I was there, Gandalf. IIRC this was because emachines had a type of subscription program for upgrades. They were shit machines, btw. The power supplies were trash and had a non-standard form factor.

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It's pretty good, kind of has that Bob Peak energy.

Sometimes your old location doesn't get the message that you changed registrations. There are legit reasons to live somewhere else but still be registered in your old location (temporary relocation, being a student, etc) so changing addresses doesn't necessarily mean you aren't a valid voter. Meanwhile your new location registers you just fine because you proved residency there. The new location is supposed to notify the old location but, in my experience, it's hit or miss.

You should vote in your new location and destroy the ballot for the old location. It's not a crime unless you vote in both. You will naturally fall off the voter roll for your old location after a set time of missing votes. You can also manually notify them but I think most people don't. I did this once and they acted like it was unusual.

Don't you remember in "The Neutral Zone" when they revived the ancient businessman and he couldn't wait to check his investments until Picard patiently explained to him that, in the future, utopia was achieved by donating a modest percentage of your capital to non-profits and he should seriously consider that (although it was optional)?

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).