Tell that to Sri Lanka

I could imagine China using policy demands, similar to what the IMF does, still evil. That’s basically what the Belt and Road initiative is.

Can’t get cavities if you ain’t got teeth

It won’t prevent you from needing a deep cleaning (in cases where you actually need it). Deep cleanings are necessary when the inflammation from poor hygiene has caused you to lose bone in your jaw and the pockets underneath the gums have deepened to the point that food is getting stuck in them and hardening (causing more of the inflammation mentioned above). In those cases you need to be numbed to have the hardened food scraped out by a professional.

Unlikely that it would look so clean cut or localized if that were the case. I think it’s either fake or malpractice

To add to this: if there are any complications they will have to return to Mexico to have the same dentist address them. Or go to a different dentist and pay full price to have them fix it again.

And dental care in Mexico is spotty. I’ve seen good work that was done there but I’ve also made a lot of money fixing shitty work that was done there.

Yes these complications are possible but very rare in developed countries, simply because the pain will be so unbearable that a person will seek out care before these complications develop. They’re more of a problem in areas with no access to care at all and can kill people in those situations.

Fun fact: tooth pain used to be listed as a cause of death in the distant past.

Root canals can be very succesful and allow people to keep their tooth for decades longer than they otherwise would. But I often do recommend getting an implant instead if it’s an option for my patients financially. Your experience with the extraction isn’t uncommon, root canaled teeth often fuse to the bone and become a nightmare for both the patient and the dentist to remove. It depends on the tooth and the situation though. Definitely best to have a discussion with your doctor to weigh the options in each particular case.

It depends. Teeth go through stages of pain. First the nerve is dying and highly inflammed. You definitely do not want to be poking around without anesthetic at this stage.

Next the nerve dies and the pain goes away. People often feel a sense of relief at this point because they want to believe the problem just resolved itself.

Some time later an infection forms at the base of the tooth, causing pain because of an increase in pressure in the jaw. This can be excruciatingly painful but the source of pain isn’t the tooth itself (the nerve is dead), it’s the jaw. At this point someone could theoretically do a root canal without anesthetic. It wouldn’t be pleasant but it also wouldn’t cause the insane kind of pain you’re thinking it would cause. That being said, never do your own root canals or have someone who isn’t qualified do one for you. They’re extremely technical and require exquisitely trained fine motor control and having a non-professional do one will cause more problems than they solve.

Source: I do root canals for other people and I would never do one on myself

Dental schools are a good option for general care too. Cheap and surprisingly high quality work, but very slow.

This only works if the source of the pain is an infection. If the pain is from an exposed nerve this will be torture.

Syzygy - a roughly straight-line configuration of three or more celestial bodies in a gravitational system.

Thanks for the new word!

Adoption as a hedge against fiat debasement, primarily. FTX wasn’t a bank BTW, it was a shady exchange that mostly laundered money and stole customers’ funds. It was more analogous to a precious metal dealer like JM Bulion or similar, except run by criminals.

The purpose of crypto isn’t to integrate with the existing system anyway. The purpose is to provide a parallel system that isn’t subject to the kind of manipulation present in the legacy system. Unfortunately, crypto has become completely overrun with scammers and charlatans just looking to take advantage of rubes. The fundamental principals of Bitcoin are still intact in the code and network though, and IMO will win out simply because it is incorruptible and indestructible. The legacy system seems to have decided the same, and is currently adopting a ‘if you can’t beat em, join em’ attitude by pushing for ETF products to offer bitcoin to their customers though more traditional means.

I don’t expect my post to change anyone’s mind, but I would encourage anyone reading to look into why bitcoin has crashed multiple times and come roaring back each time.

Have you checked out Bisq?

How many bubbles pop 3 three times and then proceed to blow up bigger than the last time? I know of exactly zero. Looks more like an adoption curve when expressed logarithmically

I heard it back in '68 but it was about Paul McCartney

Writing may have some benefits over typing but ultimately, what is the purpose of writing? To communicate! The vast majority of written communication these days is done via typing. Basically the only time I have to write anything in cursive is to sign a document, and even that use case is done via typing more often than not nowadays. Cursive is dead and I couldn’t care less.

Not sure why you interpreted my post as accusatory. I agree we’re all along for the ride and there isn’t much we can do. As far as what I’m ‘bringing to the party’, I guess I would say that we should opt out of their broken system as much as possible. Reject blind consumerism and reject the extreme polarization the media is constantly trying to instill in us. Create value for others and store your economic energy in a system they can’t control (Bitcoin). Try to raise awareness in others of the unfairness of the system, and its inevitable doom due to the inherrent requirement of infinite growth with finite resources (the logic of a cancer cell). It’s not much on an individual scale, and probably won’t affect the ultimate outcome, but hopefully we and the people we love can be somewhat insulated from the system as it exists and the chaos that will come when it falls.

Ideally, but the ones with their hands on the controls are the biggest beneficiaries of the current system, so it’s unlikely to change without a revolution or collapse.

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Damn. Definitely got lucky on that.