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ParticipantNot the same as plaque in your arteries – but inflammation from gum disease is bad for lots of reasons. May even contribute to premature labor and therefore birth defects (not an issue for you, I know). In Brian’s world, failure to brush would necessitate higher health care insurance premiums.
“Arterial plaque is a deposit of fat, cholesterol, calcium and scar tissue that develops in the artery wall. Plaque in the mouth is a bacterial film that builds up on teeth. While the two types of plaque are very different, patients with gum disease do seem to have nearly twice the risk of also having heart disease.”
https://www.sharecare.com/health/vascular-disease/plaque-arteries-same-dental-plaqueYour decision to cut out sugars should help a lot. Fish oil is good for you and is also anti inflammatory.
ParticipantYears ago I had a client that manufactured a popular food brand. It’s been around forever. One day I got a call about a labeling issue. They said that they were making a new product for Costco – wanted a different brand to use with that product. It made me realize that companies aren’t just repackaging the same thing they are selling in other stores and selling it at Costco. They are creating something that can be sold at Costco prices – perhaps not quite the same quality, etc. Obviously this is not true of everything – I’m sure Costco Coke and Von’s Coke are identical. It made me wonder, though.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=spdrun]Make sure the neighbors either love you, or are so afraid of you that they wouldn’t make a peep.[/quote]
They don’t love me any more, because the house is a rental.
They were hoping a “respectable” family would move in. At first, I told them it’s a second home. They were fine with that, and they even asked me to join them in church.Bitter old people are just the worse.[/quote]
I wonder if the renters can (legally) allow an inspection? I could see your neighbors influencing them to do so, if there is the spite you describe. Might also result in them having the right to withhold rent….. I know very little real estate law – s
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]If I move in there and there’s not a bunch of liberal wackos I’m suing.[/quote]
That would be such a fun complaint to write. By the way, are you watching Better Call Saul?
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=livinincali]I thought the liberal left wan’t extreme but apparently writing Trump’s name in chalk now constitutes offensive hate speech
[/quote]Poor attempt at equating the students’ response to Trump’s extremism.
I bet you wouldn’t feef the same about free speech if the writing was “Allah Akbar”The students are maybe too sensitive but extreme they are not.[/quote]
There is a bit of a frightening belief that there is a right way to be and a wrong way to be and that the wrong ones should be silenced. It reminds me a lot of the “four legs good, two legs bad” idea from Animal Farm. Those who believe they are enlightened and therefore disagree with Trump don’t just disagree, they believe that the Trump supporters have no right to their viewpoint and that they, as the enlightened, should decide what gets expressed and what doesn’t. And they don’t question it. I’m sorry, but they are being led around by the nose by the media. I frankly fear the hypersensitive students (and those who lead these students to believe that they know exactly where the moral high ground lies) more than I fear Trump.
ParticipantI do see some of what the article describes. However, I think many kids understand the competition for jobs out there and live in fear of a bad semester (or even a bad grade). As someone said in another thread, tech companies demand a certain grade point average and make no exceptions for students from more challenging schools. That would make me a little grade crazy. Palo Alto’s suicide rate is four or five times the average – and this the subject of an investigation by the CDC. Thttp://www.refinery29.com/2016/02/103433/palo-alto-high-school-suicides-cdc
The pressure on these kids is crazy ( but the idea of needing counseling over a mouse is also a little nuts).
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]Other issues having to with be wealth gap are
Assortive mating
Delayed child bearing among the more educated and wealthier classes, so their kids start off with more advantages.
Better health and higher life expectancy at the top.
All that translate to higher inheritances over generations.[/quote]Higher life expectancy would tend to cause a diminution of resources, wouldn’t it? More years of car payments (or purchases), electricity and food – and generally during the non-earning years.
Assertive mating has always occurred.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]Bring on the computers. Medicine is not a free market. Doctors have captive audience of not well educated patients. They charge accordingly.
Drug companies are shysters. Different pricing for the same drug at different dosage for different applications. Example proscar for prostate vs propecia for hair growth. Ban drug advertizing.[/quote]
Brian – I really do think you got duped into going to the infomercial lunch.
How much insurance do you think you have to have to sell something that is being put on someone’s head for a cosmetic purpose? Let’s say, for example, something destroys the active ingredient somewhere in the manufacturing cycle. Good heavens, someone’s hair doesn’t grow. What a catastrophe.
