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  1. Captain Suave

    Death and... Taxes.

    My sister's return from 2019 still hasn't been processed.
  2. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    That's fucking bananas. When I had my meniscus repaired (bucket handle, lateral, so similar injury) I was on crutches and zero weight bearing for 3 months. I didn't have full license for athletics until 9 months, and it retrospect even that was relatively aggressive. Those tissues can't heal...
  3. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    I might up that to 9 months, with allowances for extended rehab if there has been a serious injury. But it should be a published timeline and not totally fucking arbitrary as this obviously is from looking at the history.
  4. Captain Suave

    Summer Olympics 2021

    I understand that those are the rules, they're just dumb rules. I say this as a lifelong martial artist myself. While there is a place for the exercise of precision and control to the exclusion of all else, the more you abstract from full power application the less effective your martial art gets.
  5. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    He did NOT like the power he was feeling. Those leg kicks were gnarly and he did fuck all to check.
  6. Captain Suave

    Summer Olympics 2021

    Further Olympic lulz. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/olympics/germany-s-modern-pentathlon-coach-kicked-out-olympics-punching-horse-n1276251
  7. Captain Suave

    Summer Olympics 2021

    #1 bullshit. This is an embarrassment to combat sports. I just showed this to my wife and her reaction was, "WHAT??? Go home, you pussies!" Lol.
  8. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Yeah, basically that except the tree and saw were directly above him. The dumb fucker's plan was literally to jump off the ladder as it fell. Much to the dismay of Darwin, it worked.
  9. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Sooo, not like the gardner my landlord called after a windstorm, who was standing on a ladder cutting a trunk suspended directly above him, wearing flip flops and no PPE of any kind, not even sunglasses?
  10. Captain Suave

    Summer Olympics 2021

    How would you measure this, though? Since all non-Africans ultimately derive from a small group that left the continent, there's actually more genetic diversity between neighboring ethic tribes there than there is between Sweden and China.
  11. Captain Suave

    Summer Olympics 2021

    Because then none of the events would have competitors from more than a half dozen countries. USA/PRC/AU/GB/RU plus 2-3 wildcards where the country happens to specialize. You'd probably get half the ad revenue.
  12. Captain Suave

    Lost Ark Online

    **laughs in dad** Whatever gaming I get comes in ten-minute increments.
  13. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    That's probably "down" for reentry. Most return craft only have tiles on one side.
  14. Captain Suave

    Grime

    It happened to me with the demo. No issues with the release version. 2070 Super/144hz GSync monitor.
  15. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Re: Space mining.
  16. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Except it's not a legal framework, just a practical reality of cost/benefit. We already do or don't import/export any number of things based on cost (although obviously we seem to have mostly figured out global transport to a workable level). The interesting part will be how we try to monetize...
  17. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Little late to the party on the response, but two major challenges with the idea of asteroid mining for use/sale on Earth: 1) Orbits. The fuel budget get a significant mass from the asteroid belt to Earth's orbit is ruinous. We are orbiting the sun at ~30 km/s. At the altitude of the asteroid...
  18. Captain Suave

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    It's actually just cornstarch at $300/oz.
  19. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    3M reusable respirator & Filters (note P100 rating vs N95 - these get 99.97% of particulates vs 95% plus some protection vs organic vapors). You want these filters if you're dealing with volatile chemical vapors that are present in some finishes. It's more a expensive solution than 95's (but...
  20. Captain Suave

    Grime

    Demo was good. This one is definitely on my list.
  21. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    And this, boys and girls, is why anyone who tells you there's a reliable hand-to-hand solution to multiple competent attackers is lying (unless the solution is track shoes).
  22. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    I had one like that. There was a spot of scar tissue on my shin for literally four years that would periodically get inflamed. At one point in high school I got tired of it and poked at it with a needle and a fully 1.5'' splinter came out. Thinking back, in elementary school I had fallen and...
  23. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    https://www.point2homes.com/US/Neighborhood/FL/Orlando/Lake-Nona-Demographics.html $100k mean, $83k median household income, 86% white collar. Make of that what you will.
  24. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    That was the year I bought my first CD player and those were the exact set of first albums I bought. What a great year for music.
  25. Captain Suave

    Ender Lillies: Quietus of the Knights

    I'm a huge sucker for metroidvanias, but this one felt a little flat for me. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't anything special either. A- for polish and style, B for fun.
  26. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    You and my wife should start a club.
  27. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    "Went in for a MRI today, found out that I suffered a displaced Bucket Handle tear of the Lateral Meniscus" Good luck to him; he'll be out at least 9 months unless he really rolls the dice on letting it heal properly. This is the exact injury I had (in both knees, FML). On my right the repair...
  28. Captain Suave

    Summer Olympics 2021

    I don't care about the media coverage or if she even competes and totally shits the bed. Going out healthy and whining screws some other competitor out of the opportunity of a lifetime because she can't handle and off day. That should be an instant permaban in any team environment and I hope it...
  29. Captain Suave

    Weight Loss Thread

    To get BMI you only need to measure your height (m) and mass (kg) and calculate mass/height^2. No exotic scans required. It's dead simple, which is also why on an individual basis it's a not an especially useful measure of health. (I'm 5'10'' and when I'm ~175 I have visible abs and yet my BMI...
  30. Captain Suave

    Summer Olympics 2021

    VPN to Canada and watch the CBC coverage. You can watch every minute of every sport with full replay at your leisure.
  31. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    My daughter had really bad acid reflux and needed to be completely vertical, which meant I strapped her into a carrier sitting in a chair while she screamed in my face from esophogeal burns and neither of us slept for more than 45 minutes at a time for four months. (Yes, she was medicated, no it...
  32. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    I gave my kids a taste of a the strongest IPA I could find when they were 5. Ditto with wines and a tannin-laden cheap cabernet. If they ever ask about mixed drinks or liquor I'll give them straight gin. Problem solved.
  33. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    I get how some people could feel that way and infants have a few endearing qualities, but I just cannot feel nostalgic about months of sleep deprivation, inescapable screaming, and getting barfed on regularly.
  34. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    My sister had a baby a couple months ago and had a severe adverse reaction to medication she was taking. Ended up with some kind of MASSIVE anxiety disorder, to the point that she literally didn't sleep for nine days. We ended up taking the baby for three days just so she could finish withdrawal...
  35. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    tldw; Europe mandates table saws have active brakes that can stop blade rotation in some seconds after power off. Dado stacks allegedly can have enough mass that they would stop too slowly and potentially provide counter-spin against the brake that could unscrew the stack from the arbor while in...
  36. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Dado stacks are variously illegal or even physically impossible to mount on table saws in some places outside the US due to perceived safety hazards. As far as the biscuit joints, every single woodworker who actually runs a production shop uses them for panel alignment. They're just so fucking...
  37. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    I love Mr. Ishitani's work. No nonsense, simple, efficient, and technically perfect.
  38. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Loool, Hardy.
  39. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    http://givememmastreams.com/ufc-mma/ufc-live-stream
  40. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Wow, Ryan Hall is such a dumbass. I say this as a BJJ guy who has known about Ryan since he was a blue belt.