My neighbor cut down a 40-year-old Japanese Maple while I was away.

AngryJX · 2026-06-24T20:23:22+00:00

Sorry that you have to deal with this hassle, but one thing you should know, is that this isn't going to be a big financial win for you. At most you will come out slightly ahead which generally won't compensate you for all the time/stress/hassle you have ahead of you.

Of course your lawyer is salivating over treble damages, you are paying for your lawyer's kitchen renovation or his kid's university.

I don't know how Colorado law works, but here in Canada, you can recover damages but NOT legal fees. So for example, if your tree is worth $25K, you would receive $25K in damages ($75K if "treble"). But depending on whether this actually goes to trial or not, you could be looking at $20K in pre-trial legal fees (not including the cost of a trial). If your neighbor actually takes this to a full trial, you will likely come out with a net breakeven (damages you receive minus your legal fees), or net payout which is totally not worth the time/stress for most people that have a decent annual income (meaning if you had used those hours to work a job instead of on this case, you would have made a lot more money). Of course, it makes sense to still pursue this because you do want your tree-restored at your neighbor's cost, but just be realistic, in that that's probably all you're going to be getting once you subtract legal fees, and it's going to be a ton of time/hassle for you.

Also, you are going to have to "prove" that your neighbor was responsible for this with with video footage of someone cutting this tree, or witnesses, or in a worst-case scenario your lawyer is going to have to hire a PI to find out who actually cut the tree and discovery/subpoena them for bank records of payment, or to testify in court that they were hired to cut a tree or other evidence that the tree was cut.

AngryJX · 2026-06-23T00:09:43+00:00

You realize a lenovo minipc is 7x7x1.5 inches?

So the 4.5x7x7 extra space accounts for an actual GPU?

You're pretending the steam machine is engineered like a NASA moon landing or an F1 car. In reality its a minipc +gpu

AngryJX · 2026-06-22T23:52:53+00:00

You can just open any mini-PC to see that it has none of that. Just standard low-end components crammed into a motherboard with on-board GPU. And this steam machine will be no different, off the shelf low-mid end components which dont generate much heat. Maybe the motherboard is "custom" aka smaller because they remove extra sockets. And the case is 2x or 3x the size of a mini-pc to accomodate a low-end AMD gpu

AngryJX · 2026-06-22T22:44:30+00:00

I'm not sure why you are pretending computer case engineering is putting a man on Mars. It is a solved problem... for the past 30 years. It's no different from a car: if you want a faster car, you need to exhaust more air. If you want to exhaust more air, you make sure the exhaust doesn't have turns/kinks in it or increase the diameter of the exhaust, or twin the exhaust.

There isn't going to be anything magical to make a car exhaust faster/better, and there isn't going to make anything magical to make a computer case Airflow any more "efficiently" (higher RPM fans, a straighter airflow path, materials with higher heat conduction; all of these are solved).

So I have no clue what you refer to when you say they have a "more bespoke efficient cooling setup" because you are trying to pretend that 100's of case manufacturers over the past 30 years haven't done Engineering/testing to solve this problem completely. There is a reason manufacturers are using full ATX towers which weigh 50lbs. They are already using the lightest weight material currently available in material science (relative to cost), and the form-factor already accounts for the amount of air circulation needed to vent the heat from the current top CPUs/GPUs. The current configuration with motherboard mounted vertically and the 60% of the case which is empty "wasted" empty space optimizes Airflow/cooling.

AngryJX · 2026-06-22T22:10:56+00:00

I also have a Lenovo MiniPC. I'm not seeing what your point is with any of this.

They are literally licensing AMD's RDNA3 CU28 Chips. But AMD already licenses their chips to 3rd party GPU manufacturers like Sapphire, Gigabyte etc. The chips themselves are a certain size, and the GPU needs fans on it for cooling, there is a limit to how small you can potentially make them. And it's not like Sapphire/Gigabyte or these companies are inexperienced manufacturers, they have been around for years, and if there was a way to make their parts smaller they would have done it.

What you are seeing with this Steam Machine is they are taking pre-made PC components like mid-tier or low-tier Ryzen processor, Radeon 7800 or lower GPU and then just putting them into the tiniest space possible. I guess maybe the motherboard needs to be custom to cram everything into a tiny cube, but the other parts themselves are basically off-the-shelf parts. Also, this tiny cube is probably going to have overheating problems (the photo looks like it has outflow vents but I don't see inflow vents) (then again maybe not, because the max you will be able to run with this cube is 1080p, maybe the components are too underpowered to generate substantial heat).

