Do-it-yourself Hormone Replacement Therapy. For people who get fed up with the byzantine systems setup to discourage and humiliate them and simply take matters into their own hands. What's extra enraging is that, as a cis male, I could walk into my doctor's office tomorrow and come out with a scrip for gender affirming hormone treatment with minimal questions.

Basically no dental work lasts forever. The same goes for replacement joints. You kind of have to judge how long you expect to live and whether you should spring for the 25 year hip or the 15 year hip. It's pretty anxiety inducing.

If you've got fillings, crowns, root canals etc. it's important to keep getting checkups because they can see the beginnings of failure on xray and fix them before they become a real problem. Four to five years is bad, but it could be because of individual conditions. My mom had a root canal fail after 15 years.

Health insurance was originally a product offered directly by hospitals and so never included dental care since, for historic reasons, hospitals never offered it apart from emergency tooth extraction. It's basically a random coincidence of history that we've made a cornerstone of our healthcare structure because, as it turns out, it benefits capitalists to exclude vast categories of care for any pretext.

It's like if insurance covered disorders of the yellow humor but not the black humor.

It's stored in the codpiece.

You gotta' church it up with some hot pepper or garlic or something. Use it like a base and add whatever you have that makes it better. That's the key for box mac, ramen, jar curry, etc.

These people always think that laws are only words and using wordplay you can cast hexes. They think a contract is the words on the paper and not the agreement itself. There's zero awareness of laws, agreements, value, statuses etc. as abstract concepts that are only memorialized on paper.

They don't know or acklnowedge that we've collectively agreed a person, namely a judge, can make judgements about things, and that person isn't going to just give up because you used different wording on a weird, souvenir birth certificate.

Glinet Flint 4, but not available in the usa yet (not sure about elsewhere).

You are supposed to declare untaxed purchases on your state tax filing and pay a "use tax". I don't think many people do.

Someone at the ad agency had to sit down with that slinky photo or a sheet of rubylith and an exacto knife and cut out around all those coils.

It's not fully American until his widow gets denied death benefits.

When I was in junior high school someone gave me a Dinesh D'Souza book, and I actually read it not knowing anything about him. Similar vibes.

They come with it, but it's not very refined without training. They actually need a lot of training to not herd people, especially children. Since humans don't respond the same way as sheep the dog will keep escalating its herding behavior until it bites the human.

I heard an anecdote once of a couple that was camping in a dispersed area with their border collie and the dog ran away. They called and searched and were basically resigned to the loss of their dog, when at dusk they heard a huge commotion. Suddenly their dog drove an entire herd of elk through the campsite.