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I mean, if it was continual, it sounds like it’s actually the landlord skipping out on their pest control duties. That shit’s illegal.

Damn, I feel like I’ve bitten the onion, here. The article is full of quotes like that.

Unironically, I have that ad saved under comedic commercials.

“Please, try the bosghetti…”

Took me a little parsing to decipher your meaning in the last sentence, but I agree with you. They should be referred to as a bunch of little piss babies.

Ew.

I feel distressed, tbh…

They ruin all animals’ lives, including humans’.

If I see one more dead kitten in the middle of the road, I’m gonna fucking lose it.

Probably not the only one here with this kinda story, but a perfect fit black leather jacket. Used it for Beatles/50s/Grease costumes all throughout college and beyond. Same store, I also found a couple really dope vests but they no longer fit.

Ended up giving those to a younger cousin who was about the same build as me, so they’re still getting use.

This is pretty much me as well. I may use results from a search, but, for the most part, I’m never signed in and I haven’t commented or voted on anything for quite a while.

The comments seem less helpful or on point with new content from that site anyway, so whenever I am on it, it’s usually like a problem solving thread that was posted a year or more back.

Edit: I’m only signed in on my main computer as I still have that login running, I guess.

Also, idk what people are talking about with lack of content. It’s not oversaturated to the point that new posts get lost in the churn, but the communities I subscribe to have a fair amount of posts going on.

I feel like people aren’t curating their lemmy feeds well or at all if they’re not seeing content. I will say that it takes some time to figure out which communities to subscribe to, but I think the majority of that is behind me and I’m catching up with interesting content through stuff like new community or trending community posts.

“Glory! To you and your ass!”

Exactly what I want from my medical “professional” lol.

If I’m not haggling them or any other business/provider down to a price that barely doesn’t make me cry, I haven’t had a fun day.

/s

Stay strong, neighbor. You sound like a good one.

Edit: Just Anglosphere things lol

Unironically, the original trilogy credits always got me pumped up for the next one.

The first dentist I ever went to was great. He was good with kids and adults and did his job. He was realistic about kids being kids and gave us the tools and information to make sure our teeth were healthy. I had him all the way through my braces and into high school. He then retired.

My next dentist was a horrendous, preachy, asshole who loved to tell all of his patients what was wrong with them, make people feel bad for their decisions to drink soda, and surmised that we were all eating too much junk food (which he wouldn’t really elaborate on when asked). My diet wasn’t perfect, but I had mostly home cooked meals with steamed vegetables, along with the occasional fast food lunch with friends.

He was also Mormon and I know a lot of Mormons love to get on their high horse and take pleasure in being petty, insufferable, assholes. I haven’t read their batshit book (albeit, most in that genre are similarly zany and harebrained), but there must be some discussion on how to be a bad neighbor to everyone you meet in there based on their predilictions for unfair/unwarranted judgement and exclusion. He only hired other Mormon dentists to his practice and all the dental assistants were similarly preachy and religious.

I dreaded going to the dentist for mostly social reasons and didn’t want to be shamed by being told that I had better take care of my teeth (which were fine) because my parents had spent a lot of money on my braces (and it wasn’t that much money because the first dentist wasn’t a sneering profiteer).

I ditched that asshole once I went to college and have had a couple dentists since then who were fine, did their job and didn’t give me a bunch of flak for not flossing after every meal like a fucking psychopath.

Fundamentally, I think the issue with dentists is that when you get a bad one, they make you feel bad, which is the absolute antithesis of healthcare.

Additionally, because of the arbitrary and asinine distinction in the US between oral care and basically the rest of the body, dentistry is seen as cosmetic and unnecessary, often allowing or obligating dentists to charge an arm and a leg for most of their services. We all know how prices ratchet up from initial obligations to cover higher costs into “fuck the consumer, they were fine paying the higher prices anyway so let’s increase our profit margin”.

