– Unable to eat properly, your health and physical well-being suffers significantly and this shortens your life over time. If youâre like me and have weak jaws, youâll likely not be able to chew well; youâre going to be swallowing lumps of things, which is uncomfortable, gross, and unhealthy.
-Eating can be very painful, to the point youâre going to be eating soup, mashed potatoes, or cream of wheat for at least a few meals.
-Self-confidence tanks, and so can your mental health; this has really f*cked me up, leaving me intensely depressed to the point where Iâve pretty much cried for entire days, not to mention trying to adjust to this nightmare that has become my life.
– Dentures generally need to be pasted into your mouth (the paste doesnât usually last that well, and isnât a fix-all. It also tastes pretty foul.) and tend to cause anything from mild discomfort to bad pain.
– You donât get to eat anything sticky, chewy, etc.; no more toffee, gum, unprocessed meat, salad (yes, even things like lettuce and spinach are VERY difficult to eat. And, forget fresh fruit and veggies. Too firm,
– No biting with your front teeth. Â
– There is no real âresting placeâ for your lower jaw – itâs uncomfortable and even painful to have your gums pressed together, and letting your lower jaw relax and âhangâ is almost as bad.
– Have you heard someone speak without teeth? Youâre liable to repeat things A LOT and feel self-conscious and stupid.
-People will shun you, or give you repulsed looks.
-Try looking for work when you look like I do, all gums and no teeth. No way youâre getting an interview or a call back.
Not to mention that your JAWS SHRINK and make it even more difficult to eat/speak and are prone to FRACTURING.
Thatâs why I am on my knees, begging and praying for the donations I so desperately need to replace my teeth with implants.
Implants act like REAL TEETH and I could eat/speak as before and my jaws would stop shrinking. But, I live in poverty and am disabled. I canât afford it alone. Iâm scared this is going to be the end of me.
Itâs totally cool how the official White House twitter is pushing white nationalist talking points.
Yâall, the Resident Dump administration didnât stop there – the white house also posted an article dedicated to this specific white nationalist talking point on their fucking website.
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Death turned up in the Discworld books in order to make a joke work. That was in The Colour of Magic. Suddenly he was and, twenty-one years later, still is one of the most popular characters in the series. People ask me to forge his signature in books. Sometimes I get nice letters from people who know theyâre due to meet him soon, and hope Iâve got him right. Those are the kind of letters that cause me to stare at the wall for some time.
Terry Pratchett, regarding the popularity of Death in the Discworld series. (The Art of Discworld with Paul Kidby)
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So today, my cdnpoli twitter blog (@allthecdnpoli), actually got a private message from the CRTCâs twitter account. The CRTC is Canadaâs telecommunications regulator, similar to the USâs FCC (though structured differently).
They noticed that a relatively large amount of responses to the CRTC came from traffic generated by this blog.
If you previously reblogged that post with instructions on how to submit comments to the CRTC, can you delete it, as it has wrong information?
The intention behind that post was good, but it was directed to the wrong proposal at the CRTC. The proposal that the vast majority of people sent their net neutrality remarks to was actually about âthe license renewals of English language television private ownership groupsâ. People got this mixed up because the proposal was by Bell and Rogers (and Corus).
The CRTC have told me that they have forwarded all these responses from tumblr to the correct proposal, and so if you want to let the CRTC know what your thoughts are about Bellâs proposal you can comment at the link below:
Concerning Net neutrality, the CRTC has supported and reinforced net neutrality in Canada. In fact, the CRTCâs net neutrality framework was developed through a series of decisions confirming that service providers should treat data traffic equally (regardless of the content) to foster consumer choice, innovation and the free exchanges of ideas.Â
This gives me some hope that if Bell does propose what they are apparently proposing that theyâll be shot down, but lets all keep focus on this until its clear that its not a danger to net neutrality.
Iâd appreciate if you could share this post, to clear up some of the misinformation going around tumblr.
Thank you.
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iâm always torn about nature docs bc like ⌠theyre fun! I learn things! i like them! but also, i am very aware that like⌠theyre really 85% to entertain and 15% to educate, if that. and i dont mind SO much when its⌠you know. the narrator making it seem like the lioness and her cubs, the antelope, etc, are characters in a story. when they make the doc have a narrative arc. because youre presenting this to PEOPLE, and people find that more interesting/easier to absorb, because of how our brains work! which is cool. what i feel uncomfortable about is when evolution is characterized as a force
like yes you can say that itâs a stylistic choice; evolution is just one more character in this TRAGICOMEDY THAT IS LIVING CREATURES or whatever. but when you are saying things like, you know, âbut evolution has given these creatures a new weapon: teethâ and you keep consistently characterizing it this way, like evolution is a force which grants life forms Adaptations, like itâs got something specific in mind, some accomplishment â heck, even when you say âbut this creature is clever â itâs evolved [adaptation] to deal with [phenomenon]!!â i think that⌠feeds something that is not great about our society
i think probably the majority of people who casually believe evolution exists conceptualize it as a force. most people unthinkingly think of it as something thats âweeding outâ âdefectiveâ individuals/species/etc. i think thats a big problem. like. a HUGE problem.  i think if people cannot be made to understand just how fucking arbitrary and random and literally unpredictable this shit is⌠i just think it hurts us. as⌠people? i think even if people are not using the language of social darwinism, if they are positioning certain species or traits or individuals as âmore evolvedâ etc. that buys into so much⌠awful shit⌠i dont even want to say âableismâ or âeugenicsâ because yes those things obviously but i feel like itâs bigger than that i feel like its about how we conceptualize ourselves and the world at the most basic level
accepting that there is no perfect model of what a living organism SHOULD be like, no goal, no endpoint, no traits that make a species better than another species⌠means accepting that there is no such thing as defectiveness. being defective is being imperfect, flawed, malfunctioning â not being what the thing is SUPPOSED to be like. if we look at evolution as what it is itâs easy to see that there IS no âsupposed toâ. when most people think about evolution, i think, we are thinking really about some kind of glorified Science version of intelligent design. & i think thats really harmful. like way more harmful than people who are aware that theyre talking about intelligent design! when you think you are being The Most Logic and Science and This Is How It Works In Nature Therefore It Is Best⌠im not sure im describing this right because i am having a hard time communicating how viscerally terrifying i think this attitude is
so much is arbitrary. nature isnt a force. evolution isnt a force. adaptations arent weapons in an arsenal. this is not an active thing. itâs a passive thing. and more importantly there is no moral value in an organism having certain adaptations or not. a species going extinct bc their predators have evolved some trait that makes them impossible to escape isnât one species âwinningâ, the species which has gone extinct has not âlostâ, evolution and nature are not your fucking fantasy football league
everything, everything, EVERYTHING is arbitrary & i know that can be a scary concept to face but i actually take a lot of comfort in it. i am just an organism. whether or not i manage to pass on my genes is not a triumph or a failure, itâs just an event. events happen all the time to every living thing that exists. there is not a value attached to them. they just are.
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