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I still want to know why teeth are so loving complicated. Why does something that's function is to be hard and bite things have to be so painful and breakable and liable to infection? Why does a tooth need a NERVE running through it???
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Jan 4, 2024 10:11
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My dentist always tells me "god made teeth on a bad day" So the consensus from the experts seems to be its Gods fault.
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Jan 4, 2024 10:14
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A fluffy kitten, for every small child, in a cute little bow, called mittens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JITpUxtji4s
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Jan 4, 2024 10:15
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Tesseraction posted:I'll breathe a lot easier when the tories are out of power. Starmer taking office won't count as that, though. At this point just getting rid of he populist nutjobs and getting a few years of boring will be an improvement. In the current political system you don't get to vote for what you want, just against what you hate.
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Jan 4, 2024 10:22
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Is this the sensible, practical politics? Good vibes only no policies?
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Jan 4, 2024 10:25
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The thing that gets me about dental hygiene is that there's a body of evidence that poor dental hygiene seems to have a causal effect on poor mental health, rather than the more intuitive concept that people with poor mental health don't bother to brush their teeth etc. Or is Nelson Mandela loving with me?
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Jan 4, 2024 10:32
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lmao I know we’ve been a post-satire society for a while but framing a “promise to lift the national mood” as a concrete change is really something
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Jan 4, 2024 10:33
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keef starmer to legalise weed
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Jan 4, 2024 10:35
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Grey Hunter posted:At this point just getting rid of he populist nutjobs and getting a few years of boring will be an improvement. That's a rather...American lense to be looking in on another country's politics. We haven't actually had Trump in power for the last few years (no, Bozza doesn't quite count) and Starmer is not looking to offer policies meaningly different from what we've got now - he's been explicit about it, for instance he has been criticising the Tories for not being efficient enough at being bastards to immigrants. Unlike Biden he has made zero overtures to his left, either, quite the opposite in fact. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Jan 4, 2024 |
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Jan 4, 2024 10:35
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Where did you get the idea that Grey is American from? I assume by populists he means the tory cranks that are desperately whipping up hatred agaisnt everyone they can. I don't have much confidence that starmer would be much different when in office but I don't think it's incorrect to observe that the tories are doing a similar thing to the republicans in that respect.
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Jan 4, 2024 10:42
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Seems tonally different though. Johnson I can buy as populist, his whole "I'm the face of Brexit" and TV persona and promise of optimistic change with a perceived enemy in the EU/Courts/Lords etc. combined with some progressive policy among all the chaos and clientelism, that fits. Sunak just gets called a 'WEF shill' by anyone who would vote for an actual populist party like Reform. I can't see him drawing a crowd like Trump. I can't even see him drawing a crowd like Ron DeSantis. They're tories, but not populists (nor popular).
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Jan 4, 2024 10:51
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Queef Starmer raise the national mood, my country is dying.
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Jan 4, 2024 10:52
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Pistol_Pete posted:I still want to know why teeth are so loving complicated. Why does something that's function is to be hard and bite things have to be so painful and breakable and liable to infection? Yeah this is the part that genuinely baffles me, what possible advantage is there to being an animal and knowing your tooth is busted? Until a sufficiently advanced ape came along it's not like any animal can DO anything about it, it just risks so much pain they stop eating. And said ape had to keep going for a good long time before we got the tools and understanding to effectively deal with anything. Why aren't teeth just a solid lump of enamel? Hell nevermind the eyes, maybe it's teeth that are evidence of Young Earth, they only make even a little bit if sense if the species starts out already developed enough to figure out a basic solution to tooth pain.
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Jan 4, 2024 10:57
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I'm not sure what else to call the kind of rabble rousing shite the tories are campaigning on though. It's all transparently stupid poo poo trying to manufacture outrage to distract from the fact that their actual policies are stupid and cause all the problems. I agree that it isn't popular but I do think it is trying to be populist. I don't think they're going to stop doing that once they leave office and I don't think starmer has any policies either so he's likely to just end up perpetually pandering to the furthest right newspapers and tory idiots while privatizing everything he can.
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Jan 4, 2024 10:57
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I suppose Labour wouldn't be as ad as the Tories in the sense that the Tories want to make everything worse whereas Labour want to keep it exactly as bad as it is now. I'm still not voting for that though
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Jan 4, 2024 11:01
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It would be nice to have people like Bad Enoch relegated to being a self-hating minority outside of power, I suppose.
