What are some alternatives to the oral-b electric tooth brush? (piefed.zip)

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[-] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

believe it or not, vast majority of people already do not know how to properly do that and dentists do not teach us

Well thats another thing, that I think is the problem. It seems to me that people these days expect others to teach their kids how to do things. I don't think dentists should be the ones who teach people how to brush their teeth, it should be the parents. I read recently that kindergarten kids not being potty trained by their parents is becoming a massive problem, I guess the parents expect that to happen in the kindergarten as well. Same goes with discipline and basic behavior. Apparently school teachers have noticed a major change in kids' ability to behave properly. This constant coddling and "theres an app for that" is going to ruin everything.

My backup is just actually do things intentionally. I don’t care if It is slow, I have time, why would I rush things. I guess I am trying to enjoy the journey rather than focus on goals and stuff.

This is my only hope. I don't know if its just the bubble I'm in, but I've noticed more and more people going back to doing things the "old" or "hard" way. Most of it is people ditching social media, reddit and whatnot and replacing them with IRC, Lemmy etc. Then theres also the whole old internet revival thing, neocities.org, kagi.com/smallweb/ etc. But theres also a whole bunch of people who are moving away from the city and live more frugally.

Obviously its a small fraction of the population, but who knows, maybe it will grow into something bigger. At the moment I think theres going to be a split, at least online, with people who refuse to use the shiny new software and services and will stick to IRC and other, simpler things.

This turned into a ramble, I'll stop while its still coherent on some level

[-] dieTasse@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

I agree that parents should be teaching a lots of things, but if they don't know how to do things, there should be some instances where to amend that. In case of teeth cleaning I think dentists as experts on dental hygiene should be the good resource. Lots of dentists is even overloaded, at least in Czechia, so I would guess its in their interest to teach people how to care about teeth. The story about potty training is crazy. Its like the other day I have been recommended a youtube video that showed stuff like how to clean toielt, bathtube or kitchen, and I was absolutely stunned how many commenters were thanking the guy for showing them how to do that. I mean good that he did, but I would have never thought there is so many people that do not know how to clean after themselves...

Yeah, I have stumbled upon the old internet movement quite recently and I really love it, I want to jump on that bandwagon as well. Good old days 😀 I feel like grandpa. I am curious where we are heading with all the sh..t thats happening.

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