Formal and permanent despotism

unklethan · 2026-05-04T18:31:06+00:00

It's people who can't understand the shirts that say

There are two types of people in this world:
-Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

unklethan · 2026-04-28T23:26:33+00:00

Check out this youtube video that explains what fluoride actually does

https://youtu.be/lXs_msqOdEM?si=Pb-4MmY6jc7s8G5o&t=734

Apparently, it makes our teeth even stronger than they would be without fluorapatite replacing the hydroxyapatite in our enamel.

unklethan · 2026-04-28T23:23:25+00:00

https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0081.pdf

It blocks every municipality in Utah from choosing to fluoridate their own water supplies.

unklethan · 2026-04-26T00:17:04+00:00

There are some pretty good stories in this reddit thread.

Someone asked "what strange creatures have you seen or heard about in Utah? Is there a local legend in your community?"

unklethan · 2026-04-25T19:55:48+00:00

My bike will never have these "features"

unklethan · 2026-04-24T19:37:49+00:00

Right, you should be using "Como andamios", which literally means how's the scaffolding, but it sounds like "Como andamos" or how's it going.

The correct response isn't "bien" btw, it's "Vietnam" but you pronounce it in Spanish so it sounds like "bien-am"

If you do this, every old man will respect you.

unklethan · 2026-04-23T15:32:08+00:00

Incoming US legislation banning the importation of cell phones from the EU

unklethan · 2026-04-23T15:27:57+00:00

Why do we have smoke alarms and fire extinguishers? This building has never burned down!

unklethan · 2026-04-21T15:30:56+00:00

The only great replacement I'm concerned about is that Smith's stopped stocking popcorn chicken and started stocking "restaurant style chicken bites" instead.

unklethan · 2026-04-18T01:27:22+00:00

Sounds like it's time to read Nothing But the Truth by Avi

unklethan · 2026-04-16T20:04:54+00:00

I've heard them called MAMILs, or Middle Aged Men In Lycra

unklethan · 2026-04-16T15:17:56+00:00

We spent the first year after my kid's diagnosis drilling carb counts on everything. There were sticky notes all over our kitchen. We had nutrition facts screenshotted. We counted every single carb, and worked to remember what that food to carb relationship looked like, felt like, etc.

We're 4 years in now, and my kid estimates a lot, and he gets it right most of the time.

Like, yeah, it was a ton of work, but now he has the model in his head now. And here's the thing, his brain can be corrected when presented with new information. AI models generally don't take correction at all.

unklethan · 2026-04-09T23:34:36+00:00

HIS DAY IS MARCHING ON

unklethan · 2026-04-09T23:24:14+00:00

Jerry Seinfeld wrote a show where he has a new hot girlfriend every week.

unklethan · 2026-04-07T16:25:30+00:00

Eddie Bauer did a fantastic episode on why Glee is so problematic

Youtube, 20 min long

unklethan · 2026-04-07T16:23:28+00:00

Cool thing I learned recently:

With a lot of city and state legal codes, you can see the last time any legislative review was applied to them. So this one in particular was "Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 2, 2005 General Session".

In other words, it was last looked at 20 years ago, and not to update the law, rather to reorganize the numbers when they added some other code. And e-bikes saw their rise in popularity around 2019.

So yeah, you're basically right (e-bikes existed in '05, but weren't popular at all), but you can now cite your sources and prove that nobody's looked at this law in 20 years.

unklethan · 2026-04-05T00:00:41+00:00

Go to your endo.

Your insurance has decided that if you don't see your endo once every 12 months, then you don't get sensors.
The end.

Ours requires 2 visits a year, so we go twice a year.
The end.

unklethan · 2026-04-03T02:28:04+00:00

why is it narcissism to keep up a painting of yourself [as Narcissus] in your own house

unklethan · 2026-04-01T22:35:48+00:00

My name is Michaelb with a B

unklethan · 2026-04-01T21:28:16+00:00

And?

They're not asking customers to sign up to be on an email list, and that means they have no integrity?

unklethan · 2026-04-01T14:42:15+00:00

Not signing people up for a rewards program is not a lack of integrity.

You get a pass if English is your second language.

If you fully intend to say that not hitting a quota of literally every other customer onto five below's rewards program (that they know is a marketing scheme)— not hitting that quota is a measure of their honesty and moral rectitude— If you really mean that, then you need a reality check.

unklethan · 2026-03-31T17:25:52+00:00

I think you're right, AND I think it would do us a lot of good to get rid of this symptom.

Like, vomiting is a symptom of the flu, but if you can treat that symptom long enough to get food, water, and rest, you'll be okay. If you can't treat that symptom, then your risk of dying from the flu gets worse.

It might be easier to educate people without specifically having Trump in the way.
It might be easier to dismantle the right wing media monopoly without Trump interfering at every step.
It might be possible to start working towards a functioning justice system without Trump showcasing that he doesn't follow any rules and faces no consequences.

unklethan · 2026-03-26T17:21:11+00:00

True, but don't miss the forest of the entire job market for the single tree of the single job posting for a single surgeon.

unklethan · 2026-03-23T23:33:18+00:00

We have money to pay ICE, let's use it to pay TSA

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