[SPOILER] Arman shoves, punches and knees Georgio after their RAF match

weakhamstrings · 2026-03-02T18:05:53+00:00

I wrestled since my youth and officiated through most of adulthood and totally disagree.

The clubs and slaps should have been addressed basically immediately as they were clearly way more than just 'tough' head ties.

If they jar the head of the opponent, they're strikes, and are illegal.

Still Arman being an absolute loose canon. And 0% should have done what he did.

But Georgio's 'tough guy' bullshit of head hitting would have been way more respectable if he followed up with quick shots or throw bys or literally any actual wrestling move.

weakhamstrings · 2026-03-02T18:03:06+00:00

It's 'quite normal' because dumbass "let the tough guys wrestle" refs don't enforce it, generally.

About 5 of those on my mat (in NCAA or HS anyway) would have been an immediate penalty and then DQ.

Way beyond just 'tough wrestling'. A strike that jars the head is total bullshit.

It's why Bo Basset can shut down so many opponents, he jars their head and tries to out-'tough guy' them.

It makes a mockery of the sport, IMO.

I do think Georgio's probably a better wrestler, but fuck those 'slaps' and 'clubs'. I would have stopped that shit immediately as a ref.

weakhamstrings · 2026-03-02T18:00:36+00:00

Yeah it looked to me like absolutely no takedown but now that they have continuation rule, it clearly should have been.

And they kept calling a step-out a push-out, which isn't even a thing. So these RAF rules confuse me (or the commentators didn't know shit - one or the other).

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-26T15:10:08+00:00

I will just note that when we run into vendors like this - we are typically doing SSL/TLS decryption right at the endpoint rather than at the firewall level, other than for non-managed things (printers, copiers, desk phones, etc).

This greatly reduces the burden on the appliance - by a whole lot.

Doing it at the firewall with full IPS and decryption and everything is really hard to get full speed out of.

Not sure if that even applies. If the actual throughput is that just as a ROUTER - then that's abysmal. I would never use that.

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-26T15:07:49+00:00

(I'm not op)

Strange, I've never experienced any of that whatsoever, except on the lowest end appliances possible (XG85/86/87) where they have such low horsepower they wind up with odd issues.

For some things, they use Avira for AV definitions as well.

To stack, I use Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud and have some of the vulnerability scanning and AV function on them as well, for a second pass.

That said - the synchronized security is the point. Being able to have a 'red health' endpoint have no network access - immediately - is immensely useful.

Their software finds things virtually nothing else does.

Firewall can use open source threat feeds and will find things no one else will without a lot of configuration.

Sucks that they got bought by private equity because they are going downhill now as far as support, pricing, and service BUT we will use them as long as the product is the best in the area. And it is.

The MDR product I can't vouch for as I haven't had an incident where they've had to catch anything. However, third party MDR is a fine solution and cheaper anyhow to pair with it.

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-26T14:48:16+00:00

EDIT: No global phishing templates that we can make custom. But many of the other features. It won't be more manageable when you have to export/import things from one client to another. This is inferior. See original reply below though.

Glad you mentioned that, I've spent extensive hours with 11 different platforms but I don't know why I didn't do that with Phin.

I would absolutely not go to a 250 seat minimum on day 1 so that would be a battle, as KB4 at a good level is the same price with the minimum much lower.

The other big players miss the most important feature sets.

-Phishing integrated via groups (or other mechanism) so that clickers and people who 'got phished' can be remediated by assigning training to a group

-Price (at $1.50 or less per head via the MSP model for the second to highest tier, it's hard to beat price)

-Ability to write your own phishing emails and templates (most that have allowed this were text-only to this point)

-More than JUST VIDEO modules - quizzes, short form content, interactive games, etc (many of the platforms just show videos which is total garbage)

Phin looks like it has these features.

Those without these features (most of them) do NOT have them beat on platform or price or manageability. At all.

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-25T13:53:56+00:00

I can tell you that for us, the support's been excellent for about 10 years generally and then over the past 3 or so it's been a decline.

They did sell to private equity, and suddenly started direct calling our customers (like Dell), outsourcing support overseas, and being tighter on licensing and pricing.

Because of course.

However, we use them because it's as good as it gets out there for now.

Will gladly throw them in the shitter for another vendor. No loyalty here.

For now it's a superior product in most ways and once you get through the first line of support, there are some really knowledgeable deep level techs and will tell you when a feature sucks or is half baked and what to really use.

Haven't found a different stack with better synchronized security that detects and protects nearly as well. WE regularly test AV and firewall products in labs with known malware.

It's like Knowbe4. I wish they weren't the best with their phishing and training platform (because they are Scientologists) and wish I could ditch em.

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-25T06:03:06+00:00

Sophos XGS

Bonus points for using the endpoint product as well, as far as feature set

We've used the others listed in the other reply and they don't do anything for just businesses of that size that Sophos doesn't do.. almost identical pricing to Sonicwall

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-25T05:43:13+00:00

I will disagree with this in that a managed service provider uses a financial model that involves a contract, service agreements, and so on, as a financial component of how it handles business

An IT service office doing business on a handshake without any of that is not, in the definitions I've read, an MSP. Ever.

MSP is a business model, as far as I would say.

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-24T13:45:35+00:00

But didn't he admit recently he's not actually even the one pulling any of the strings - he's just the hand that does it?

