“You seem deeply upset”

nope I forget you’re here until you comment again and I have to correct you all over again.

correcting people is fun for me, so this isn’t particularly upsetting.

“your opinion”

not my opinion, dozens of accurate numbers from two articles, one of those many numbers in one of those articles you have picked out to focus on.

One of the articles overestimated a budget by 100 million, four instead of three, that’s not going to bother me too much.

you seem deeply upset by one source’s overestimate.

“that number seems preposterous…a totally bogus number detached from reality…”

yeah who the heck could write four instead of three?

how could anyone make that mistake? they must be nuts!

adding one number in hundreds of millions of dollars of asset valuation?

how could that even happen?

guess we’ll never know…

“giving some sort of response…”

you keep whining about receiving a response (desperate), but you still haven’t asked a question.

do you know how responses work? (that was a question. see the curly thing at the end? there’s another!)

go ahead, check your comment. not a single question, you’re just rehashing you’re earlier mistakes I have to correct all over again.

which is fun.

I’m down.

yeah, anecdotally people use all kinds of oils, mct oil among them, coconut oil is just the most popular. I think people like it because it’s so easy to get organic, one ingredient coconut oil for cheap

aren’t you tired of being a liberal?

don’t you want to be a liberal who doesn’t understand the point of politics?

free your mind from pesky knowledge and political context, all it does is get in the way of forming autocratic groups and exploiting the people around you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv-A6rSUM8c

this video convinced me that oil pulling is antimicrobial even though the professed conclusion of the video, as espoused by the dentist working with the YouTuber, is that oil pulling doesn’t work, even though there are less bacteria present after the oil pulling.

before oil pulling: every squiggly purple line inside the empty spaces is a separate spirochete.

I counted well over a dozen spirochetes wiggling around before the oil pulling.

it zooms in on one little corridor near the end of the “before” microscope analysis, and in just that one little corridor, you can plainly see half a dozen spirochetes wiggling together.

after The oil pulling:

there’s very clearly only one in the entire slide, and the dentist mentions this specifically, but says since there are any spirochetes at all, there’s no difference before and after.

after the oil pulling with that on screen, the dentist specifically says “there’s no such thing as one mouse” while examining the patient after oil pulling, so you know he’s looking at one spirochete on screen, and you can also plainly only see one on screen, while before the oil pulling, the dentist videos are full of spirochetes, zoomed in or out.

by what you can count on screen before and after, there are more than 90% fewer bacteria found after the oil pulling, so it seems like oil pulling works for gum disease, at least for this patient.

I’d love to see more studies on this.

or a follow-up to that video.

you don’t have to use a lot, like 1 tbsp is fine, and then you just swish it around.

it’ll be pretty difficult to keep tge oil inside your mouth while brushing, but I don’t see why you can’t try it out, who knows?

since there aren’t a lot of scientific studies, there aren’t a lot of dogmatically proven methods, so you could be the first!

in fact, if it works, tell me, because I am going to start oil pulling again because I was very encouraged by the results and after the first couple times it doesn’t even feel that gross, it’s just a routine thing like brushing your teeth in the morning.

and I was kind of lacking days ago about it, so I think I’m going to do mornings and evenings and just try and really see a difference.

I couldn’t answer about the coconut milk. specifically, you mean the thick opaque milk, right not coconut water?

it’s specifically swishing around the coconut oil for 5 to 15 minutes everyday that people say leaches out the yellow color, but I haven’t heard anything about the cumulative effect of long-term coconut milk drinking.

I’ll add that most YouTube dentists say that oil pulling doesn’t work, but they all specifically mention that it can’t work because there are not enough scientific studies on it, which isn’t a great argument.

and after meeting a few people who have done it and seeing their teeth gradually whiten to movie-star white, plus my own very debatable one shade whiter after a couple months, I’m convinced that it does work on some level.

especially because the people I know are hippies who would never go to the dentist or whatever, so I doubt they got their teeth whitened artificially.

for it, it’s not a requirement.

oil pulling is specifically for people who want to whiten their teeth, not for everybody who drinks coffee.

I have been convinced oil pulling, swishing coconut oil around in your mouth(there’s a few recommended oils) works by people in the real world I know who have done it and it worked for them, although I did it for 3 months and I believe I noticed a small difference but I didn’t keep it up.

as far as regularly consumed food or drinks, no, not that I know of.

“I’m honestly curious what point you think I’m responding to…”

are you? you don’t sound very curious. you haven’t asked a single question.

“You did actually use grossly inaccurate financial data”

your make-believe is showing.

you seem to be extrapolating far-off tangential after-effects of a vague dystopian future not based on the current state of travel.

yes, maybe someday everything will be worse.

but then, maybe someday everything will be better.

as for right now, travel is objectively easier for everybody than it has been in a very long time, maybe ever.

We can start with that.

yup

overall, it seems to be getting easier to travel, with longer-term visas being offered and most visas offered through online applications.

there are more routes for legal permanent residency in countries as well these days, although i prefer itinerance.

I think you’re talking about permanent residency, which is inherently more bother than living somewhere else or traveling full-time.

“Why” was a typo, fixed it.

Don Quixote is a famous literary figure who creates monsters out of his own failing perception and then attacks them.

he’s an analogy of you fabricating points I haven’t made so you have something to struggle against.

leaving my home country for the first time.

all the “immutable facts of life” are a plane ticket way from becoming weird rituals or disagreeable foreign affairs.

Why you really like make believe huh?

pretending I said things I didn’t and then arguing against them isn’t the gotcha you apparently think it is Don Quixote.

but if it makes you feel better, float your own boat.

“a two year old opinion piece on it,”

it’s the first article that popped up with reliable numbers, but there are plenty of articles criticizing the amassed wealth of wmf while they’re asking for money every year.

unsurprisingly, the WMF reports that WMF are spending their money responsibly and are barely managing to sustain themselves, while every journalist that looks into it confirms that WMF have plenty of money and have not needed to do these fundraising drives for years, and will not have to for decades.

$100 million is purely cash on hand, it doesn’t take into account any otger WMF assets.

it’s nice that you’re excited about Wikipedia, and it can be a useful resource, but these are not contentious facts.

Wikipedia has plenty of money, they spend it irresponsibly, and every year they are taking and millions of dollars that they add to that stack.

important to note, Wikipedias value to the end users is contributed two and maintained by unpaid volunteers.

here’s another good article;

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-foundation-donate.html

I made sure it was also 2 years old because I think it’s funny your ageist about facts.

I’ll talk to you in 50 years and we can settle this.

I still dual boot with Windows for gaming, so I can’t comment on the next gaming as much, but I will say that LTSC is everything that it seems to be (or not be).

Windows without any bullshit, I used it for years.

I use windows solely for ease of gaming so I haven’t bothered to replace the stock, but if you do keep using Windows, LTSC is definitely the way to go.

as far as the articles going around, Linux is catching up but is not yet as effortless less as Windows for gaming specifically.

nope

yup, I have a lot of time so I read a lot.

If you don’t have a lot of time, don’t sweat it.

“Dragonball is based on the old Chinese myth of Journey to the West”

I never made the connection between goku’s peculiarities and journey to the West, that’s interesting, thanks.