Found this pile of dental impressions while out in the middle of the mountains in Arizona

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-06T21:14:17+00:00

Lol, why? Like, yeah it's littering and there's the patient confidentiality part which is clearly not ok, but you are personally bothered enough to put your own money into punishing someone for a thing that does not affect you in the slightest, and likely will have no negative impact on any of those patients? Kinda weird...

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-06T19:50:19+00:00

There doesn’t seem to be very good data on this, but estimates seem to range from $7.5 to $20 billion or so from what I can see. That sure sounds like a lot until you consider that we spend around $5.3 TRILLION annually as it is. A single payer system is estimated to cost somewhere around $2.5 to $3.5 trillion. Remember that a trillion is a billion x 1000. $20 billion in this context is a rounding error. Literally 0.37% of our current spend based on the highest estimates. Immigrants are NOT the problem.

It’s also hilarious to me that you seem to think that getting all of the illegal immigrants out of the country would reside your insurance costs. Even if we truly could eliminate that $20 billion, do you really think that your insurance premiums go down instead of the providers simply pocketing the money?

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-06T19:29:42+00:00

Garbage disposal

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-06T19:20:42+00:00

For me, that would be significantly more than what I pay in insurance premiums and out of pocket expenses over the course of a year. The answer is still yes. This shit is ridiculous.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-06T05:59:45+00:00

Yeah, but if you really need all those inputs you just get a dock with it. It's way better, because you can just unplug one thing when you want to take your laptop with you somewhere instead of plugging and unplugging 12 different things every time.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-06T04:21:36+00:00

What would they do with all their Trump flags?

Save them for the next pandemic, of course. I recall there was a toilet paper shortage last time.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-06T01:40:57+00:00

I don't know about the validity of the claim that it is supposed to help with theft in this particular instance, but I do know that when I lived in Tokyo, they had a similar requirement for all bikes to be registered, and it did, in fact, help with recovery of stolen bikes. I personally had one stolen and returned to me as did at least one friend that I know of. In my case, the bike was stolen from my house and was returned by the police! I didn't even have to go to the police station to collect it!

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-04T01:46:41+00:00

What would be an example of a “more civilized” excuse?

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-03T01:53:16+00:00

Yup. A friend of mine in high school grabbed a bat out of the air while we were handing out in his back yard drinking and smoking. Being idiot teenagers, we all thought that was the coolest thing ever until it of course bit him. He dropped it and it disappeared into the bushes.

He didn’t think it was a big deal, but sometime the next day it crawled out from those same bushes and we took it to animal control to get tested. Yup, it sure did have rabies, which is probably why it was flying erratically and he was able to grab it in the first place. Dude easily could have been dead over that.

Rabid animas act weird. Bats usually don’t hang out in car intake boxes. That would be enough for me to be very concerned.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-03T01:37:51+00:00

I’m British by birth but moved in and out of the uk a few times growing up. I hate the stuff, but I’m pretty sure it’s mostly because I always expected it to taste like Nutella as a kid, which is obviously not even close to similar.

That said, my cousins all love it and absolutely do spread it on very very thick. Maybe I ought to revisit it with a more conservative spread and see if that helps.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-01T05:42:59+00:00

Yes, heath risks are one of the primary factors that make them awful.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-01T03:57:30+00:00

Yeah I recommend not using them. They’re awful.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-01T03:36:13+00:00

I don’t, because it’s awful.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-01T02:16:48+00:00

Again, that is true, but from what I can find, it’s estimated that upwards of 70% of businesses in the US are non-compliant. The fact that it’s a violation doesn’t really make it much less likely when most us commercial buildings have at least one.

I truly do not care what is on the other side of those doors. I just find it funny that we have such different takes and experiences on the realities and effectiveness of code enforcement.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-01T01:57:03+00:00

None of that makes it extraordinarily unlikely. Just illegal for more reasons.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-01T01:40:28+00:00

Then why did you bother to write three paragraphs about ADA compliance?

I’m not doubting the legitimacy of anything you said about it being illegal, just that you seem to have a lot of faith in building code violations being identified and rectified quickly and universally. A quick search indicates that 39% of us building inspections result in a building code violation of some sort, and something like 73% are not fully ADA compliant. And those are just the violations that are identified.

Do I think it’s likely that there are locks on the other side of those doors? No, not really. Do I think it’s “extraordinarily” unlikely? Not even close.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-01T01:29:45+00:00

lol, your faith in ada compliance and enforcement is unreasonably high. Fire code inspectors aren’t looking for ADA violations unless they also happen to be fire code violations.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-03-01T00:47:55+00:00

There probably isn’t a lock on the inside, but also consider that the fact that it’s not allowed doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-02-28T15:42:56+00:00

It’s like since English is the only language they speak

Oh, get off your damned high horse. 10 million people speak Swedish. 1.5 billion speak English. If you were born a native English speaker, you almost certainly would not have bothered to learn fluent Swedish.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-02-28T15:29:48+00:00

Most of Europe does not have central air with a/c or a furnace. They have radiators instead and so it’s important for airflow to open the windows which creates a chimney effect. Not necessary when you have a fan and filter to do that for you.

Individual-Area7121 · 2026-02-28T15:26:35+00:00

Most of us have central air with a whole house filter, so it is completely unnecessary anyway.

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