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Perhaps it's just after the fact rationalization, but I've got some good mileage out of the Keirsey-Bates/Meyers-Briggs personality archetyping. The successful couples in my family and friend circles share dominant cognitive modes (intuitive/concrete thinking/emotion) and complement each other...

Can't speak to Noodle's wife, but that sure seems to be mine's.

I've had the soul of a crotchety arthritic 60 year old since I was about 8. Now that I'm 2/3 there chronologically and not putting up with other people's shit is socially acceptable, I'm the happiest I've ever beeen.

That's a way of framing it I've never quite thought of before. Been with my wife 15 years and am happy, but something to think about going into the new year. Thanks.

Only in a very broad sense. Time progresses (slightly) differently everywhere based on local spacetime curvature. There isn't a time you can point to in Betelguese's chronology that precisely lines up with 650 years ago in ours. Read the wiki link.

Technically, "yet" needs quotes as well. "Now" is a concept relative to your own point as an observer in spacetime. Distance at lightspeed is certainly a useful approximation, but the deeper you dig the weirder time gets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity

From the looks of staining and beams that leaking has been going on for a long time. Do you have access to the attic space to see where else the water may have collected? If there's even a slight slope on the sheathing or beams the water can easily run 10-15+ feet from the incursion point. You...

We had an early miscarriage trying for our second kid and did some digging into the statistics. The more I learned about pregnancy the more baffling it is that it EVER works properly.

This happened to my daughter. Similar concerns about amniotic fluid since she was also an emergency C-section (preeclampsia). Minor scare, but it went away in a couple days and she was fine.

I think that's part of it. The new blood gets to cherry-pick the best training methods and athletic science without suffering the same physical and mental wear and tear as the older athletes. Also MMA is a larger sport now than 10 years ago and the selection bias is stronger for the new...

Credit for being tough, but fighting with a broken jaw might not be the smartest move for Colby...

Really impressed by Volkanovski.

Please tell me you're not seriously arguing that carrying gasoline in plastic grocery bags into a car which you will shortly drive isn't a safety risk. Of course stations don't blow up with every spill, but doing dumb shit like that is a great way to test the odds.

Quick, let's film this in vertical mode instead of intervening before she blows up the whole gas station!

I wouldn't say "ruined", but I do feel like modern games pay some cost for the lack of editing and coherency that comes from being able to revise continually after release. PoE is a fun game but it's pretty clearly a stack of ideas developed over years, some of which don't particularly relate to...

I live in LA. I can probably see more people right now than the combine city size of everyone else who has posted so far.

Right, this kid was walking through multiple rooms, taking corners, and picking things up from the floor without falling or using his hands. I saw it myself repeatedly. By contrast, my kids were more like 14-15 months. They seem to have turned out fine and my friend's kid doesn't now appear to...

Friend's kid was legit walking by that age. It's mostly dependent on how much they're held vs left on the floor to explore. As for reading and talking by 6 months... yeah. I don't think they have the motor/ocular control for that yet. QFT.

As it says in the post, "where it will disintegrate into the upper atmosphere". They threw the thing behind the orbit so it will decay faster. Debris in higher orbits is harder because there's less drag.

Sure, wasn't a criticism of you. "Oh, just a girl getting hauled into a car against her will? Mind your own business, honey." Fuck those people.

The fact that this statement exists is why we can't have nice things.

IMO all pro sports should stop pretending to be clean and then we can have the all-steroid, prosthetic cybernetic superman league with some really badass shit going down. Football with players that have an 8-foot vertical? Yes, please.

I might pay to see Tito beaten into a living death.

I've enjoyed mine quite a bit. It takes some work to get the right configuration but for me it's a fairly good equivalent to mouse/keyboard for casual shooters. Definitely better than dual analog sticks.

Some of the high-end textured composites feel very much like hardwood and are more resistant to damage. Friend has it in his house, including kitchen, and it's quite nice. If tile is more your thing my dad put in printed porcelain tile, which is also pleasant and nearly indestructible unless you...

Rampage's expression is exactly how I feel about this fight.

I don't think I've played this since vanilla release. Is it worth picking up the DLC?

IMO the only way to go is to buy small enough that whatever you can afford is solid and in good repair. I've seen a number of friends get burned by "luxury" homes with paper construction or getting in over their heads on properties that "just require some touch-ups" and turn out to have large...

Retire early in a more modest house. Or by this one and don't. We can't answer that for you. More directly to your question, fuck properties that require a lot of maintenance. Unless you can just throw money at maintenance or you can do it yourself and enjoy the work it will be a source of...

Apparently so. I guess that shows what I know. https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Stun

For slower attacks to be meaningful you'd want to tune damage and the pace of combat so you weren't one-shotting everything (not this game, obviously). In some other context I wouldn't mind seeing a mechanic where your CC effect chance scales with the size of the hit you deliver.

Just be aware that asbestos requires N/R/P-100 filtering and not N-95. The particles are super-fine. The carcinogenic mechanism is literally the atoms-thick edges of asbestos fibers physically puncturing your lung cells and slicing the the DNA strands. I did some work with a company with legal...

If the ceiling was installed in the mid-80's or earlier, yeah. While the health risks are probably low for a single job like this, having spent some time around people with mesothelioma I don't think it would be worth it, especially keeping in mind that I'd be creating some level of interior...

Hit every seam up there with wet patch roof cement (not silicone - it doesn't adhere for shit on dirty or wet surfaces) and get a pro up there ASAP and redo the whole area. No part of that is right. No flashing, seams facing up slope... ugh. Even if the rest of it isn't leaking now it will soon...

Interesting factoid about Starship I picked up from my cousin on the SpaceX factory tour. Most Starship manufacturing will have to be done near the launch site and not in Hawthorne because the diameter of the Starship design is too large to fit under the minimum overpass height on the US...

I'm sure the more we learn the more we'll realize that gravity is critical to long-term human health. (Which shouldn't be particularly surprising.) How much is needed to address health risks is obviously TBD, but long-term habitats will pretty clearly need spin or some other artificial G...

Fuck me. No more number time.

Seconds, hours, what's the difference? Touche. This is why you don't crunch numbers live. Board needs "embarrassed correction" reaction. I still get 60 G's though. Using m and s throughout: (6195^2 - 278^2) / (2 * (0.5 * 2* pi * 10,000:emoji_nose: ~= 610 m/s^2 They still have to be accelerated along the...

[Edit: I suck at numbers. Thanks for correction, Ukerric.]

Yeah. My experience was Atlanta in 2013/14. I think I was on the market for 16 months.