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Jan 4, 2024 11:05
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Ms Adequate posted:Yeah this is the part that genuinely baffles me, what possible advantage is there to being an animal and knowing your tooth is busted? Until a sufficiently advanced ape came along it's not like any animal can DO anything about it, it just risks so much pain they stop eating. And said ape had to keep going for a good long time before we got the tools and understanding to effectively deal with anything. Why aren't teeth just a solid lump of enamel? This applies to any sort of chronic pain, really. Pain is just a crude method to get the brain's attention and do something about it, and as much as we'd like an off switch, evolution was smart enough to know that we'd just hit that snooze button until we died (aside: we invented the off switch anyway: drugs) But chronic pain. Man. Cmon evolution, surely you can appreciate that if the brain hasn't done anything about the injury after 24 hours then it might as well be ignored so the animal can just go ahead and get some pain-free sucking and loving in before dying. There could be some reproduction in it!
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Jan 4, 2024 11:05
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Pistol_Pete posted:I still want to know why teeth are so loving complicated. Why does something that's function is to be hard and bite things have to be so painful and breakable and liable to infection? because it's a kluge (a word I learned today), mammals having permanent teeth is a side effect of the evolutionary path from placoderms e: 
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Jan 4, 2024 11:08
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Tesseraction posted:It would be nice to have people like Bad Enoch relegated to being a self-hating minority outside of power, I suppose. Absent the tories being in power I think it's quite probable that the fringe voices in the party would become louder and more effective, honestly.
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Jan 4, 2024 11:10
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OwlFancier posted:I'm not sure what else to call the kind of rabble rousing shite the tories are campaigning on though. It's all transparently stupid poo poo trying to manufacture outrage to distract from the fact that their actual policies are stupid and cause all the problems. I agree that it isn't popular but I do think it is trying to be populist. "All your problems are the fault of the elite EU/Court system/bits of politics you don't really understand" worked for the purposes of Brexit (especially because the EU does put out a bunch of lovely policy at times), but when you're throwing the same charges at a bunch of people in small boats, and trying to whip up anti-migrant sentiment where it has collapsed, and coming up with nonsense like 'the blob' that doesn't even have the decades of left and right use that 'the swamp' had in the USA, they're not succeeding at all at actually being populist, they're just appealing to a bunch of racist old newspaper readers. At which point 'nationalist' or 'falangist' or 'transparently stupid poo poo' all fit better. Microplastics posted:(aside: we invented the off switch anyway: drugs)
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Jan 4, 2024 11:11
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Tesseraction posted:Where roughly are you based? Because even my NHS dentist often has two dedicated receptionists and a dedicated nurse for each dentist. They are public-private mind you and I think like many their registers for NHS are full until more of the elderly patients pass away. I’m in Glasgow. It’s not even just a one off kind of thing, I’m addition to my own NHS dentist, this was the situation at the clinic they sent me to since they couldn’t see me, and the apparent situation at three other dentists I got in contact with trying to find someone who would do it privately, but they were all clinics who did both NHS and private work. Most of the dentists in my area seem to be small affairs, with maybe two clinics in the premises and only one dentist on shift on the days I visited (and sometimes I’m the case of my registered dentist, no dentist at all!) It might have been presumptuous of me to assume that situation was replicated all over though.
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Jan 4, 2024 11:14
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I'm working from a cafe and sat next to a dudebro who's also working. He's on a call and I've been eavesdropping. I think he works in some sort of property management. There was mention of "Kier Starmer's constituency" and "get the labour party out to free up that site" lmao
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Jan 4, 2024 11:15
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kecske posted:placoderms loving placoderms, I KNEW it would be all their fault 
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Jan 4, 2024 11:35
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kecske posted:keef starmer to legalise weed Keith to institute national toothbrushing and flossing policy, instantly improving national mental health outcomes. E: actually no that's much too worthwhile and evidence-based to be a Starman policy E2: Microplastics posted:I'm working from a cafe and sat next to a dudebro who's also working. He's on a call and I've been eavesdropping. I think he works in some sort of property management. There was mention of "Kier Starmer's constituency" and "get the labour party out to free up that site" lmao Wouldn't be totally surprised if Keith moonlighted as an evictions bailiff
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Jan 4, 2024 11:36
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Microplastics posted:This applies to any sort of chronic pain, really. Pain is just a crude method to get the brain's attention and do something about it, and as much as we'd like an off switch, evolution was smart enough to know that we'd just hit that snooze button until we died (aside: we invented the off switch anyway: drugs) yeah that's the issue with leprosy iirc, it turns off the nerves so you don't know you're cut or hurt so hello infections like gangrene
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Jan 4, 2024 11:37
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Failed Imagineer posted:E: actually no that's much too worthwhile and evidence-based to be a Starman policy Keith will make https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CrPAl1aDzM real.
