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Dana is kind of a dick about this issue by weighing in during a press conference but he's not wrong. As guys hit the wrong side of 35 there's just no such thing as fully recovering from the kind of damage a fighter takes in a bad loss. I felt the difference in my own body in BJJ before I...

Son is 8. He's obviously been out of diapers for like six years, but it's still literally hit and miss if he can pee in the toilet. About once a week I go in and have a "What? HOW??" moment. On the plus side, he's old enough that I can hand him some bleach spray and have him clean the bathroom.

I feel like I need to lend you guys my dad. He'd lock the kids in a room with a crate of broccoli and check back in every few days until it was gone. (Noodle, you're in a tough spot. Not judging.)

Given the rate at which Conor appears to spend money I'm not sure there's any such thing.

The shoulders didn't end the fight but they broke Cowboy's nose. Hardly nothing. In fairness, it may well have been partial at the end of the first round - then she fought 10 more minutes on it.

Now that you mention it, my wife does this...

That's entirely plausible. In the years I've withdrawn from my HSA I've had bills through my insurance which exceeded my HSA contribution limit.

No, I used my general checking account or credit cards and reimbursed myself. I wanted the credit card rewards, prefer to centralize my financial activity to facilitate easy record-keeping and reconciliation, and I can't be bothered to carry around another card I barely use.

Sadly, I've had reason to have the test done to me several times. An experienced doc can do it in a couple seconds like that.

He did a standard manual knee exam. Those are actually more reliable than MRIs for ACL injuries. Of course, he still had no business doing it as far as I can tell and definitely shouldn't have announced the results the way he did.

I've spent many thousands out of my HSA (eight orthopedic surgeries). I've never used the debit card once and self-reimburse on an annual basis. I just bundle everything and send myself a check for "2019 medical expenses". I've never once been asked for verification of any kind. This is across...

Yes. The conceit of a consequentially-located POV/plot anchor is necessary because otherwise you don't get an engaging story. Think of it as survivorship bias among all possible ways the reader can experience the events. Who wants to read from the perspective of some schlub working in a fungus...

Conor broke Cowboy's nose in the first five seconds with a shoulder-butt from the clinch, then head kicked him on the break and finished with punches. Cowboy didn't choke as much as Conor just fucked him up, hard.

I'm pretty sure you should have your kid checked for satanic possession.

I've read Harris' book and listened to that VBW episode. I think the caveats and objections raised in the VBW discussion cover my problems with the statements you're making. Harris herself specifically only makes the claim that variations within the space of normal well-intentioned parents doing...

Kids behave according to the boundaries and social structures in which they live. This includes peers and family. To the extent that they spend more time with peers, it shouldn't be surprising that a great deal of modeling comes from that source. However, to take that and use it to assert that...

The purse is 5M/2M. Whatever that number is includes inflated PPV number and I'm sure some fabricated boost to his whiskey sales.

I'm not a doctor, but 95-120 seems high outside of exercise. I've always run on the low side, but I'm typically 60-70 walking around and when I was in competition shape for ju jitsu 40-45 at true rest.

I was riding from Porter Square in to Kendall. It was a clusterfuck. I'd nearly get killed by a cyclist from behind when I had the gall to stop at a stop sign with active cross traffic.

I get the frustration, but given the track record that's a side issue to the actual cleanliness of the house. Dramatic habit change is unlikely. "Wife cleans and no maid" doesn't seem to be a realistic outcome. You can either be frustrated that your wife doesn't clean and live in a disaster...

Dude, honestly, you have a straight up trash problem. $120 to get that dealt with in any fashion is a huge win. If the lady does maintenance for 2/3 or less the cost of the initial clean and it forces your family to neaten up beforehand, consider yourself victorious.

As a guy who commuted on a bike for years, fuck bikers. I suffered more scares at the hands of other cyclists than drivers. You're legally a vehicle; act accordingly.

The commonly-cited reason to be concerned about divorce rate is that children of divorce have worse outcomes than children of lasting marriages. However, for me that point needs some refinement to to be compelling, since I've never seen an outcome comparison between children of divorce vs...

Because not enough time had passed by whenever that was published to get an extended history on couples who married in the 00's.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/marriage-and-divorce-patterns-by-gender-race-and-educational-attainment.htm Educated cohorts divorce far less, unsurprisingly. You'll have to pull the raw data and do your own math to get comparisons by both ethnicity and education...

Brief googling says in the US ~45% of first marriages end in divorce, rising to 60% for second and 73% for third marriages. I don't think those figures have a lot of meaningful information for someone in Omi's shoes since divorce isn't a random event.

You're already repeating the important parts of the experience. If you're happy, you're happy. You might as well benefit from better/cheaper insurance. If she's not emotionally invested in labeling the relationship then sign the papers at the courthouse, don't have a wedding, don't get a ring...

Makes sense given that relationship between rents and purchase price. By contrast, where I am I can rent for $3,500/mo a house that would sell for $1.5-2M or more, requiring an all-in monthy payment of $7-9k+, a $400k down payment, plus maintenance. I'm paying less than the interest portion of...

What is the role of real estate agents in France? In the US the agents will generally take a fee of 3-6% of the value of the property at sale. Can be unreliable to expect to make back the transaction costs in less than 7-10 years here.

It's more that the whole debate is badly framed by a cultural bias towards ownership. Financially, doesn't matter if you rent or buy as long as you're saving a responsible fraction of your income and getting the best returns you can.

Right, like any other asset. There's nothing unique about home equity. It's just a question of growing your assets enough to retire at your targeted lifestyle.

IMO it just boils down to a question of total wealth. I end up with more wealth by renting at my current standard of living at my current geography than I would buying. Whether that wealth is in real estate or other investments doesn't matter since the exchange between the two is trivial. For...

I'd say these situations are quite a bit more common than popular wisdom admits. Where I am in LA, for instance, the price of renting is 2/3 that of owning the same property. While it's true that if we were to buy a house with payments at our rental price point we would be financially ahead, we...

It may vary by jurisdiction, but wherever I've lived if it's vertically above your property, it's yours. (Branches, fences, etc. In the other direction, tree roots can get complicated because the effect isn't confined to your property.) Clearly, the neighborly thing to do is to talk to them...

Is there such a thing as a good pair of bluetooth noise-isolating in-ear headphones at a reasonable price? When I was in college I used Etymotic ER-4's which I loved. The -30 db reduction from the silicone plugs was enough to listen to classic music on the subway and the sound quality was...

This is exactly the point. If it weren't for the guilt of strangers seeing our pigsty, we'd never clean. Worth weight in gold.

Go third-world rich person's compound style. Fifteen foot cement wall at the utility easement with a solid gate and broken glass on the top.

I'm a naturally cluttered person and so is my wife. I also inherited an internally inconsistent guilt complex about cleanliness from my mother. My solution is to do my best to put anything I haven't used in six months into the garage or attic. Then, every couple of years when those areas fill...

Condolences. We are similarly deranged. I lost my mom 15 years ago and still work out "Am I <multiple> of Mom's age at <event>?" on a regular basis. It's a funny way to stay connected to the memories. I caught myself the other day using this exercise to teach my son fractions. Death sucks...

Clippers. Fire.