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[Eddie @Big_Ed22]

@criles5 She seems like a joy

[Eddie @Big_Ed22]

@joelissocool Adam silver is so fucking bad at his job

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.

One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.

But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.

Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.

The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.

The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.

Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.

Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.

[Eddie @Big_Ed22]

@criles5 He’ll make a great presidential candidate

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

Maduro's biggest mistake was not being friends with Jeff Epstein.

[Daniel Fooks @DanielFooksArt]

Goodbye 2025.

[The_Real_Fly @The_Real_Fly]

An utterly embarrassing first year for Trump, from start to finish. Contemptible and disgraceful.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

Despise my assumption that Trump’s second term would be a disaster (even when supporting him), I’m blown away by how bad it’s been.

Trump has spent the last year humiliating his movement and squandering the greatest opportunity in modern American history for real change.

[Gator | Dentist @theNOBSdentist]

There’s been a lot of chatter on here about dentists being a scam.

So here’s a long winded post from a dentist about how the dentist is a scam.

It will also contain offensive language towards the people who hate dentists.

Basically, if you read this…you will feel offended.

Part I: Diagnostic variability.

The number one complaint that is consistent across most complaints about the dentist is that one says you have 12 cavities, but two days later a different dentist says you have zero. What gives?

Cavities aren’t really a binary thing. It’s kind of like cancer. We all probably have cancerous cells floating in our body, but they get taken care of (it’s not a perfect analogy stay with me).

The cavity causing bacteria decays the tooth over time with acid. Some dentists are much more aggressive at intervening. Sometimes this can be due to the fact that they trained in a low income area and know they’re gonna slug a Mountain Dew as soon as they leave their appointment. Get in there and drill it out before it becomes a root canal or worse.

Then you have people that are more conservative. Usually practice in a more high agency and affluent area. They can provide guidance for proper nutrition to avoid cavity progression.

In these cases, what people consider a “scam” is mostly just a philosophical mismatch. If you want to be treated conservatively, find a conservative dentist.

Then you have crooks. They exist. I had an assistant that worked for an older doc who wouldn’t fully remove all the decay and it would continue to progress even after filling it. Letting it turn into a root canal or extraction. Just evil stuff.

How do you know which category your dentist belongs to? Usually the staff gives it away. If your hygienist is whispering for you to get a second opinion, run and never go back. There’s no bulletproof way to tell you.

Everyone thinks they are the exception. “Oh your dentist screwed you? I knew I didn’t have cavities. What a fucking asshole”

Most of the time the people worried about getting screwed aren’t. It’s the innocent people who are none the wiser.

Evil score: 4/10

Part II: Private equity takeover

Much of the sales pressure you’re seeing in dental offices is downstream from the massive PE roll up happening in the industry.

They are trying to turn every dentist into a CVS. They’re wrong, they just haven’t run out of money yet to learn the lesson.

PE owned offices have morning sales targets (let’s get 4 dentures today, team!). There are bonus structures in place. Lots of pressure to sell sell sell.

Worst part? Many times you can’t even tell the office is owned by PE. They come to a doc, buy them out, and employ them while keeping the clinic name the same.

Deep cleanings are the biggest example of PE destroying the integrity of diagnostic criteria. They treat everyone like a deep cleaning to try and game the insurance companies.

Evil score: 11/10

Part III: Patients are a little retarded.

Dentistry is all about prevention. 90% of dental issues can be prevented with a few small changes. You probably won’t believe this, but most patients would rather get cavities & fix them than prevent them. They will tell us this point blank.

When you challenge them, the say

“my mom had soft teeth, it’s genetic *sips her mocha frappe with 8 pumps of syrup*”

People don’t respect oral health, and they don’t believe that it’s all that important. They bark when you ask them to take their blood pressure. They view dental cleanings like a nail salon appointment.

There is another reason why patients view the dentist as a scam. It’s one of the few places where there is a direct transfer of funds from patient to doctor. In a hospital, the scam becomes so obfuscated that the recipient of your 140,000 ER visit is a faceless soup of executives.

At the dentist, you are looking right at him. You see the picture of his kid in college and think “you’re welcome for the Textbooks Eddie!”

Evil score: 3/10

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

This is Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, defiant in the face of Israeli tanks. Israel destroyed his hospital and cut off the oxygen to patients.

Israel refuses to release him.

Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh should be free

[Eddie @Big_Ed22]

@IcyVert Big toe sprain

[Eddie @Big_Ed22]

@Rothmus Busy running propaganda for the FBI

[Eddie @Big_Ed22]

@joelissocool They let Darnold walk for this 🤮

[Eddie @Big_Ed22]

@Gabepluguez I’m so sorry for your loss Gabe. My he rest in peace

[TB EGO @TomBradyEgo]

When Tom Brady posted this after beating the Chiefs in the 2019 AFC championship game…..
The definition of AURA!

[Eddie @Big_Ed22]

Me

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

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[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Great. I’d like to opt out.

Please send me my money.

[Eddie @Big_Ed22]

@realpeteyb123 That account is definitely run by someone inside of a three letter agency

[Eddie @Big_Ed22]

@SpencerHakimian In Massachusetts the housing market pretty much only goes up, can’t explain it

[Eddie @Big_Ed22]

@JDabknee @dochudson_