Now let’s say you sell a separate formulation having the same active ingredient for treating cancer. Let’s say you have the same manufacturing glitch – what is the potential downside? People dying. So you have to have a lot more testing, insurance, etc. This should be pretty easy to understand, even for you.
I have a question. Why do people hate drug companies? The public really doesn’t know what the drug companies charge but it is A LOT less than what is charged at the pharmacy. What they do know is what Walgreens or CVS charges (which can be a lot). But no one hates CVS or Walgreens – they don’t even come up on the radar. Has anyone noticed that the drug companies are slowly disappearing but there is a flipping CVS on every corner? End of rant. I like some drug companies much better than others – but I’ve never understood why drugstores never suffer the same criticism that drug companies do.
Participant[quote=SK in CV][quote=njtosd]Why doesn’t anyone look around for some info? Like here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/fact-checking-the-figures-on-anchor-babies-1441963800
The automatic citizenship seems to be a red herring – but the numbers are interesting, roughly 300,000 babies born to at least one undocumented immigrant each year. There are only 4 million babies (overall) born each year in the US – so it is a relevant discussion.[/quote]
I agree. It might be relevant. Except that the net migration from Mexico has been zero for the last 5 or 6 years. (Thanks Obama) So there may be a steady stream of babies born to at least 1 undocumented parent. But the number of new undocumented is remaining unchanged.[/quote]
I had kind of pooh-poohed the issue of children born to undocumented immigrants prior to looking at that statistic. But when close to 1/10th of the children born have an undocumented parent (if these stats are correct) that’s an issue. We created a business plan that dealt with a child safety device that would be installed in homes. It never occurred to me to take that number into account, but I probably should, because if you are undocumented you’d be less likely to purchase something that would be installed (you’re a renter and don’t want to draw attention, you’re living with a friend, etc.).
ParticipantWhy doesn’t anyone look around for some info? Like here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/fact-checking-the-figures-on-anchor-babies-1441963800
The automatic citizenship seems to be a red herring – but the numbers are interesting, roughly 300,000 babies born to at least one undocumented immigrant each year. There are only 4 million babies (overall) born each year in the US – so it is a relevant discussion.
Participant[quote=joec]
As an immigrant myself, I constantly find many Americans who were born here MUCH MUCH lazier in general since they didn’t have a hard life growing up.
You see it all the time with privileged wealthier kids expecting fancier things just because they “deserve it”…or, I went to work so I need this bag…I really need the newest iphone (I only get free phones)…
[/quote]Maybe immigrants work harder – but the US has, on average, a higher GDP per capita than all but about 8 or 10 countries in the world. We rank even higher if you exclude the oil producing countries. How are we making so much more stuff than these other people if we’re so lazy? I think you are falling victim to the attitude being spoofed here: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/arakawa-group/n10192
Overall, I think it’s a perception bias.Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]it was a lunch among friends that turned to sales pitch.
I wasn’t born in 1964 yet and I don’t know much about Goldwater. But it seems like Republicans have a history of associating with fringe characters. (I will exclude Democrats before the Southern Strategy flipped the South to Republicans).[/quote]
Regardless – the commercial is no more meaningful than one for Pop-Tarts.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=AN]Wow, talk about déjà vu:
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That 1964 Republican sounds so gay! Trump supporters would have him drop to his knees.
Now, let us forever dispense with the notion that “both sides are the same” in their degrees of extremism.[/quote]
Brian – I do now believe that you were duped into going to an infomercial lunch.
You realize that this was a commercial put together by LBJ’s campaign, right? He was an actor of unknown political affiliation paid by the LBJ campaign to tip the scales in favor of LBJ. There were no rules at that time that required the “This is a paid actor” subscript on commercials. The fact that you think this means anything other than that LBJ wanted to win and didn’t like Goldwater is kind of surprising.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]Recently I had lunch with people who wanted to recruit me in some financial pyramid scheme. That’s what they do to everyone they meet. They pretend to be friends before they give you the spiel. You have to attend bullshit seminars that you pay for, etc…
The people succeptible to those sales pitches remind me of Trump supporters. Trump is the star salesman at the top of the pyramid.[/quote]
Brian – you have a persistent belief that people who don’t agree with your politics are stupid. That is a mistake. The most gun toting, fear mongering lunatic that I have ever known (who also referred to his 8 year old son as “gay’) had an engineering degree from Berkeley and a law degree.
By the way – why in the world would you even go to such a lunch? Suggests you are rather susceptible as well . . . .
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