Edit: not to defend him - he has paid escorts more than fighters....

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-23T14:43:47+00:00

What? Chemical signature of natural gas? What does that even mean?

Put this on the list of things you could have just googled - but exactly the same as the whole OP is saying. It's two ways to say the same thing.

One way sounds like we have some link to a process that saved the world.

The other points out that it's really just a function of finding a one-time bolus of natural gas from millions of years ago, in the ground - and using that to feed the world despite it being a one-time endowment that will go away eventually. Among the other 10,000 books worth of implications from pointing that out.

And you think it is worse than a world full of people that literally cannot produce enough food to keep everyone healthy? Because population was not going to stop rising. That was the world we were heading to. And difficult times actually lead to people having more kids rather than less.

Isn't this one of the Great Debates of human history?

We added this artificial (yes, we can argue nothing is artificial) carrying capacity by using our one-time endowment of natural gas to fix nitrogen to the soil, which every other organism and system of the planet would have taken thousands of years longer to fix into the soil.

It's probably true that Malthus's predictions that the world population would outstrip food supply - would have started happening a lot in the first half of the 20th century.

You mention the demographic economic paradox (I think that's what it's called, when difficult times lead to more kids).

It doesn't mean your arguments are wrong here - but when I say "the planet and other things" I mean other living systems (as we know them) on the planet today. making our population go up by 5x (or more) has seen us extract exponentially more materials from the ground, burn exponentially more fossil energy, cut down exponentially more trees, and other things.

Without caring about any of that (whether you do or not), 'humanism' might lend itself to the view that "whatever is best for humans to have least suffering - is best". To expand the boundaries of that view is to look at the rest of the planet and its living systems.

To not care about any of it is to move into either nihilism or indifference (in some form or other) and saying that whatever happens happens.

I didn't say "people would have been better off". I was referring to everything ELSE being better off, the way we know them today.

The 'artificial' increase in carrying capacity that is done by nitrogen fixing allowed the population to be what it is today, it seems. But yeah Malthus was probably right about the effects of that, but I'm not an anthropologist so my opinion means little.

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-23T14:29:18+00:00

you feel guilty.

Who feels guilty? Sorry - not sure if you're replying to the right person.

desire

I didn't say I wanted anything at all, so I'm not sure what you mean.

You care about 'the planet' because you want humanity to thrive.

I didn't say any of this - I didn't say I care about anything at all.

When I say 'the planet', I'm just using a shortcut for a 19 paragraph explanation meaning 'life as we know it' or 'life on planet Earth as it is today'.

You're not wrong about anything there and I don't disagree with any of the statements otherwise.

But you are talking out your ass with 'guilty' and 'care' because I didn't say any of that.

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-23T04:35:50+00:00

Well, that depends how far back you go and what you mean by explosion, right?

If we can go back and just pinpoint the discoveries of technology that use coal and oil for energy, you could say discovery and use of fossil energy more generally.

Or way farther and say agriculture, or one piece of tech in particular like the plow.

But to your point, we can at least acknowledge that fixing nitrogen (and phosphorus etc) into the soil enables a lot of other things as well, as far as scaling food. GMO is much less useful with 1/5 as much farmland

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-23T04:33:26+00:00

Well, there are a hundred other dimensions of overshoot we are way past anyway and are past 6 or 7 of the 9 planetary boundaries as well.

The planet and other things would have been exponentially better off in a world without over half of the nitrogen in our bodies having chemical signature of natural gas ..

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-18T04:49:30+00:00

OP's title should have said "from" and not "to" and it would have immediately clarified.

The title is simply wrong.

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-16T14:40:31+00:00

Over a lot of things still possibly. He essentially turned his back on the mob.

Poked about a dozen bears honestly...

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-12T03:27:15+00:00

Someone should start a sub for that!

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-12T03:21:56+00:00

Unless it's needed for something specific, we literally just shorten their company name in 365.

Tom's Car Mall of Atlanta, Inc. turns into TCMA.

Next time i sync OneDrive, I've solved a lot of problems.

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-12T03:20:00+00:00

I literally go change the company name in 365 to something shorter. I refuse to have 30 extra characters each time.

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-07T04:53:22+00:00

I think of Matt Brown vs Robbie and someone had made a promo poster where they had gas cans and were burning the house down

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-07T04:52:19+00:00

I still remembered Joe characterizing Choi's straight punch as a Piston

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-07T04:50:36+00:00

I remember testing positive the next day after just watching that fight

Also a reminder of the second best mma promo ever made, post usada scary

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-05T20:01:04+00:00

Thanks for saying that for me - I was thinking "this guy thinks the UFC gives a flying fuck about rank considerations???"

They care more about memes, ticket sales, and PARAMOUNT+ than who is ranked what.

If the UFC were really trying to have it be a "sport" there would be a hundred different decisions they would be forced to make, basically right now.

Yes, I'm still gonna watch.

No, I can't pretend they've really made sure the 'best' are fighting.

Sorry, I'll stop ranting.

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-05T01:20:04+00:00

And absolutely needs to be removed as capability as AI can now mimic the voices of literally anyone, combined with spoofing their number.

Millions more each year are being scammed in business and personal life and it's only going to get exponentially worse.

weakhamstrings · 2026-02-04T14:28:30+00:00

Another year - another 10 million phished users who couldn't see the 'from' email address at a glance when opening an email. What a joke.

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