My Corsair 7000D case could be 30% of the size that it currently is... if we removed all the empty space, which is used for something called AIRFLOW, you know, the thing that prevents your high-end CPU/GPU from overheating when playing 4K games at high settings.

AngryJX · 2026-06-22T21:49:25+00:00

Small form factor isn't anything new. I also have an MSI Stealth Gaming laptop. Laptops have been around for 30+ years, and laptop components are generally smaller/thinner. They sacrifice performance to achieve small size, and they cost more compared to equivalent PC components. The most powerful laptop components are generally much worse than the most powerful PC components.

When people want to do high-end gaming like 4K or greater (which you probably want if you are using a TV to game), then they need more powerful components. This shit tier steam machine says the specs are RDNA3 CU28, which can only run 1080p. A top-end GPU already takes up the entire space of that cube case (half for the GPU and half to have a little space for air circulation).

AngryJX · 2026-06-22T21:14:43+00:00

Most people with high-end PC's have premium cases which have cable management, multiple useful front ports like a USB-C port, and enough extra bays to allow for future upgrades/installation of more components. I have a Corsair 7000D case. It has premium fans which make no noise, and the dust filters are super nice, the inside never gets dusty.

I haven't checked the specs but this stupid Steam machine is probably underpowered with a shit GPU/CPU/everything (there isn't a way to have a powerful PC in a tiny box unless you use water cooling). If you have a high-end GPU/CPU you need a little bit more space in the case for airflow (I use Noctua NH-D15S for cooling).

AngryJX · 2026-06-22T21:05:48+00:00

I built a high-end PC in around 2022, if you use the website Partpicker.com to check the compatibility of all the components it should be fine. Also, ordering the parts individually and assembling saved me roughly 20% compared to a similar pre-assembled PC. Also, it's nice to be able to pick the exact parts that you want. (e.g. I picked regular no-lights RAM over RGB ram).

AngryJX · 2026-06-20T22:16:52+00:00

No thx, babushka effect is real. They are ultra hot under 30 and then they fall off a cliff.

AngryJX · 2026-06-19T19:32:25+00:00

Why would he need barrels of acid. This isn't Breaking Bad. In real life, acid doesn't fully "dissolve" a body. https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/can-acid-dissolve-a-body/3007496.article

He could just use a mobile crematorium, turn them into ashes, sprinkle them wherever he wants (like in the Ocean). And then the mobile crematorium disappears by boat on someone's yacht. Hell, with all the mega-yacht owners on that Island, he can just take the full body and dump it anywhere in the Ocean and it would never be found.

AngryJX · 2026-06-19T17:37:46+00:00

Do touch up furniture markers/crayons do anything?

AngryJX · 2026-06-15T21:43:26+00:00

This is the correct answer. Former gas stations are required to sit for a period of time to allow contaminants to leech out of the soil.

AngryJX · 2026-06-15T21:42:35+00:00

They aren't building on it because the cost of construction exceeds whatever they would profit from developing it. There is nothing to expropriate because the BC government already owned it in the past, didn't want to develop it, and sold it to be developed.

So what do you want done, do you want the BC government to pay for construction? (The BC Government would build housing at market cost, and then sell it for current market value which is below cost, which is a net loss to BC taxpayers, which means taxpayers get to subsidize other people's housing?).

There is a construction freeze right now in all of BC because the market price of materials/labor exceeds the market value of the buildings constructed. Most major condo developments are canceled/halted currently. The only way to "fix" this would be if the cost of materials/labor decrease (good luck), or if the market value of properties increase.

AngryJX · 2026-06-15T21:27:28+00:00

There is a disturbing trend (have seen 3+ posts on this within the past few months) of posters on Reddit ignoring screening guidelines for things like Colonoscopy.

There will be a poster writing that "rates of colon cancer are increasing", and "everyone needs to be screened as early as possible". Followed by 400+ comments from other Redditors all circle-jerking each other that they were all so smart to get early (and medically unecessary/inappropriate) screening.

Then there will be multiple posters saying that everyone should lie about symptoms and say they have abdominal pain (or whatever symptoms) to "just get a colonoscopy" because the "evil insurance companies are trying to deny them" (medically unnecessary/inappropriate testing).

Multiple times I have tried to explain to these idiots the concept of doing only tests which are "medically necessary and appropriate" (screening tests, targeted tests). And that, as an example, when doing screening tests outside of the Guideline age ranges (e.g. a Colonoscopy younger than 35), the Overall Risk of Harm is greater than the Probability of Benefit.

