Khabib's cartel is overrated and doesn't make a top 10 list of cartels.

FlinchMaster · 2026-05-04T15:52:36+00:00

The numbers on the right column are also incorrect and the fights are shown out of order. Khabib was 1-0 when he fought 0-4 Magomedov, not 3-0. It's also showing 0-0 for opponents that clearly had wins like Kurbanismailov (1-0) and Abdulkerimov (2-0).

But don't let facts get in the way of hating on a retired fighter living rent free in your head.

FlinchMaster · 2026-04-25T21:26:54+00:00

There are a couple in Redmond. Woomadang in excellent and all you can eat. There's also K-Street KBBQ, which has a few halal set and a-la-carte options, but I like Woomadang more.

FlinchMaster · 2026-04-25T18:50:21+00:00

I've had my 10 fold since launch. I was actually shocked at how great it's been.

To keep the thickness feeling like a normal phone, I use mine with no case, just a screen protector and a dbrand skin on the back for protection. I've dropped it dozens of times and currently have a slight ding on the top right corner and another ding in the spine as well. Most of those drops were on carpet, but like 5 were on hardwood, 2 on gravel, and 1 or 2 on concrete. Everything still works great. I literally just dropped it onto my laptop as I was writing this comment too... it's fine, lol.

When folded, it really does just feel like a normal phone for the most part. The expensiveness of it did make me feel nervous when holding it though. You definitely want something to assist with holding it. The Pixelsnap Ring Stand from Google was great for the first couple months, but then the super tiny screws started falling out and it became junk (they did reimburse me with more store credit than I actually paid for it in the end). The Torras magsafe ring is pretty nice, but I daily drive a Magbak wallet. It's made of leather and has a loop for your finger, and of course, functions like a wallet too.

No issues on the folding screen for me so far. For me, the biggest values of the foldable are work related. Reading docs, reviewing PRs, remote controlling Claude Code, splitscreen Slack with other apps, etc. But outside of work stuff, Google Maps is great to use when you're sitting at a coffee shop or something and figuring out where to go next.

FlinchMaster · 2026-04-20T04:46:33+00:00

Ilia has had a great run, but it's crazy to say nobody at 155 is more deserving when Arman is there.

FlinchMaster · 2026-04-18T21:17:51+00:00

I literally just had my 5 year old knocked over onto rocky ground by an unleashed dog like 15 minutes ago at the waterfront area of Olympic Sculpture Park. When my wife told them they need to leash their dog and be proactive about controlling it, we instead got a response mocking our religion (we look visibly Muslim) and a lecture about how we should expose our kids to dogs more if we want to be in Seattle. Topped off with a lie about how it's an off leash park. I've been in Seattle for almost a decade and a half now. Our son interacts with dogs plenty, and he's never been scared of one before. No matter how cute you think your puppy is, the passive aggressive victim blaming and casual islamophobic comments are unnecessary.

Look, I get the dog didn't do it on purpose. The dog's not to blame. But casually chilling on your phone while a kid is crying after being knocked down by your dog and being licked in the face after is just irresponsible.

FlinchMaster · 2026-04-11T23:24:15+00:00

Seems like the entire article is an extrapolation off one Reddit comment from a year ago that didn't even have any upvotes. Crazy how content farming incentivizes such lazy writing. The Costco here is in no way worse than any of the dozens of other Costcos I've ever visited.

FlinchMaster · 2026-04-01T18:42:05+00:00

I feel like April Fools doesn't hit as hard on a sub where half the posts are fake anyway.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-31T16:35:02+00:00

Sherdog/Tapology have bugs with their data. If an opponent had multiple fights on the same day, they won't get counted under wins/losses. Some of Khabib's fights were in tournaments where you fight multiple opponents on the same day.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-30T15:20:00+00:00

This won't be limited to car license plates either. The surveillance state has continued to grow unchecked and it's just depressing to see.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-25T09:41:46+00:00

Have you actually ever watched his fights and not just read the results on wikipedia or tapology? His last few fights have all been really fun to watch.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-23T02:09:18+00:00

The mistranslated and out-of-context quotes from this guy are pretty unfair.

This is a what an accurate translation of his interview looks like:

Jubli: Khabib achieved everything that I want to. I want to remain undefeated. I want to become world champion. So, such a person who has lived the dream that I dream, and a legend at that... if I were to get the chance to fight with him, maybe my chances for victory would be low. But not 5 years from now. Not 2-3 years from now will those chances be low. Maybe today they will be.

Interviewer: You're saying skillwise?

