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I dunno. I'm not that cynical. I think it's entirely possible that Conor has realized he can get/stay comfortably rich while having fun with his life and without battering his body. His last few bouts have pretty clearly been for the $$ and not for the love of fighting. Of course I still give...

Take nothing for granted. I had a friend try to buy a new construction that looked fine on the outside, but it turns out the owners were foreign and hired some fly-by-night unlicensed contractor who didn't even know there was such a thing as building codes, never mind following them. Friend...

The DA is exclusively responsible for criminal charges and totally uninvolved in a civil case. If they think there is sufficient evidence/motivation for criminal prosecution, the antipathy of the victim is irrelevant. Conor has already been charged with felony strong-armed robbery and criminal...

"It is against the law to either pay someone to drop charges or change their testimony, or to accept money to do so." What happens if I take money in exchange for dropping criminal charges against someone? Depending on the jurisdiction, this is classified as witness tampering. (And/or bribery...

I was in for a bit. Game seems like it has potential from my brief session. Control mapping is buggy as fuck. It doesn't appear to unmap if you reassign a command. My gamepad is completely useless. I can't move, and using the thumbstick does nothing but flutter all the map/inventory screens...

I set up the steam controller pad as a modified trackball input and use it instead of the stick. Once you get used to that it's more precise and less work for your thumbs. Obviously that's a personal preference thing and YMMV.

The main problem is they partially violate people's instinctive idea of how controllers should work, and it's not always obvious what the best configuration is for your use case. There are so many options it's a fair amount of work to configure one properly. Once you "get it", however, they're...

Jesus fuck, I nearly had a seizure just watching the video. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? I really hope that the background stays static, at which point it might be tolerable. If the whole screen moves, as in a few of those clips, it's a big nope from me.

Some theory about how traps don't get that big on their own. I never bought it, since I have big traps and I don't even lift. It's got much more to do with your shoulder posture and neck tension. Mine suck and I end up doing isometric shrugs 24/7 -> traps.

Taxable value has fuck all to do with sale price. It's just another lever to pull when they decide they want to extract more property tax. A factor of 5 difference may be high, but I've seen a factor of 2-3 being typical, depending on your county. When I sold my home it was assessed by the...

Depends on your local monopoly situation. I get 150/10 fiber service from an independent provider for $45/mo, and "Unlimited"/25 for I think $60/mo. When I was in Atlanta all I had was the "Fuck you, peon" special from Comcast, at $75/mo for 50/5.

Run your rent/buy options through this and compare to the cost of private tuition. Is It Better to Rent or Buy? Where I'm at in LA in an A++ school district the houses are $1.5-3.5M and rent is $3500. That's FAR less than the interest on an equivalent mortgage unless you were putting $1M+...

I've got fiber and my fucking ISP has enough trouble with their network that I regularly get dropped Skype calls. The prospect of 60fps 4k streaming with good latency is laughable. I played some of AC: Odyssey in the Project Stream beta and it was... ok. Colors were washed out, fuzzy at 1440p...

We're renting homes in a much nicer area than we would/could otherwise afford to live. Paying an extra 30-50% in rent for 12-15 years is utterly trivial compared to the cost of sending two kids to private school. (That and the cost of rental is <60% the cost of ownership here so we get to live...

I cut the cord 10 or 12 years ago. I've saved $8-10k in cable bills and get back 10+ hours a week that I might otherwise spend watching bullshit. Best decision I've made in a long time. Just the timeshift and a la carte benefits of streaming solutions are worth their weight in gold. I don't even...

In my experience, this kind of thing doesn't work very well, especially if you tend to be on the patio in the evenings. The low angle of the sun means it's still shining in your eyes despite the roof. I've had much better results buying a nice 10-12 foot canvas, collapsible, angle-adjustable...

I live in a part of LA with a high proportion of ethnic Chinese. It's a relatively affluent area, but I still see shit like parents at the community pool having their kids pee on the sidewalk behind a trash can rather than go to the public restroom 20 feet away. Bigtime cultural lack of respect...

