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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • I thought about this recently. I live in Australia. For the first 30 years of my life I didn’t look after my teeth properly.

    Now I’ve got a really good oral hygiene routine with flossing, interdental brushes and a good quality mouthwash. I went through my routine one night last week and thought about how much better my gums were and how few problems I had with my oral health. I used to have frequent ulcers and permanent gingivitis.

    As great as I felt knowing I’ve gotten on top of it, I feel terrible. I’m fortunate in that I can afford to spend 20 dollars a month on interdental brushes. Another 5 on floss. Another 10 on mouthwash. The $200 electric toothbrush that makes it easy to get a really solid clean.

    Like what the fk man? Taking care of my teeth is not only going to have massive positive health impacts on me, but there would be huge cost savings for the government who only seem to intervene and pay up when it’s too late and you need hospital care for whatever eventuality comes.

    A significant portion of the country skip meals in order to pay rent. They certainly don’t have that kind of money to spend to maintain there teeth, as well as any kids in the house.

    Oral hygiene products should really be subsidised for low income families.


  • Here ya go. I spent 7 years in the military as a dog handler with two different malinois during that time.

    I then got out and worked for a government agency investigating dog attacks.

    One of the first jobs across my desk was… an American Bully XL. Almost killed another dog and sent a male person to the hospital. The dog was from an upper class family and was around little children daily.

    We had 7 dogs that we had confiscated, pending court hearing regarding attacks.

    7 out of 7 dogs were bully breed dogs.

    In my experience I will not trust a bully breed dog in any circumstance. I’d take a malinois any day over a bully breed dog.






  • Ooooh.

    I’ve just spent the day installing Synology DSM on a passively cooled micro pc with a Pentium N3510 and 4gb of ram.

    I haven’t had a chance to test performance yet. Certainly not 4K capable but that’s okay. If it can handle 1080p I’ll mark it a win.

    Sonarr and Radarr in dockers on DSM.

    12tb USB attached HDD.

    I’m not sure if this will be a permanent setup. Will depend what the 1080p performance is like.

    But I had the box sitting in the cupboard and I’m really keen to cut ties with streaming services