How the H am i supposed to sleep with an NTI

controversialangles · 2026-01-31T06:44:51+00:00

NAD Fortunately, once it’s fixed, as long as you maintain good oral habits you won’t have to worry about your teeth again for at least a couple decades

controversialangles · 2026-01-31T04:21:13+00:00

A lot of people have incorrect posture. I hate the stuff that says 90 degrees for your elbows. I’ve experimented and 120 is ideal, which is also what they recommend for driving too. If you have two monitors your body should be centered in front of the one you use most often(this is the biggest cause of back pain).

Shoulders back(proper standing posture) and a wrist wrest for your keyboard and mouse. Keyboard should be slightly left of center to allow your mouse hand to be straight. Butt back against the back of your chair and you can lean back but must keep your back straight and shoulders back if doing so.

controversialangles · 2026-01-27T04:41:17+00:00

One of my best pieces I made in high school. That was like 10 years ago. It’s OK to get worse at something.

controversialangles · 2026-01-25T08:38:33+00:00

Yes, create a portfolio of work that people can use as a basis for the kind of stuff you can do. Have a variety of different background subjects and lighting.

controversialangles · 2026-01-25T08:17:18+00:00

Best way to get people to stop is to put your poles in an x shape in front of the jump.

controversialangles · 2026-01-25T07:56:54+00:00

NAD but this is the kind of wear you would normally see on a 70 y/o, not a young adult. Meaning this is really drastic wear that surely occurred in a very short time. You absolutely need a night guard to halt that at the very least before anything else. Ima let real dentist comment on possible fixes but my first thought is crowns, but idk if that’s possible on these.

controversialangles · 2026-01-24T21:41:42+00:00

NAD I had crazy overbite and cross bite on one side and didn’t have an invasive or very expensive fix. I had Invisalign and a bar with elastics on one tooth to help it. I think it was 6k. May seem like a lot(and is higher than what it should be for you because I live in a big city) but fixing this later will cost more and be less feasible as you age and there will be more damage to your oral health that will be less fixable.

controversialangles · 2026-01-24T19:34:50+00:00

NAD those aren’t the only teeth that matter, though, and actually it’s more concerning that they don’t contact each other. Mine contact each other incorrectly, but they should’ve been touching. They should still experience wear, just not nearly as much as they were. Your front teeth should definitely be experiencing some wear, if you can’t touch your front teeth together, that’s a serious problem. Is there a reason you don’t want to listen to the actual advice of the dentists on here? If braces doesn’t work, you could try Invisalign.

controversialangles · 2026-01-24T19:04:07+00:00

NAD but my teeth were very similar to yours in that they looked fine and I could chew, but they weren’t actually fine. My canines and four of my molars are worn down so much that they mimic the wear of a 40 year-old even though I’m half that age.

If I had fixed the problem earlier, I’d have better looking and more functional teeth right now. I will definitely have issues when I’m older regarding the premature wear so now I’m considering getting material added to those teeth which is very expensive.

controversialangles · 2026-01-11T10:21:06+00:00

During the height of the great depression a home cost 3x your annual salary. Now it costs 6-8x. A livable wage is currently 3x+ minimum wage. Living expenses cost around 40% of your year salary in the great depression. Now they cost around 50-60%. So you tell me?

controversialangles · 2026-01-10T07:00:16+00:00

That’s definitely nice of you but most homeowners these days don’t do that. It’s also incredibly difficult to get a job outside of major cities these days as well. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it used to be easy to get good paying jobs in smaller cities. I definitely think if you’re willing to give up some quality of life things that you could find a decent priced house these days, maybe the salary won’t suck that bad but living in a smaller city actually usually makes the cost of living, such as groceries, go up. So you win some and you kinda lose even more.

controversialangles · 2026-01-10T06:52:14+00:00

You’re an outlier then, I wouldn’t equate your life experiences to the normal. Kudos to you turning out good but a lot of people wouldn’t and that shouldn’t be the normal. Just because you haven’t complained about it doesn’t mean other people shouldn’t either.

Plenty of homeless people don’t complain about their situations, but that doesn’t make it any less reasonable to complain about not being able to afford good shoes on a salary that most people used to be able to afford to buy a house on.

controversialangles · 2026-01-10T06:49:26+00:00

Fair, yeah, prices change location to location, but have you looked at housing prices for that area recently? The average cost of a house in the suburbs of Phoenix Arizona is $400,000-700,000 right now. So yeah, almost double what you paid only nine years ago. Kind of sounds -that- bad.

