-be me
-go to new dentist, since my old one retired
-new dentist: "you have three cavities"
-feel bad vibe, go get a second opinion
-"woooah - buddy, you have zero cavities. thank god you came to us. let's just do a cleaning"
-send wife to this savior second dentist
-"you have six cavities"
-wife bails on getting them filled, goes to a different dentist a year later
-"woooah gurl, you have zero cavities. thank god you didn't get them filled"
why is dentistry like this 😭
I have a friend that did this. Bought an industrial park with a near by airport in a small town in Georgia for his growing telecom biz.
He's been there about 6 years now and owns most of the town now.
Runs the movie theater and let's his kid pick out what movies to play, owns a couple restaurants, bed and breakfasts and clothing shops.
I went up there a couple times and the town loves him. He's like a celebrity, lol.
Inside your smartphone, there's one small screw.
In Tokyo's Ota Ward, a tiny factory with just three employees can machine it to a precision of 0.001 millimeters — one-tenth the thickness of a human hair.
NASA places orders with them.
Toyota executives come bowing their heads to request their work.
99.7% of Japanese companies are small and medium-sized enterprises.
The true strength of this country isn't in skyscrapers or famous brands.
It's in the oil-stained hands of craftsmen like these.
Lost a $3k jewelry order last week.
Got the "Delivered" confirmation. Went to check. Nothing there.
Pulled the camera footage. Mailman sets it on top of the mailbox, takes the photo, looks both ways… and takes it back with him.
Called USPS. Two minute wait I'll give them that. Filed the investigation. Local office calls me, very confident: we spoke to the carrier, package was delivered.
I didn't mention the footage. Not yet.
"Tell him I can send the video."
Two hours later, package at the door.
we keep seeing it!
labor market tests are failing because companies can't hide jobs from qualified US applicants any more!
apply apply apply to every job you are MINIMALLY qualified for! even one applicant means they cannot permanently replace a US worker with an immigrant
@DarthhPotato My wife is really good at making up lyrics on the fly to the intro. If it’s our first episode she will make jokes about the characters, if we’re binging she will usually make jokes about the previous episode.
In light of Amazon's recent terrible decision to destroy the new Stargate series, with original writers and cast, which was made into 17 seasons and is considered one of the great sci-fi TV shows of all time. Here is the amazing Stargate SG-1 Intro Sequence.
I'll never skip this intro. I used to hum it as a kid. #amazon #stargate
Its so refreshing watching a Modern TV (aka Spider-Noir) show that actually has a sense of Humor. I mean a real sense of Humor, not we made a super dry joke that nobody in real world would remotely laugh at ("About seven hours"). Plus the characters are actually fucking likable with personalities and not as dull as fucking dish water.
About a week ago I attempted to roll down my window at the Chick Fil A drive through, but nothing happened. I opened the car door slightly and explained to the smiling teenager standing there with an iPad that my window button wasn’t working. I tried to restart the car but all I got was a pathetic clicking noise. Instantly it hit me that my car had literally just died in the chick fil a drive through. During the dinner rush. Embarrassed as hell I apologized profusely to the kid, who immediately assured me that this happens all the time and not to worry about it. I was about 45 minutes from home, 7 months pregnant, didn’t have jumper cables with me, and my husband was out of town. He immediately got his manager who got me a chair and a huge glass of ice water, and told me I could wait inside if I wanted to (it was hot as hell) while they figured it out. 3 or 4 coworkers come out to jump my car and doubled up the drive through line on the other side. People were honking for the first 5 mins but they were able to get the line moving quickly and jumped my car so that I was able to move it in about 20 minutes. After this the manager comped me a free meal, anything I wanted. I couldn’t help but wonder how differently this would have played out if I had decided to stop at McDonalds
@allbesaved@JTAlexander Yeah if your property affects me or my property you can’t do it without seeking permission first. Them releasing millions of mosquitoes will have some effect on the surrounding properties.
I ordered one pancake in America. The waitress wrote it down and said, "one short stack."
Short. I am a small and humble man. A short stack sounded perfect for me. I waited with a calm heart.
She returned carrying three pancakes, each the size of my face, stacked into a tower, with a block of butter on top sliding down the sides like slow lava.
This was the short one. I did not dare ask what the tall one looked like. Some knowledge a man is not ready for.
I ate for forty minutes. I was not full. I was afraid. The tower did not shrink. I am fairly sure it was growing back faster than I could eat it.
I had to surrender. I left half. In Japan, leaving food is a deep shame. So I leaned in close and apologized to the pancakes directly, in a low voice, one by one.
The waitress asked if I wanted a box. I did not know food could be taken into custody. I declined. I did not want it following me home.
In America, is the short stack truly the small one?
I need time to prepare my spirit before I ever face the tall one.
CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.
One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.
Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.
You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.
The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.
And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.
To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.
You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.
Enjoy.
To one religious extremist in my inbox.
You keep sending me graphic images and saying things like:
“Did you forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki?”
“You’re just America’s bitch.”
No.
I didn’t forget.
No Japanese person forgets Hiroshima.
No Japanese person forgets Nagasaki.
But I’m not going to look at some American kid, student, tourist, or friend today and hate them for what happened 80 years ago.
That’s not strength.
That’s just letting the past rot inside you.
Yes, Japan’s postwar occupation is complicated.
Yes, there are things people still argue about.
But Japan rebuilt.
Japan moved forward.
And part of that history includes its relationship with America.
Remembering the past does not mean living as a prisoner of hatred.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not props for your rage.
They are Japanese memories.
Japanese pain.
And a warning to the world.
I will not let you use our dead to feed your hate.
When all of the baby boomers die, and we are approaching boomer death peak velocity, the amount of houses that will hit the market will crash it, making that house worthless anyway. So a smart boomer would be selling now, downsizing, and leaving money to his descendants.