Vanth

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[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

thefacebook.com isn't exactly a great name.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago

Yep, fully agree. Regionally, what is most popular. Also what is OP most likely to drive? If the family car is manual, better learn that.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, I've found the versions with potassium nitrate to work best for me. And non-whitening too, I think they are a little less abrasive.

What helped the most though is convincing my dentist to give me a fluoride treatment at my checkup every 6 months. Where I live, they stop providing those by default around age 12.

Edit: ope, I just got billed for the fluoride treatment from my recent visit. Reason given: "patient is over age limit for this benefit". Hot trash. Our teeth don't stop needing fluoride at age 12, the insurance companies just don't want to pay for it.

So pay attention to insurance coverage and charging if you decide to try it.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 10 points 1 week ago

Very directly. My company just had layoffs as a direct result of Trump. The company has contracts with the government and Trump cancelled many of them. The Legal team is also trying to figure out if the company will be paid for some work that was already completed.

The tarrifs and threat of tariffs and general chaotic instability Trump is driving around tarrifs is already affecting our supply chain and pricing. We try to make long-term agreements with suppliers instead of doing spot buys, and they are working assumptions of even more tarrifs into their pricing as a buffer.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

And how would one know with 100% certainly a person killed in self-defense despite being labeled a murderer by the applicable legal system?

It assumes an impossible perfect knowledge. Or if not perfect knowledge, some percentage of error, making the murderer of murderers guilty of occasionally murdering an innocent self-defense killer.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's almost like we're barreling towards a recession or something.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Murdering all murderers can't conceivably be "self-defense", making it unlawful.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Murdering murderers makes one a murderer. If one is going to ignore any context and mitigating factors, no, murdering murderers does not result in net good.

E.g., people who have killed in self defense have been tagged as murderers. Murdering them is not at all a good thing (in my moral framework, at least).

E.g. #2, murdering one person for Reasons does not necessarily mean a murderer is going to murder again. So murdering them adds to the overall murder tally without necessarily preventing any additional murders.

There has to be some element of preventing future murders, not just retribution of past murders, for this to even be a debate, IMO. And then there's the bar of simply locking them up being insufficient to prevent them murdering in the future.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 20 points 2 weeks ago

Facist bootlicker says "what"?

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 38 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

Yep. Remind him that Kamala Harris has half Indian ancestry and he'll be ready to colonize it right after Panama, Greenland, and Canada.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have a grocery store close enough I could walk, but it's not walkable because it's a busy road with no sidewalks.

I currently live in just about the least walkable place I have ever lived and I dislike it. Work is less than a mile away, unwalkable because if safety. I can walk to a Dunkin Donuts, a dive bar, a church, a mosque, and that's about it. Distance isn't the factor.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

While racism is probably different in S American countries like Brazil, I don't for one second believe it no longer exists there.

One, because I've met Brazilians and read the news about Brazil and consumed Brazilian media. Two, there is still a strong correlation between race and class, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Brazil, see the section on Persisting Inequality.

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