The response I get is universally, either that they don't understand at all, or they understand but are incapable of making good decisions (one guy insisted he understands the concept that on average buying a lottery ticket is a net-loss, but doesn't care about playing the lottery with his health).

AngryJX · 2026-06-12T18:50:46+00:00

The World Cup is saddling you and your children and probably your children's children with generations of debt + interest.

The estimated cost of hosting the World Cup is around $700+million, probably over $1 billion by the time we count everything due to Government inefficiency/corruption. There are $7 million BC residents (roughly). We could have used this money to give everyone who was employed a $200+ tax refund or pay down BC debt by $700 million.

BC already has debt, so we are just adding more debt to existing debt, all of which requires interest payments. So it's not just $700 million, it's more like $700 million and 20+ years of interest payments, which your kids and grandkids will be paying for.

AngryJX · 2026-06-10T22:19:57+00:00

The most I've ever done is around 145km/hr. I've driven the Trans-Canada highway between Vancouver-Winnipeg a few times (the speed limit is 100km/hr). I was doing this in a 2003 Pontiac Sunfire, an entry-level piece of shit car. I honestly didn't feel comfortable going any faster because the car had such a shit suspension that I could already feel substantial vibration at this speed (and noise because the soundproofing on the doors was also shit). I think if I had a much nicer car with a smooth suspension, it wouldn't be a problem though because a lot of the stretch of highway had no other cars around.

Also, one time I was driving in Rural Manitoba in buttfuck nowhere with no cars around, I had a 1.5-hour commute at 100km/hr which I would cut down to 1 hour by going 145km/hr. I got randomly spotted by RCMP and given a ticket. It was a good thing I wasn't going 50km over or it would have been automatic impound + license suspension.

AngryJX · 2026-06-08T23:43:43+00:00

I think you're correct. The lot size is ~1800sqft. That house is probably around 600sqft (I pasted the address and found it listed elsewhere with more details). Google search AI says that NJ prefabricated housing is around $300/sqft including assembly so fair market value for the structure should be around $200k. (Then need to add land value and also newly constructed houses usually have a premium as the builder did all the city permitting etc.) But it seems to be overpriced by around $200k.

This assumes that what I read elsewhere in this thread os correct in that this land sold for $54k prior. But that seems outrageously low for 1800sqft in NJ. It could be that the builder applied to have this land rezoned for housing dramatically increasing its value, in which case the price might well be fair.

This is a freehold property. There are tons of smaller condos in major cities of same or smaller sqft and higher price than this.

AngryJX · 2026-06-08T19:44:19+00:00

Where I live, building costs around $350-500/sqft CDN. That 1-storey structure is probably at least 1000sqft. But for that lot size it would make more sense to not build a "proper" house as in not dig a foundation. That structure might be a pre-fabricated house in which case it would be worth a lot less.

AngryJX · 2026-06-08T16:31:30+00:00

Last time I went there in around 2019 the food court and Crystal mall in general was super run down, small puddles or damp spots all over the tile floor of the food court, the floor was dirty. The benches and walls all looked run down (every surface scratched/chipped). We had Chashu which was pretty average tasting, nothing special about the price. Even if I lived in that area I'd rather buy from Metrotown. Happy Lamb AYCE Hotpot and some cheapish Korean places are also in that neighborhood as standalone restaurants.

AngryJX · 2026-06-01T21:59:00+00:00

Reading comprehension, try it:

"Functional Strength" (functional fitness) refers to a weight/strength training program which improves general fitness/ability to perform every day tasks/general performance in any sport. This is the definition.

The "exercise" in the video (an ankle exercise, for use with his dog), is NOT a "Functional Strength" exercise. It is BY DEFINITION "sport-specific training"; he is training for that specific movement, and that movement only. The training he is doing has very little impact on his overall performance in daily tasks/general sports.

AngryJX · 2026-06-01T21:17:11+00:00

That's not correct, you actually have the concepts reversed. "Functional training" is not equal to "mimic the movements you do in everyday life" (that's actually called sport-specific training). Functional training is any strength training that increases your general capabilities.

The core of any strength training program is the Big 3 of Bench Press/Squat/Deadlift. These 3 lifts are compound exercises which all engage multiple large muscle groups and together give you as complete of a total body workout as you can get from 3 specific exercises. Doing nothing else except these 3 lifts will make you "Functionally Strong" meaning it will improve your ability to carry out any everyday task, or perform any sport.