If you wanted a ceramic adventure you could try to take the old tiles under where your new pantry will be and move them.

You're not kidding: "Police spoke to an unidentified female who stated Tony Ferguson had “not slept for three days and was tearing apart the home” and “broke apart the fire place and believed someone placed a (computer) chip in his leg.” An unidentified male who’d called the police said the...

No, the 1098 is just about the interest you paid. Property tax info is usually available on your county assessor's website.

But the guy was holding the phone at the time, so it's more complicated than just the property damage. Per CNN: "McGregor was arrested on charges of felony strong-armed robbery and criminal mischief. " https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/11/us/conor-mcgregor-arrested/index.html

I'm not totally up to date on hardware. Is it fair to say that the new 1660 Ti is a pretty decent 1440p card for the price point? Acceptable framerates (~60+) at high/ultra on most games? I'm currently running at GTX 970 and it just can't hang with modern games at that resolution.

This is the problem with the way "most" people set it up. I've got some family money from my grandfather, but the there are strict stipulations that it can only be used for qualified kinds of education. It paid for college and grad school but nothing else, and won't be touched again until my...

If you can't cold turkey it, try snipping through the material right on the end so that they can't get suction in their mouth. Then you can progressively remove more material until there's nothing left and they get bored of it. Worked wonders for my daughter.

I'm just coming off 14 months reading the entire Harry Potter series to my 6/7 year old. We recently went through the Chronicles of Prydain, which I thought was dry and wordy in a Tolkein kind of way but he seemed to enjoy. Currently doing a survey of Roald Dahl (The Witches, The BFG), which he...

That's witness tampering, and illegal. The victim can even be prosecuted for taking money to change their story after reporting. Whether or not charges are filed is up to the DA and not the victim. In this case, it's going to depend on how big an ass McGregor was being and how much he annoyed...

Doubtful. Word is he spends his leisure time hanging out with gangsters and doing all the coke they can ship to Ireland, and there was some unconfirmed noise about his being investigated for assault and rape. Downward spiral, ho!

A ringing endorsement for the program.

Current rules are current rules, I know, but I think the best solution to the whole steroid problem is to put everyone on them under doctor supervision. The athletes would heal faster and the matches would be better. Next arena for cheating - hydraulic joint replacements.

"If you don’t seek immediate court relief after a unilateral and unapproved move like this, there may be consequences. If, when the move occurred, divorce proceedings were not already pending, then it may take months before the court makes any custody decisions. In this time, the children’s...

Well, would you like to see your kids again?

Jesus christ. OSHA can be a pain in the ass, but that kind of shit is why they exist. (And holy fuck, video comments are ruthless.)

You just have to be more stubborn. I had a formative battle of wills with my dad when I was a kid. I didn't want to eat my broccoli at dinner, and he laid down the law and said I wasn't going to eat anything else until I finished my vegetables. I declared myself full and went to bed. I thought...

Conor is entertaining even when he loses. Jones is building his ability to be weird and boring while dominating everyone. All his excitement is in the lab.

Hunger is a great motivator. No snacks <2 hours before dinner and veggies get put on the plate before starches. He can still be constipated and taking regular dumps. You can develop unpassable wads in the intestines where normal stuff passes around it. Does he have any abdominal discomfort?

He's constipated. Have him drink more water. Kids at that age can self-dehydrate because during potty training they get self-conscious about peeing. Having stuffed-up intestines can lead to frequent urination and UTIs (happened to my daughter). Failing that, have him eat more fiber, yadda yadda.

This has been my experience with the series in general. The production values are high and I really want to like it, but the actual game mechanics are just... flat.

I'm a brown belt in BJJ and have been grappling for 10 years. I've been choked out and have choked people out. I think this is a dead-on take on what happened. tldw; Robbie was obviously in twilight when his arm dropped and recovered nearly instantly when the choke released. Edit: Robbie. I...

He already had his hands on Askren at that point. You also have to take into context the fact that just before this Robbie's arm had dropped 3 feet like a wet noodle, in a way which conscious people's arms do not. This is just one of those things that happens when you have humans making...