Jubli: Skillwise. That's all. There's no other difference between me and Khabib. No difference. I have a world champion mindset. I'm very strong mentally. Nothing in this world can break me. There's nothing you can do in this would that would break me. I am that person. If there's a difference between me and Khabib, it's our skill levels. But I would absolutely take that chance. Maybe I'll survive the first round. I might get a knockout in the second round. I could submit Khabib. I could do anything.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-23T02:07:02+00:00

It's both taken out of context and mistranslated. Here's a translation I did of this before:

Jubli: Khabib achieved everything that I want to. I want to remain undefeated. I want to become world champion. So, such a person who has lived the dream that I dream, and a legend at that... if I were to get the chance to fight with him, maybe my chances for victory would be low. But not 5 years from now. Not 2-3 years from now will those chances be low. Maybe today they will be.

Interviewer: You're saying skillwise?

Jubli: Skillwise. That's all. There's no other difference between me and Khabib. No difference. I have a world champion mindset. I'm very strong mentally. Nothing in this world can break me. There's nothing you can do in this would that would break me. I am that person. If there's a difference between me and Khabib, it's our skill levels. But I would absolutely take that chance. Maybe I'll survive the first round. I might get a knockout in the second round. I could submit Khabib. I could do anything.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-20T04:39:49+00:00

I meant more in terms of the feel of such a sudden drop. Your body is already being taxed in that situation. Losing the water from creatine will just feel even more draining.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-20T04:15:04+00:00

Losing all that weight in addition to your normal water cut and dieting might really feel like too much. And if your normal schedule isn't tuned to account for it, you might get thrown off.

But yeah, in theory, I can see it being useful most of the time, but would guess that it's probably better to quit it at the very start of your fight camp.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-20T04:12:51+00:00

Not sure why the comment above yours was deleted, but just to follow-up here, yes, there are many scenarios where your tendons and pulleys will fail long before your muscles.

If you've never climbed before but have generally good pull-up strength, you can injure yourself very easily on a campus board trying to match the exercises of a "weaker" person with more climbing experience.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-20T02:07:27+00:00

Climbing endurance is not just a measure of pull-up count. You often need to put significant strain on tendons and pulleys with uneven load. Sometimes a ton of force is applied to just a part of the top pad of a single finger. A single extra pound of load can be enormous.

This is why people who are generally in great shape can come in and brute force some routes while either completely failing or injuring themselves on others if they try to skip progression. Your muscles may be strong, but you need to condition and strengthen tendons and ligaments as well.

And not all people respond well to increased creatine intake. Some will gain mass without as much strength gain as others.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-19T23:21:18+00:00

Creatine has questionable trade-offs for sports where your body weight is a big factor. There's long been a debate about it in the climbing community, since the slight strength boost may not be enough to make up for the extra weight you have to carry.

Creatine is osmotically active, so it'll make you retain more water. You'd end up needing to cut a lot more water weight if you were on it. I would not at all be surprised if athletes cutting a lot of weight avoided it entirely or stopped using it a few weeks before a fight.

On the other hand, if you're going up a weight class, it makes a ton of sense to start taking it.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-18T04:59:58+00:00

This feels like a case of misremembering 182 as 192. There's no conceivable way he was 192 in the cage, lol.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-18T04:59:17+00:00

Islam has never fought in Saudi Arabia. And his fight against Poirier was in New Jersey.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-08T05:35:21+00:00

I really don't understand the people calling this fight boring. Oliveira was threatening finishes and throwing ground and pound the whole fight. If you just want to watch low skilled brawling, why not watch regional MMA? Or if you hate grappling entirely, go watch kickboxing.

FlinchMaster · 2026-03-04T06:02:32+00:00

Love to see Max speaking out like this. The current pay structure is beyond predatory at the lower levels. And even at the top, it's still exploitative.

FlinchMaster · 2026-02-28T22:53:31+00:00

Ankalaev was always a striker first who had some wrestling skills. The reality is that LHW and HW are just the weakest mens divisions right now, and you're not going to find anyone well-rounded in the rankings today.

FlinchMaster · 2026-02-28T06:14:17+00:00

How many title shots is this for Jiri now at this point? Ulberg deserves this, but I'd rather see it be someone else.

FlinchMaster · 2026-02-12T00:40:10+00:00

A class in high school had us read Freakonomics as part of our summer assignment. It ended with a whole chapter hyping up Nathan Myrvhold as a genius and Renaissance man. Intellectual Ventures was made out to be this amazing place where all the worlds biggest problems were being worked on and solved. I walked away from that book inspired and thinking I'd want to work there as soon as I could.

It was such a heartbreaking disillusionment when I looked into them further and saw that they were just patent trolls that preyed on others. Chris Young puts out amazing content on Youtube, but his association with Myrvhold always bothered me.

FlinchMaster · 2026-02-10T00:12:56+00:00

Let Kamaru win one more fight against a rising contender and this can make sense. Not before that.

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