CarbonConscious [he/him]

It sure does seem to be! Neato!

Some dude invented them years ago, basically a set of rings that you load a disposable piece of floss onto, making it way more comfortable but using way less plastic per use than floss picks.

I don’t remember the exact details, but there was some kind of shenanigans where the big players in the existing dental products industry basically strong armed his suppliers out of working with him and he had to fold under a huge pile of debt or something.

If I recall it also had something to do with the regulations around the sanitary nature of floss, and how the stuff on the shelf now has basically none at all - it’s just treated like regular string all the way through the production and distribution channels, and is never really kept particularly isolated from contaminants, but the ring refills were actually sanitary instead.

I’m still sad about the floss rings guy getting merc’d out of the industry. Those would’ve been a big game changer for a lot of people.

Another good tip with electric brushes is to stop moving them around so much - just slowly move it across your teeth and let the electric motion do the actual scrubbing work.

Seriously. The other one I see I lot is “like you are brushing the skin of a tomato”.

Like the pressure I would be applying there is zero, because I am definitely not brushing any damn tomatos with my toothbrush.

What I’m saying is, let’s all do radical leftist (facial) revolutions together in solidarity!

In a similar situation. I can see it coming though, because it turns out I have a very unattractive neck line. So for now it’s stache, clean cheeks, and neck beard. Not ideal but it kinda gives me a Muskateers vibe, which I think is cool.

I’ve always had at least a goatee, but I yearn for the stache only life.

Also want to cut my long hair for something shorter and easier to wear in the heat, but that notion has proven extremely unpopular with the people in my life, so it’s been on hold for a while.

Totally agreed, that’s all I’m getting at. I don’t think they’re gonna win, I just think they’re gonna try real hard and leave a lot of people dead (and a small group of people very rich) like usual.

No not control it, certainly not. I get the feeling they might think they could though, and mobilize towards that goal. I don’t necessarily think they’d win, but I just think they’re prepared to launch head-long into it and it’ll make a huge mess for everyone no matter how it really goes.

And yeah as soon as anyone hits the red button, the entire calculus changes (and also likely the planetary ecosystem along with it).

Yeah especially if this info about the US knowing about the attack and intentionally playing dumb as a distraction bears out, then it’s possible they’ve already drawn their line in the sand and there’s no going back now. But who knows, TACO amirite??

Likely. I think we’ll see a lot of drones and big missiles and carpet bombing type stuff before any boots hit the ground, if even at all.

I don’t disagree; it certainly wouldn’t be a walk in the park the way Desert Storm was portrayed as, but all the middle east excursions so far have felt pretty phoned-in and half-assed, like they never really had a good enough reason to full-on invade anywhere, just station a bunch of troops to conduct police actions and target the specific and relatively small groups (while naturally casualty-ing huge numbers of otherwise un-involved civilians, of course).

Those felt like they were invasions sold as being based on the pretext that there were some dangerous people in an otherwise neutral country that had to be rooted out, or the state apparatus as a potential threat with enhanced capabilities (chemical weapons, well-organized individual bombers etc).

I worry that the actual state launching actual clear-as-day attacks (justified though they may be in reality) would be such a juicy pretext to not just send in some troops to occupy, but to really start crazy bombing at a new scale we haven’t seen yet. If they consider this a full WW2 level mobilization, I’m not saying they would win, but at least the conflict is going to be way bigger and more intense and direct than anything we’ve seen in a long time outside of the eastern bloc.

Again, it would be a huge shit-show no doubt, and very possibly unsuccessful, but I think the cost to human life will be on an entirely different scale than we are used to in the last 30-odd years (which has already been catastrophic, obviously).

And of course on top of all that, just about everybody involved is nuclear equipped, so anyone that’s feels they are losing too badly could always just…

I mean good on em and all, but this does feel like it would disrupt commerce enough for the empire to make up an excuse to roll in. If they really haven’t become fully equipped* yet, it seems like it would likely go pretty bad for everyone involved.

• meaning if Iran isn’t actually nuclear-equipped by the time shit hits the fan, their leverage is so much weaker that some might see an initial excursion as testing the waters to really drop the hammer

I wonder more and more every day if it isn’t just the “unofficially-nuclear-equipped rogue state that has made it clear they will take everyone else down with them” thing.

Shit, they probably have the footage for real, they only just need to scrub off the IOF logos on the killers.

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I got tricked into buying the software version of the one about colonial era ships, because the person working the book fair told me you could launch cannon balls and blow up the dude in the toilet, like it was some kinda wacky action game, and I was a wacky little action dude at the time so of course I had to check that out.

Turns out it was closer to Encarta but without the Mind Maze part. The guy blowing up was a tiny little animation, and you could not, in fact, fire the cannon at all. Something something disappointment immeasurable etc.

In time, you will find, these things take up space inside your mind…

where you, could be keeping honest thoughts of the sea!

To be fair, it was a much more effective electoral strategy than the follow-up:

we’re not going to do shit if you vote for us!

actually, doing nothing would be way better than what we were planning, not to mention way harder to buck our lobbyists that want us to do the terrible things, so we’re going to fuck things up pretty bad if you vote for us. but the other guy might fuck things up slightly more, and it’s your fault either way! but we won’t do anything to stop it, because that’s too hard/we don’t care, good luck fuck you!"