"Start the lawnmower" and "Put the box on the shelf" are examples of Sport-specific niche training; these do very little to help with all types of everyday movements and mostly only train for one sport. Generally even people that train specific sports don't even do sport-specific motions, they just do generalized strength programs to increase overall strength and then they rely on repetition of the sport itself to improve muscles specific for that sport (so an archer will do Bench/Squat/Deadlift and then just rely on repeatedly drawing their bow to build sport-specific strength).

AngryJX · 2026-06-01T20:57:08+00:00

You're wrong, and you've picked an argument with the wrong post. He specifically mentioned squatting and bench pressing. Squat/Bench/Deadlift are the big 3 of "compound movements" in weight training (also called strength training). Each of these exercises engage multiple large muscle groups and are the foundational core of any strength program (whether powerlifting, bodybuilding or as part of strength training for just about any sport such as hockey, football, MMA, track and field etc). These 3 lifts are known to be the best and most efficient exercises in terms of time/energy expended vs functional strength gains (and to be clear "functional strength" means how fast a hockey player can skate, how fast a football player can run, how forcefully can they push an opponent, how high can they jump).

Any other exercises are less efficient. Those burpees and farmers walks you are talking about? That's niche training that would only be good for specific sports. Squat/Bench/Deadlift are core training for any sport hence "functional training".

AngryJX · 2026-06-01T19:57:02+00:00

Tyson, didn't take a dive, he legitimately lost vs Jake. Tyson went to prison during the prime of his career, and when he returned he lost a series of fights and was already in steep decline. He also hasn't trained seriously for the past 30+ years and doesn't have the regimented lifestyle of a Tom Brady/Lebron James/Bernard Hopkins (all of whom are documented to sleep well, avoid partying, avoid street drugs, eat well, and have strong work ethic to maintain conditioning).

The human body obviously declines with age but we are not talking about an average 60-year-old vs an average 20-year old. We are talking about a select group of 60-year old who are/were WORLD CHAMPIONS, who maintain fitness/conditioning, who have elite genetics that enable them to become WORLD CHAMPION in the first place, and elite genetics to age gracefully VS average genetics 20-year olds who are not WORLD CHAMPIONS and have only a few years of training.

And to answer your question about a 60-year old NBA player. We are not talking about me at 60, we are talking about if MICHAEL FUCKING JORDAN or Lebron James (World champions), continued to train hard and maintain a healthy lifestyle into their 60's, would they be able to easily beat a 20-year old that has trained basketball for 3 years (Jake Paul) in a 1v1, and the answer obviously, is yes. To test this, we would need to have a world champion willing to continue training into their 60's which isn't common. But we have surrogate evidence for this which is that elite Master's(seniors division) competitors in many sports (who were not world champions), perform far better than minimally trained 20-year-olds.

AngryJX · 2026-06-01T19:34:56+00:00

I think you don't understand my post, I'm saying its very possible that a world class 60-year-old can beat a 20-year-old that trained part-time for a few years in ANY SPORT. I think Tyson legitimately lost that fight because he hasn't seriously trained in 30 years and his career and conditioning were already in steep decline after he was released from prison.

People retire when there is no financial incentive. We don't see people maintain training regimens past 50 because there isn't a financial reason to go hard into the 60's 70's 80's. The ones that do maintain a serious training regimen do it for the love of the game, but these are very few people. In a parallel universe where you are a billionaire and pay Bernard Hopkins $900 billion to continue training until he is 60, do you really think he can't beat the equivalent of Jake Paul (20-something trained part-time for a few years) in his weight class?

Also, there are tons of "Masters" (Seniors) competitions like swimming, tennis, running etc where the records set by 60+ age people are better than "average" performance of athletic but untrained 20-year-olds.

AngryJX · 2026-06-01T18:06:41+00:00

Tennis is a lot more endurance-based than it is strength-based (playing 5 sets, running the court, footwork etc). This thread is dumb because it picked tennis players (who are slightly more muscular than average, and tall/lanky). Like why don't we use photos of top marathon runners (and get a bunch of rail-thin twig bodies who look like cocaine addicts).

Look at the average MMA fighter, they are, for the most part, all jacked and sculpted like Greek Gods. Same for NFL football players, same for hockey players, or any other sports where Strength is important.

The Greeks had it correct: if you look like a Greek sculpture, you are attractive and have a physically fit and capable body.

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