I hate dentists. Or rather, I hate dentistry. I'm sure dentists are nice enough. I can birth babies at home with no pain relief fine, but start drilling into my tooth when it's fully numb and I lose my mind.
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Also, they insist on poking and scraping at your teeth to inspect them with little metal hooks and other scratchy implements that will destroy the enamel and create cavities, giving them work to do 6 months later. I avoid dentists because I am convinced their inspections are bad for your teeth. I only go when I know there's a real problem. Last gap between visits was 13 years, and I just went in for a tiny filling.
Unfortunately Sarah has been using the same strategy, but her teeth aren't as durable as my own...
I vomited my way through 9 pregnancies during that time. Apparently vomiting is great at helping you lose weight, but not so good for your teeth.
I've never vomited my way through pregnancy but I have lost weight on occasions. I'm delighted to say I do still have most of my teeth though.
Last time, I asked the dentist to give the anesthetic shot to my wallet coz I knew it would hurt so much when I got the bill.
I'm sure all the moms know more about this than I (a childless man), but I've heard that pregnancy itself is also hard on teeth. Apparently the body will strip out it's own calcium if necessary for the baby.
A friend of mine is one of three daughters born to a woman during about a 3-4 year period. The mom didn't take additional calcium during pregnancy, and all her teeth fell out immediately afterwards. That was a major bummer since mom was in her mid twenties at the time.
I'm kinda weird, and don't generally mind going to the dentist. I like the way my teeth feel especially clean after a cleaning. That said, I do think dentists charge way too much. Some also seem to engage in dubious business practices.
One time, I didn't have dental insurance and had a break of 4-5 years between dental visits. Nothing significant happened, and the hygienist didn't even notice anything out of the norm when I went in for my subsequent teeth cleaning.
Calcium absorbtion is an interesting thing. I remember reading your body only takes in calcium in the stage of digestion between when the acid treated food is released from your stomach into the small intestine and when the acid is neutralized. Also it needs to be a small molecule to be usable by the human body. I have had nine children over a bit more then 20 years. I used @FollowingHim's strategy for when to go in....(with an exception once when I had a bad toothache and pulled it myself
) but even without vomiting like @FollowingHim2 my nutrition was probably less than optimal at times in pregnancy ....so most of my molars are no more. Upside to that is ya can't get a toothache in teeth you don't have.My hubby has strong enamel... but receeding gums. (Opposite my issues) Wouldn't it be nice if our children could get the good from each of us?
Biggest problem for me has been finding a dentist that does good work, for less then a small fortune. Took some of our children to a dentist someone reccomended. Drove 2 hrs because he was recommended. Sadly he rushed through the work did a lousy job, and some of the fillings fell out in less then six months. He still charged us over 2 grand for a couple hours of his time.
We dont mind paying for a good job....but paying for a bad job?
Our guys do top quality work. They did a job recently that was a long drive and up in the mountains. The bid reflected that. They worked for two people that were very happy to pay for what was done. Because our crew is both hard working and skilled the job went fast. One tree was a dangerous standing dead pine....the worst they had seen. When you can stick your pocket knife blade fully into the side of the tree? it is that ROTTEN....there is less integrity in the "hinge" that is cut in felling. They removed it safely and without damaging the house (and it wanted tonfall that way) or other trees. That day the crew earned about a thousand an hour......but if Hubby told anyone in bidding that he charges that much an hour... they would have a fit.
*shrugs* My man has a long day of bidding work today. And we don't advertise at all. The folks they work for do that for us. We are booked out sometimes almost 3 months.
A good job or good product sells itself. Then there are the poisoned needles and companies (or polishittans) with no ethics. Judge by fruit people.
Baby will take anything it needs. People were always worried when I would lose weight in pregnancy, especially my first because that was really bad. They thought it was bad for baby. But I always told them that baby was perfectly fine and that was why I was losing so much weight, because baby was using it.
Same with breastfeeding while pregnant. Lots of people thought I should stop feeding because it would be bad for me and bad for my unborn baby. I kept feeding until 1 of 2 things happened. Either the baby quit breastfeeding (which sometimes happens because the taste of the milk changes during pregnancy), or my milk supply dropped off. If my supply went down then my body wasn't handling doing pregnancy and breastfeeding so it dropped the side that wasn't as important. Unborn baby was always fine, and the born baby was always fine, and I managed to survive it lol.
Sadly, I don't have any night vision devices yet. I am seriously considering it, but a basic gen. 3 white phosphorus pvs14 monocular (night vision equivalent of a Toyota Camry or Glock 19) is about $3000, and there is about another $1000 of accessories that you probably want. $4000 is a lot of money, and can be very useful for other things as well (like thousands of pounds of food, or thousands of rounds of ammo).
I have looked through other people's night vision devices and definitely see the value in them.
It is too bad that Joe Biden won't give me any. He gave thousands of them to the Taliban. Many of the ones he gave the Taliban were far better and more expensive models than the one I described above.
From the news photos, I see that Joe Biden also gave the Taliban a bunch of nice ACOG scopes (on full auto M4s). I think ACOGs typically run around $1200-1400. I have to make do with much less expensive Primary Arms and Nikon scopes on my semi auto AR15s.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/survey-40-people-would-have-sex-humanoid-robot
Can a robot be programmed to surrender hir life to our Messiah?
Can a robot be programmed to surrender hir life to our Messiah?
I’ve posted about this before, but this is more about the Deagel Report in the form of an interview:
https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-shocking-2025-deagel-forecast/
https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-shocking-2025-deagel-forecast/
Do not conclude in advance that the link at the bottom of this message is just some boring repeat of others that I pass along. Just watch the news; they are now lying to us with impunity and telling the truth to us with the kind of impunity that demonstrates that they know they will never be punished and therefore do not have to pretend to be anything other than fascists and tyrants.
"As far as a cyber pandemic and closing down the Internet is concerned, I’d say that’s a near certainty. They definitely want to do that, because the fact of the matter is that you’re only as alive as you can communicate with others."
"In Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, he talks about how, when they’re all together in the Gulag under the worst possible conditions, they said, “If we had only known, when they came to round us up as individuals… if we’d only grabbed a frying pan, or a pipe, or a rock and attacked these criminals…” But they were afraid. And they didn’t think that things could possibly be as bad as they turned out to be."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/doug-casey-next-crisis-global-elite-have-planned
"As far as a cyber pandemic and closing down the Internet is concerned, I’d say that’s a near certainty. They definitely want to do that, because the fact of the matter is that you’re only as alive as you can communicate with others."
"In Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, he talks about how, when they’re all together in the Gulag under the worst possible conditions, they said, “If we had only known, when they came to round us up as individuals… if we’d only grabbed a frying pan, or a pipe, or a rock and attacked these criminals…” But they were afraid. And they didn’t think that things could possibly be as bad as they turned out to be."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/doug-casey-next-crisis-global-elite-have-planned
So 40% of people would consider sex with a robot. What % of people would consider masturbating with a sex toy? A "sex robot" is just a fancy vibrator, fundamentally. The statistics are not at all surprising.
But everyone needs to watch Futurama's awesome explanation of why this is bad, from a few years ago:
Has anyone shown this to the Biden administration? This seems like a greater threat to civilization than climate change or white supremacists.