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Jan 4, 2024 11:39
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Microplastics posted:I'm working from a cafe and sat next to a dudebro who's also working. He's on a call and I've been eavesdropping. I think he works in some sort of property management. There was mention of "Kier Starmer's constituency" and "get the labour party out to free up that site" lmao Hope you offered to help get Kieth out
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Jan 4, 2024 11:39
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Evolution doesn't have a logic, it doesn't decide things. Its answer to tooth pain is " better luck next generation"My answer to tooth pain is guillotine the rich and nationalise the dentists kecske posted:because it's a kluge (a word I learned today), mammals having permanent teeth is a side effect of the evolutionary path from placoderms Ihr sieht nicht kluge aus, did you mean kludge?
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Jan 4, 2024 11:42
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mrpwase posted:Ihr sieht nicht kluge aus, did you mean kludge? Both spellings are acceptable apparently, since it derives from the German word, although addmittedly the extra D (heh) helps with English pronunciation expectations
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Jan 4, 2024 11:44
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Tesseraction posted:The thing that gets me about dental hygiene is that there's a body of evidence that poor dental hygiene seems to have a causal effect on poor mental health, rather than the more intuitive concept that people with poor mental health don't bother to brush their teeth etc. Nah, if you've got damaged teeth that look unsightly and constantly ache, obviously that's going to have a deleterious effect on your self-esteem and general mood. I broke a veneer on a front tooth and just did not want to look people in the face until I'd got it fixed, god knows what I'd have done if I couldn't afford it.
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Jan 4, 2024 11:45
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Pistol_Pete posted:Nah, if you've got damaged teeth that look unsightly and constantly ache, obviously that's going to have a deleterious effect on your self-esteem and general mood. I broke a veneer on a front tooth and just did not want to look people in the face until I'd got it fixed, god knows what I'd have done if I couldn't afford it. Poorly fitted or rejected dentures also strongly correlate with a decline in cognition in the elderly
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Jan 4, 2024 11:46
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Reveilled posted:It might have been presumptuous of me to assume that situation was replicated all over though. huh, well it's not presumptive I'm more than willing to believe I have the One Dentist In Britain Who Isn't hosed
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Jan 4, 2024 11:46
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Failed Imagineer posted:Both spellings are acceptable apparently, since it derives from the German word, although adddmittedly the extra D (heh) helps with English pronunciation expectations Then I would like to apologise to kecske, er sieht wirklich kluge aus Over the last 24 hours all three UK threads have talked about the darts, truly we are united as a nation
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Jan 4, 2024 11:47
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Grey Hunter posted:At this point just getting rid of he populist nutjobs and getting a few years of boring will be an improvement. Ah yes, populism is clearly the problem here, and our lives will be significantly improved once Westminster stops even pretending to work for the public and embraces pure parasitic elitism. Seriously, 'populist' becoming the default term for 'politics I don't like' was one of the more insidious elements of mainstream political discourse in the past almost-decade.
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Jan 4, 2024 11:48
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Failed Imagineer posted:Keith to institute national toothbrushing and flossing policy, instantly improving national mental health outcomes. Means-tested tax credits on toothbrushes for over-70s
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Jan 4, 2024 11:51
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Soricidus posted:Means-tested tax credits on toothbrushes for over-70s You have to taper that down to zero over 3 years though, can't have people becoming dependent on handouts!
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Jan 4, 2024 11:52
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mrpwase posted:Evolution doesn't have a logic, it doesn't decide things. Its answer to tooth pain is " Evolution needs a selection pressure to work on, so you can't just guillotine rich British people and expect teeth to improve. *cog turns slowly in head*
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Jan 4, 2024 11:54
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Also since the tech subforum threads are mostly US based, where's the best place to get a new phone these days? I tried looking at provider deals but might be easier to just buy a new one My current one has been serving me since 2018 and it's starting to have ghosts like opening apps at random and the clipboard can cause app freezes and errors And yes it keeps letting me make my terrible posts.
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Jan 4, 2024 11:57
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Tesseraction posted:Also since the tech subforum threads are mostly US based, where's the best place to get a new phone these days? I tried looking at provider deals but might be easier to just buy a new one Google Store. (That's a website, not an instruction)
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Jan 4, 2024 11:58
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Pistol_Pete posted:Nah, if you've got damaged teeth that look unsightly and constantly ache, obviously that's going to have a deleterious effect on your self-esteem and general mood. I broke a veneer on a front tooth and just did not want to look people in the face until I'd got it fixed, god knows what I'd have done if I couldn't afford it. Oh there is that element but I also seem to recall a study about the links between poor oral hygiene and mental decline, suggesting a link between bacteria at the back of the throat and them getting to the tail of the brain stem.
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Jan 4, 2024 11:59
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