughly their current production rate. I don't think it's a question of...
  6. Captain Suave

    Diablo Immortal

    God no, fuck meta-quests. I want to play, not check off a virtual grocery list. The justification for what you're doing should be internal to the game. If you want the players to do a particular thing, just make it fun and up the reward rate and they'll self-motivate.
  7. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    tldw; start at 1:20
  8. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    FYI, Amazon has a sale on Freud table saw blades and 8'' dado stack. https://slickdeals.net/f/15834781-freud-saw-blade-deals-amazon-from-northern-freud-lu84r011-10-comb-47-99-more-in-thread-lm75r010-lu86r010-sd208-dado-stack-some-from-amazon
  9. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Is that the Izzy Swan design?
  10. Captain Suave

    Losing Interest

    I meant the credit card part. No one should carry credit card debt. If you can afford it, light the money on fire for all I care.
  11. Captain Suave

    Losing Interest

    No one should ever do B.
  12. Captain Suave

    Diablo Immortal

    If you think this game is bullshit the most meaningful thing you can do is not participate in its ecosystem.
  13. Captain Suave

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Same, but I've discovered that a little physical assertiveness IS what pleases some women. YMMV.
  14. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Houses around me in LA are starting to be on market 1-2 months instead of 3-4 days. Common to see modest price reductions. (Prices are still high; reductions are probably people trying to extend the increase trends of last year and realizing they missed the boat.) Maybe some sanity is returning.
  15. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    That probably just doesn't have enough power. The low end band saws are mostly for cutting curves in 3/4 stock or smaller. Need more beef for resawing. I bought an early 70's Delta 14 recently and it struggles with anything more than about 6 inches. High end models will do 18 inches+.
  16. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    You kinda have to ask, though. My wife and I have always owned 75-100 lbs dogs and no landlord anywhere advertises that at first pass. We've always offered to put down an additional deposit for pet damages and it's a non-issue.
  17. Captain Suave

    Losing Interest

    Cannot recommend martial arts enough. I was borderline depressive for my entire life up until I graduated from college and started training. The physical awareness, control, and confidence is utterly transformative in every other aspect of your life. Plus you'll meet a cross section of people...
  18. Captain Suave

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I have similar experiences to both of you guys. I think as we get older life stresses simply start to edge out libido gratification to some degree. Most of my sex is on weekend mornings when we're both rested and not thinking about job/morning meetings/kids/etc. As far as participation in sex...
  19. Captain Suave

    Diablo Immortal

    I gave it a couple hours and uninstalled. The moment to moment gameplay was surprisingly smooth and intuitive, but the gear and leveling mechanics are just so fucking bland I don't see what the appeal is. Edit: Plus it absolutely raped my phone battery to the tune of 1% a minute.
  20. Captain Suave

    Will Wight

    Dude's a machine. He's giving Sanderson a run for his money on output.
  21. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    McKinsey... The company you go to when you feel like paying $10M-$50M in order to train some recent MBA grads to learn your business and feed you back platitudes right off the top of the "If it were that fucking easy we'd be doing it already" pile.
  22. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    The voicing in the second half of this arrangement is fucking wild.
  23. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Basically any functioning tablesaw with a square fence should cut straight enough for any purposes except fine joinery. If you're cutting construction lumber, I'd bet what you're seeing is the wood itself bowing or cupping after the cut as internal stresses are released. You'll need to re-joint...
  24. Captain Suave

    Diablo Immortal

    Well that's one up on me. PC version immediately crashes to desktop when I hit "Tap to Play" on the opening screen. Edit: Working now. Controllers are completely FUBAR.
  25. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm sure you could find $8 next to LAX or something, but you'd be an idiot to buy there. It's ~$5.50 down the street from me (which still sucks).
  26. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    I assume that includes the differential in premiums? In any combination of plans my wife and I have ever been offered, the HDHP is superior at any claims level from zero to $50k+, and at the level of $6k a year with no claims. That gap drops to $3500/yr if we had up to the deductible in claims...
  27. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Edit: Huh. Well shit. Actually there is no earned income requirement on HSAs. TIL. https://www.irahelp.com/slottreport/how-you-can-utilize-hsa-now-save-retirement
  28. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Anyone who has the choice should absolutely take HDHP plans with HSAs, though. I've done the math pretty carefully and they're categorically better, across any range of claims, than any PPO/HMO plan I've seen. Other plans are just outsourcing your cash flow management to your insurance company...
  29. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    No. HSA contributions are made by payroll deduction so they come straight off the top (employer contributions are separate). As far as I know there are no exceptions to needing earned income that you control, at least any that provide a financial advantage.
  30. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Looks nice! In my limited experience, chattering is from insufficient sharpening and/or not stropping the plane irons often enough during the work. I see that Task doweling jig a lot and haven't heard a complaint about it.
  31. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Trauma makes bones denser, yes.
  32. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, thanks. What I wrote was a bit sloppy. All of this is why tax prep software exists.
  33. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Frankly, I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often. Blasting your shins into rigid objects with your foot as a weight providing torque on the end of the fulcrum just seems like a bad idea.
  34. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    No, and yes, respectively. AGI == "earned income". Any tax-advantaged savings you put aside reduces your pool available for simlar purposes. Alternatively stated, you must have a taxable income at least equal to the total of all 401k/roth/SEP/traditional IRA/HSA/etc. contributions (or at least...
  35. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    If the money was earned in another year, he's missed the contribution deadline. I think, as you suggest, Locnar missed the fact that 401k contributions reduce your earned income. He wants to double dip, but it doesn't work like that.
  36. Captain Suave

    Diablo Immortal

    Fortunately, sane people don't give a fuck about Diablo PvP. (It's still entirely possible that the PvE progression sucks F2P.)
  37. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    That's not how it's referred to around here. I've put down bids in exactly that position and they weren't considered cash offers. Totally unfinanced deals are becoming increasingly common.
  38. Captain Suave

    Browser Plugins

    Edit your hosts file to vaporize all traffic to/from Twitter.
  39. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    This. Any of us who is aware of what's actually on the internet knows that kids can and will find it, and need supervision.
  40. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    GIS got it on the first link.