I know people who permanently lost feeling in parts of their face because of dental surgery (and that's after a longish painful recovery) Risking that just to remove a non-painful, not even impacted tooth, is insane to me
its also much cheaper to go abroad yeah. Canada I have no idea how quackish their dentists are but I believe they're in the "teeth are luxury bones and therefore not covered" school of universal healthcare
I have become incredibly skeptical of american dentistry. They can't seem to get their act together on what's actual necessary care and what's just some shit they can charge out the nose for. I've drawn my personal line at wisdom teeth, which they will usually try to extract surgically regardless of whether it's causing any problem or not. After the number of times I've had "no surgery is without risk" reinforced from both experience and medical doctors, that seems incredibly foolish. See also: Lasik
Capitalism ruins everything
Lede buried!!!!
The government also signed a decree for the Mexican State to regain full rights over passenger railroads.
yeah I think that only works if you genuinely believe that the palestinians simply hate jews and will accept the same boot but worn by arab monarchist footsoldiers instead of mostly IOF goons and drones
yeahhh
I tend to think of it as the other way around, like using "ooh so sleek and thin" as justification for the actual reasons but its probably just self-reinforcing in both directions
I'm surprised there isn't some businesses that's all about repurposing e-waste. Just install ubuntu or something and then sell them for cheap.
there are some. Not enough, and probably way more outside the imperial core, but I've seen a few. I think it's getting better as time goes on and tech iteration slows down. 10 years ago it would've been something of a struggle to run modern web pages on a 5 year old laptop, let alone an office suite, much moreso than using a 2019/2020 laptop today.
The bigger thing now I guess is the proliferation of people not even having a computer and just using their smartphone for everything. Smartphones are treated as an absolute essential, so people just suck it up and buy a new one when they can't get any more life out of the old one, rather than adapting their usage. Mandatory app updates and built-to-fail batteries and other components just seal the deal
I scrolled by this like 3 times before the words "In key swing states" really sunk in
They only fucking care because of the election.
covid made everyone dumber. That's all I've got
"huh that video title/description sounds kinda interesting..."
*clicks*
semi serious question.
I stumbled onto my local metro area's reddit while trying to look up some historical photos and stared into the abyss for a few mins.
I resisted the urge to leave libreddit and make an account just to reply but, I ran into this post that is basically complaining about having a car in one of the most central neighborhoods in the city, and asking for advice on getting off street parking (in reality, anything that isn't an overpriced surface lot that offers no protection is going to be quite a hike away from their apartment, there's no way this will work out).
They claim they work in X first ring suburb where "there are no buses" and that's why they have to have this car, which is hilarious because they could one seat ride to half of that suburb in under half an hour from a bus that leaves from their front door. the other half it'd be a 2 seat ride but still under 45 mins, and obviously way cheaper than a car. There are also plenty of neighborhoods they could move to that would have less breakins and cheap off street parking, but they seem convinced that's not the case.
But I digress.
The fellow 
ers in there commiserating about how horribly expensive off street parking is (in a neighborhood that is basically in downtown) got me thinking... If we can't get city governments to do shit about on street parking and massively unsafe roads, is allowing the street to be so unappealing to park on that people have to actually pay for their giant waste of precious urban land, a viable option to improve things?
this expectation that you should be able to just leave your 2 ton death box lying around in public anywhere for any length of time and nobody will so much as touch it doesn't apply to any other kind of property (just look at bike theft), and it really fucks with people when you violate that. I feel like that's a usable weapon, in a way, against gentrification and car dependency and traffic violence.
Were kia boys doing praxis?
These fucking dipshits lol, its winter, so the trees are missing leaves and there's coal smog on everything, which was in wide use in the west just as it was in the east because it was cheap and domestically abundant. The reason it held on longer in the east after reunification is because the east was economically hollowed out and coal continued to be cheap compared to retrofitting in modern heating.
Here's a picture from the late 60s(?) that's not in winter (though it unfortunately frames out the large trees that are visible in the foreground of the reddit OP):
the fucking trials out of australia where they successfully gave people back like their sight or hearing or whatever it was, and then the trials ended and they had to have the implants removed or disabled so the company didn't have to keep supporting them was the most heartbreaking thing I had read that month.
edit: I'm wrong it was stopping her debilitating seizures 
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/25/1073634/brain-implant-removed-against-her-will/
If this is what they do now to the test subjects imagine how much worse and more insidious it can get as the tech matures
and here's the long version (24 mins which I guess isnt that long by youtube standards these days):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuAeaIcAXtg