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Oregonian (sometimes obnoxiously so) - Dad - DMD - Progressive - Happiest on back roads looking at birds, flowers, and rocks


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Cosigned man. Half the fucking reason I retreated to being a dentist is that I hated losing when we knew we were right.

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Waiting paid off. This was one of the quickest pre-orders I've jumped in on.

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I wish I had a picture of the Samarkand bus station toilets. They still freak me out 24 years later. Picture this, but way dirtier and piled way past full.

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It's cool to have a Senator to be proud of. Thanks @wyden.senate.gov

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Big handsome orange boy. (and bonus small handsome partially orange boy, a grosbeak fledgling)

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I just finished watching this. Enjoyed the montage of every country waiting around for America to tell them what to do.

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Paprika will do it too.

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And Paprika will extract the recipe from NYT even when their subscription popup crap blocks it out. I've used that trick a lot.

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Think about this when people say the government can't (or won't) reinstate forgiven student loan balances.

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I have a lot of elderly patients, some of whom have dementia. He absolutely does not have dementia. This is just aging.

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I wonder if I'm thinking of the same podcast. Incidentally, I've had to cut back on left podcasts. The amount of right wing talking points they spit up has increased far too much.

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It helps!

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I recently won a gun at a fundraiser. I wasn't planning to assemble it .but maybe...

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...civil conflict to soldiers. I settled on comparative literature heavy on the US civil war. And I just noticed too many modern parallels. 2/2

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It was about the same time for me. But i think it was working for the government, where I saw a lot of the sclerosis and lack of state capacity that I had experienced in the former USSR, that did it for me. Close second was working on counterinsurgency and trying to find ways to communicate... 1/2

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"will" Editors write bad headlines.

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nO dIfFeReNcE bEtWeEn tHe CaNdIdAtEs

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I could theoretically have an easier time emigrating because of my profession. But that uncertainty about potential destinations is why I don't even entertain it.

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This is great. They also cut reimbursement to providers this year. I don't know who will be treating the patients.

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Cleansing the timeline with a marmot

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Lots of good suggestions on this thread. I'm going to sign up to do this one.

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idk claire maybe by loser dems who haven't stopped running their mouths about what's best for the country when they actually have no fucking clue

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We need a second reconstruction. Nothing is achievable without it.

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Fucking SCOTUS has me more stressed than I am about having to go to the hospital for a procedure tomorrow.

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"Expand the court" has gone from radical solution to the most exceptionally moderate option on the table.

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Check out these cute babies my dog alerted me to. She probably wants to cuddle them to a permanent end, so I'm trying to find some ways to keep distance between her and them.

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She's a beautiful, incredibly friendly, and generally well behaved dog. But she sits under the plum tree looking up at this nest like she's Lenny waiting to tend the rabbits.

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If Trump ever called me "very professional," I'd probably ask the FBI to investigate me to figure out what crime I had committed.

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I judged and was the same. The teams I judged hated me.

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One of the dogs was OBSESSED with one of our plum trees today. I hope she doesn't figure out a way to disturb them.

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It's a stupid expensive chain, especially if you build your own pizza.

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Currently playing. Back in my day, TBS meant "The Beastmaster Station." It's a shame the negatives were lost. The restoration is decent but has problems in places.

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As someone who has lived near and had negative feelings toward Grants Pass most of my life, I keep forgetting the awfulness of the decision and enjoying that more people are finally bagging on Grants Pass.

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Hey, if you need some good news, the Criterion sale started at Barnes & Noble today.

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I lived a block into unincorporated Clark county for a while. When Vancouver banned fireworks but the county hadn't, my neighborhood was a war zone for the 4th.

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In fairness, Meyerson sounded like he really wanted us to know his ex-girlfriends were contacting him.

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The think Harold Meyerson seems to really want us to take away from this is that his ex-girlfriends have started talking to him.

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Dan Nexon's avatar Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social
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I didn't watch the debate. I hear it didn't go well. So I just want to remind people that debates don't matter. They never matter. We think they do because we're bad at causal attribution.

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Biden should have done drugs.

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The government suddenly wanting to support health education would be amazing. Sadly, the biggest push for workforce funding is not for doctors. At least in dentistry, it's lucrative to practice in rural areas, but not in public health.

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I'm pretty grim on it in rural areas in general. I advised a patient to take what they can get with appointment availability. Waiting long periods is the norm.

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He always annoyed me, but I'd watch some of his videos. It's wild how quickly he made this turn.

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I just found out that we're back to two year waiting lists for medicaid dental appointments in my county. Oregon is so slowly working on the fix for this that I don't know there's going to be any way to rebuild the provider network.

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Love that one. The Conan Chronicles box set is one of my better 4K purchases.

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I recently added some and will probably start adding more.

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That part of my portfolio might turn green tomorrow!

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I love my Nicks. I don't wear them nearly as much as I used to. But they look great and they're beasts.

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We got a ductless unit in my bedroom last summer. My wife often sets it to 64. It's awesome.

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