abben @abbenm@anticapitalist.party

The number of times they tried to get me to "consider" a branded Oral-B Electronic Toothbrush(TM) at the dentists office was kind of crazy. They mentioned it by name and gave me a pamphlet for it. And there were posters for it in each little dentist room (the ones with the chairs and drills etc) and there was even one on the mirror in the fuddrucking bathroom.

Here for a fractured tooth that's been fractured for a while, but, I guess through dumb luck, has not been painful. But I need it to be fixed.

As I was brushing my teeth before coming here, I thought of the saying, which I heard of the Serial podcast, about the morning before trial. Something about how it tends to focus the mind.

I guess that popped in my head because I feel like I'm going to be tried and sentenced. First time at a dentists in years, no idea what they will say.

It's like MRAs and trolls have poisoned reddits culture so bad, it's advanced from hatred of feminism to hatred of motherhood in general.

Like (1) why is this of all things the hill to die on and (2) how stupid do you have to be to not grasp the point, that the life of a mother is often more exhausting and draining, and that having the time and energy to get through a day while being responsible for a kid is really hard?

And yes, its fair to say that it really is a "special" responsibility where some deference is appropriate.

Wtf is the matter with these people? This is somehow a highly upvoted, front page post. And people calling out the post for it's shittiness are being mass downvoted.

https://old.reddit.com/comments/a4hc7e/

#np Dreaming Awake by My Brightest Diamond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2eB3ht9uro

science fact 2: if u bury a small cow in the ground it grows into a full cow!

science fact: if u bury a doritos can in the ground it grows into a whole bag of chips!

I have four "cool space/physics" facts I love like a kid clutching his favorite toys.

(1) Is the double slit experiment because duh

(2) Is Baade's window and the fact that there's a great curtain of dust preventing us from seeing 99.999% of the Milky Way's stars that we COULD otherwise be seeing.

(3) is the fact that the "midpoint" between a planck length and the size of the universe is the order of magnitude typical of living cells.

(4) is that thing I just shared.

Those are my things

Up for an astonishing space fact that you probably haven't heard?

Here's physicist Paul Davies, from his book Other Worlds (1980).

There's a Medicare For All study that, predictably, says it saves a ton of money. And there's a reddit thread about it.

Then there are people who SOUND like they are disagreeing with the substance study but are really making a small academic point bout difference between single payer vs multi-payer systems, but aren't objecting to the cost savings which are like 99.99% of the substance of the study.

And people are replying to THAT saying "yeah, see, this is why we can't trust the study."

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Ali G, interviewing CERN physicist: what's the farthest you can throw a microscope?