Compound that with the ridiculous price setting and insurance rackets baked into anything close to the health sector, and you have a lot of frustration even before patients get into the chair.

If you’re not a dentist who will practice compassionate care, at least be one who just shuts the fuck up and does their job. Of course let the patient know what’s going on in their mouth and how they can better take care of themselves or treat something they’re dealing with, but chill the fuck out with the fire and brimstone shit about missing a cleaning or not flossing all the time.

Healthcare is all about bedside manner. If you don’t have it, you’re not a good provider and your business can and should suffer (the fact that our healthcare structures are businesses and profit motivated is fundamentally opposed to effective care, anyway, but that’s the subject of another essay).

Edit: Cleaned it up a bit and added that my first dentist retired.

“Yeah, you like to see homos naked. That’s cool, man, whatever.”

Totally, I mean a lot of my gripe with cars is about how they’re currently used and their safety and environmental impact.

I recognize the need for low occupant vehicles, but definitely also see that we’ve blown past any reasonable projection of their use.

As far as cutting cars out of cities goes, it’s pretty important to cut commuter cars as well. Commuter trains are safer, way more easily regulated and keep cars out of the city.

I shed no tears for the owners of parking lots and ticket writers who would lose out with an increase in commuter trains. They bet on the continuation of inefficient forms of transportation and sought to capitalize on convenience, let 'em fail like commercial real estate and have the cities restructure their downtowns when the prices on those buildings plummet.

Exactly! When I took my test way back when, they didn’t even have me drive on a highway… Like, most of the crazy shit I see happens on or entering/exiting highways. I feel like mandating that in a test would keep a lot of people from danger.

And I get that people need to get to work and do errands, but the standard for getting a license is so low that their convenience comes at the expense of public safety and increased private costs, medical, legal, tickets to police vultures that just fund further oppression.

We treat driving as a necessity and cut all corners to keep selling environment destroying death traps to every member of the public. Driving is very convenient, but also inherently dangerous and the testing involved needs to accurately reflect the fatal consequences that occur wayyy too frequently.

Even if the consequences aren’t fatal, victims end up with significant injuries and even life changing disabilities. Then they’re compensated fucking pennies by greedy, profit pinching insurance companies and any actual burden for their treatment, rehabilitation, or stabilization is then borne by the victims and eventually the state.

It’s lazy, demented, and cruel, all the way around. I feel like states should have standing to fuck up auto manufacturers and insurance companies for the massive costs they shift over to the public, but we’ve never really had a justice system so that’s a ways away if it’s even possible.

Cars are fucking deathtraps and a massive waste of public and private resources.

I’ve always been a proponent of cutting down their use. Also, more stringent licensing requirements until we invest in effective public transportation (which is a hard fight already as manufacturers and even police have interest in dangerous vehicles being sold to the public).

Also, why the fuck do we have so many gigantic trucks on the road for shipping? Invest in fucking rail freight.

And, on a personal note, my grandmother still has her license and there’s no fucking way that’s safe for anyone.

Wait, I take a week off and threads federating is possible? What the hell?

“The British History Podcast” is also really solid for this.

There are also good ones on Japan, The Crusades, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire although I don’t remember their names exactly. They’re all variations on “The History of [x]” or “[x] History Podcast”.

The history of the crusades one is done by an Australian professor and she’s really good. I believe she did one on the Normans as well which was excellent, too.

Really, if you’re going with History, I would do a bit of research on how they’re perceived and make sure you like the narrator’s voice. It’s almost always one narrator which is perfect for sleep.

Additionally, I will go out and find lectures from “The Great Courses” series which are pretty well vetted for oratory because the speakers are genuine college professors. Just finished one of those on Balkan history which was really solid.

As far as vetting of podcasts goes, most of them are done by well meaning amateurs, but it should become clear whether they actually know what they’re talking about. I’d recommend Hardcore History or Great Courses lectures as a jumping off point and then see about podcasts that are similar in respect for the subject matter.