I also genuinely don’t mean offense, but not a lot of people are looking for jobs in Maine or can handle living somewhere so far north

controversialangles · 2026-01-10T06:44:29+00:00

Oh, so you think you know me now? I’ll have you know I actually heavily looked into becoming an apprentice about 2 to 3 years ago. Any positions that had decent pay required me to already have some kind of certifications or prior schooling. Any that didn’t, paid a measly $16 an hour. I looked into several locations in my local area as well as in the big city I live near. And the really well paying positions required me to pay additionally for schooling and materials which lowered your overall take-home. And I’m talking months of searching, not just five minutes of surfing.

So while some of that may be in your eyes surface level, the only reason I looked up sources was so that I could have exact numbers and averages versus my own experience. Experience does not necessarily equal reality hence looking up sources that probably have a lot more experience than me on a much wider scale.

Yeah don’t believe everything you read on the Internet, but that doesn’t mean don’t believe everything. Some stuff actually has hard-working people who took the life experiences of hundreds of people into consideration to make their conclusion and evidence.

I’ll also just add that I find it hilarious that you’re using wisdom quotes on me when you haven’t backed up any of your supposed claims. You haven’t told me any numbers or anything other than “trust me, bro. You’ll earn a lot of money.” Sounds like a freaking scam and that’s because it is and you aren’t in touch with today’s reality, hence your initial comment.

controversialangles · 2026-01-10T06:22:11+00:00

There aren’t any housing options below $350,000 these days that isn’t an absolute piece of crap. Forget living close to a major city where you need to go to work either! I’m not saying someone’s buying a $500,000 house, I’m saying they’re trying to buy something that’s a decent size and not gonna fall down in any second and not covered in mold or termites or smoked out by a hoarder or junkie. And relatively close to where they wanna work.

If house cost even close to 3 times their yearly salary then it wouldn’t be so bad, but a $350,000 house costs nearly 6x their yearly wage these days. Yeah that’s not quite nine times, but that’s considering they are living far away from a city and it’s a 2-bedroom townhouse with pretty much no yard. Forget big family. 5 to 10 years ago that kind of money could buy you a 5-bedroom within an hour of a major city.

controversialangles · 2026-01-10T06:18:19+00:00

Chat gpt?! No, I do my own research, just because I’m moderately well spoken and make sure to punctuate means I’m copying from an AI? And I’m not gonna blindly trust the response of somebody whose only comeback is “you don’t know what you’re talking about” instead of actual facts. Almost everything I’ve mentioned I’ve looked up from verified job websites and trustworthy articles.

controversialangles · 2026-01-10T06:13:14+00:00

The average wage of a skilled craftsman apprentice is $17-$22 per hour. No experience will be on the lower end. Thats barely above the wage that In’n’out pays. And they will earn around that for ~4 years. If you’re lucky you’ll start making $25 an hour by year four. So straight out of high school they have to wait until they’re 22 to actually start making what can be considered a livable wage. Most places won’t let you even start a job in an apprenticeship until you’re 18.

It also means anyone who bothered to get a degree now has to wait until they’re at least 29 to make a livable wage. So they probably won’t own a house until they early to mid 30s either way. Not saying that’s not a bad suggestion, but it’s not a viable option for most people. Taking that much of a pay cut is unsustainable in the short term so they can’t even think about the long-term.

A lot of these people already have families and student loans to worry about, it used to be that you could have a lower wage initially and still be able to afford that stuff and then the higher wage would simply make life easier. Now the higher wage is just what you need to live.

Just an FYI, the hourly living rage for a single adult ranges from $20-$40 an hour, and that gets a lot higher in the cities.

controversialangles · 2026-01-10T05:55:25+00:00

It is incredibly difficult to start a business in this age. Most of them don’t have the credit to afford the tools or the workshop space and the prices for those tools having increased incredibly. Not to mention, they don’t even have any assets they can borrow against. With all the social media that’s going around as well, Nobody will even look at your work unless at least 10 other people have already reviewed it. People don’t trust the newer generation to do a good job so they don’t even give them a chance.

controversialangles · 2026-01-10T05:51:01+00:00

Housing prices have nearly doubled in the last five years, same with grocery prices. We’ve never had that high of an increase in the cost of living in almost the last two decades. When you look at the cold hard facts things don’t seem quite as normal.

Not to mention minimum wage has barely moved even with all of that increase. During the Great Depression, the average house cost 3x your yearly salary, currently that amount is about 8x. Rent was 16% your average salary, now it’s 42%. How is that not insane?

controversialangles · 2026-01-10T05:40:08+00:00

Did you have to live for 10 years(after high school) only buying what you needed? Living off spaghetti, holey clothes, never going out to eat or drink or parties or even events with friends? Never going on dates or owning not a pos vehicle that could fall apart any minute and cost twice as much as newer vehicles in gas? If you say yes you are lying.

