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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • It looks years before my dental hygienist finally explained it properly for me.

    Your gums are inflamed from fighting all the bacteria etc from not flossing. When your gums are inflamed, they’re extra full of blood, so when you do floss, you bleed a whole bunch. It has nothing to do with “toughening up your gums”.

    I’ve flossed every day since and haven’t had a problem









  • The biggest problem is they’ve over committed what those things are and what they can do.

    A lightsaber can cut through anything and the force can do just about any telekinesis you want it to.

    Now you need to either ignore these incredibly powerful tools or carefully design intricate, thoughtful problems that can’t be flashily solved by CGI theatrics.

    So what do they do? Well, 9/10 times, they just make a normal fucking movie/show with Star Wars painted on top. Lightsabers can be blocked by whatever weapon the bad guy has (make it zappy and then it’s basically the same as a lightsaber). Things get knocked just out of reach, people hang by their fingers of ledges, bad guys run away down that long street with no way to catch up and some Jedi stands there like a fucking oaf wishing it wasn’t so.

    All Disney does it up the ante. More power, more different lightsabers, more aliens, more locations. But then they slap that shit on whatever story they have laying around.



  • I’m just surprised there isn’t a shadow industry of selling blood products fed on people altruistically donating for free (like, as far as I can tell, every country with public healthcare does) with corrupt pseudo-legal marketing ensuring that blood products are not sold for profit (because they sell the bag, not the blood, or they sell the service of delivering blood, or some bullshit like that)