SoleInvictus

Ugh, blockchain. During the pandemic, I had absolutely no work to do so my boss asked me to make a presentation for him to present on the merits of blockchain. When my response was that it's overhyped bullshit, he was not thrilled.

I made the requested presentation but it made me feel dirty, so I alt texted every slide's graphics to include the counterpoint to the bullshit benefits being presented.

I have done this. Shitty hatchback was the best teenage car.

Edit: they're in Australia. They DID block the driver's side! Fucking hero right there.

Don't kink shame. Some people prefer to raw dog the Internet.

Your comment made my teeth hurt. IYKYK.

I'm guessing your wife might be a redhead and/or has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome as both groups are resistant to certain types of local anesthesia. I have the latter and novocaine does next to nothing for me without using massive volumes.

Assuming I'm vaguely correct, if she hasn't done so already, consider trying articaine, bupivacaine, or mepivacaine. I explained my situation to my dentist and he allowed me to trial each before jumping into dental work. Articaine was the first we tried and it works great for me.

Here's the article I provided as evidence I'm not just crazy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6834718/

Definitely not. If you had enough volume to fill a spoon, around 15 mL, it would be 30-60 times greater than your typical injected vaccine. Some individuals might have a slight immune reaction (think upset stomach, body aches, etc) to its viral fraction, but those people would likely have a similar reaction to the same vaccine being injected. Many people wouldn't notice anything at all.

Wait, a CEO that's a total sack of shit? I don't believe it!

/s

Tl;dr: I was genuinely happy until you showed yourself to be a petty, intellectually dishonest person.

I was genuinely happy you asked. I hoped we'd have an interesting conversation. What I received in response was the type of comment I haven't seen as much of since leaving Reddit: unnecessarily antagonistic and full of bad arguments, seemingly for no other purpose than to state "nuh uh, you're wrong!".

You start by telling me that the intended meaning of my words wasn't what I explained, followed up by how the meaning you instead fabricated for me is wrong. Now you're calling my explaining my original meaning further, even before you generated this artificial contention, "moving goal posts". That doesn't hold up under even the merest scrutiny. Again, you're just looking to score metaphorical points, but you don't do it by the merit of your own arguments - you instead pick apart my statements, but dishonestly. It's bizarre.

Then you follow up with several outlandish responses that only make sense if you ignored my previous comment. My comment was about how things have been massively worse on earth before and life has pulled through, with stated logic and references. Your response? "Well, life can't survive beyond certain bounds and the moon is further away, and the conditions from which life arose may not happen again". Pretty clear you didn't even bother to understand my comment before your rebuttal. Again, just looking to dunk.

Plus you downvoted me for a response I took quite a bit of time to write, all in good faith. So yeah, to the block list you go.

I pretty distinctly defined when I meant by saying "fine" in my follow-up comment. If you want to pretend I meant something different so you can "prove me wrong", that's "fine" (define that however suits you.).

That, along with the rest of your comment, suggests you're just more interested in feeling you're right at all costs instead of actually discussing the topic, so I'm out.

Edit: I had to look - of course you downvoted me. LOL.

Playing this game anew would be an upside to early onset dementia for me.

Totally. You can't appease narcissists into not being narcissists. I wish we'd learn that as a species.

--Tangentially related rant (I promise I'm not high) alert--

Now that I'm thinking about it, at least in the United States, the educational system is bizarre. We teach our children information that's useful for making them into workers, but not necessarily functional, fulfilled people. Why don't we teach them methods for handling social situations? How to deal with narcissists, compulsive liars, and manipulators? For some reason that's left for the parents to do, and as a whole they've been doing a piss poor job for decades.