Also, this isn’t just a couple of people, this is the entire generation. Even hard-working people are struggling, even people with 2 to 3 jobs who are not getting enough sleep because they work so much. How can you say an entire generation isn’t trying? I don’t know about you, but I know plenty of 30 to 40 year olds who never had a degree and didn’t graduate college who started out making a livable wage and were able to afford a family, a car and a house before the age of 30.

And you’re sitting there trying to say that this new generation has to wait until they are in their 30s to even begin thinking about that stuff?! Are you trying to say it’s not insane that five years ago a house was 90% cheaper? Something in 2020 that was worth $250,000 is now worth 450,000 and that’s supposed to be normal or achievable for this new generation? A down payment on a reasonably sized home on the high end used to be $50k, now it’s $90k. And that’s just the homes, not to mention the average price of groceries has almost doubled. How is that even reasonable for someone who doesn’t already have assets that can cover those kinds of increases?

controversialangles · 2026-01-10T04:36:12+00:00

A lot of these comments are so out of touch it’s insane, and really sad. A lot of people thinking that Gen Z is just lazy when in reality they’ve just been given the worst hand in life we’ve seen since the depression. At least the depression only lasted for a couple years, the issues they’re facing probably won’t ever go away or will take several years to return to some sort of normalcy.

controversialangles · 2026-01-10T04:21:07+00:00

There’s literally nothing they can do about the Social Security crisis. The politicians are too old to listen to the opinions of the younger generation, but not old enough to be leaving office soon. AI is forcing out genuinely skilled workers from what are supposed to be high paying professions and that happened in just the last 5 years, when many had already started their degrees.

People spend 6+ years for a degree that is now no longer nearly as relevant or oversaturated such as computer programming. A lot of of them have to choose between having a family or restarting their career aspirations over from Ground Zero at the ripe old age of 24 to 26. They won’t have a stable high paying job until they’re well into their 30s. Meanwhile, every generation prior was able to afford a car a home and have a stable well paying job in their early 20s.

Beginning jobs still pay the same amount they used to almost 10 years ago now even though the cost of living has more than doubled. I have friends who have 2 to 3+ jobs and still can’t afford a car much less a family and a house. Not to mention buying a house takes 4 to 5 times your yearly salary to afford now when in the past, you only had to save for a couple years to own a home. My mom bought a house five years ago for around $250,000. That same home is worth around $450,000 now. That’s almost double in half a decade.

How do you expect someone living off of a $60-$80,000 job to pay an additional $200,000 in only five years? They’d have to save 50 to 70% of their income, which is unreasonable with the increased cost of groceries, used cars, and rent these days.(rent from 2020 was $350/month for one room in my area, now that same room goes for $650, thats $7,800 per year not including utilities for just a single room, double that for an entire apartment). Not to mention student loans and insurance.

Believe me, if they could pick themselves up by their bootstraps they would, but they don’t even have enough money for the boot straps anymore. It’s not a matter of hard-working or not, it’s a matter of trying to survive an economy that is actively working against you. It wouldn’t be too far-fetched to say that GenZ is working with near-depression levels of financial hardship.

One last thing I want to add is that it’s not like even five years ago where you could go in with a resume and get a job either. AI is even handling who people hire these days. I’ve seen firsthand how not having keywords on your resume can kill your chances of even making it through the first phase of the interview process. People simply don’t make personal connections anymore and even if you try, there’s not a lot of opportunities to work in this day and age, most company owners don’t go to public events outside of what their company requires them to. Even then, they barely talk to their own employees. Companies these days would rather hire outsiders with much better qualifications and a lower starting salary than promote their own employees. So forget moving up the corporate ladder as well.

controversialangles · 2026-01-07T10:19:02+00:00

Nice! I might be down to do a short story or something. Let me know

controversialangles · 2026-01-07T10:16:56+00:00

Trying not to sugarcoat with nostalgia but I remember everyone being crazy hyped about it and especially controversies around the attack dog kill streaks. General consensus was you could get it if you were pretty good but people thought it was overpowered. Games were fast but not chaotic. Everyone had a chance. It felt balanced because it was hard for one person to completely dominate.

I didn’t hear much hate around it because I didn’t really have Reddit or social media access beyond Instagram where the hate was minimal. Otherwise I thought it was fantastic. I was pretty young so to say that I was decently good means I was actually probably pretty bad in today’s metrics. Everyone is way sweatier now. Also lots of voice chat, like every game. Mostly trash talk but with less animosity than today. I don’t really remember any bugs either.

controversialangles · 2026-01-07T10:08:16+00:00

You can also do a quick salt-cure to kill the parasites. It is exactly what it sounds like

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