If you floss regularly your gums won’t bleed, source: me. My gums never bleed at the dentist, but they used to when I sucked more at dental self-care.

For the X-ray example, think about it this way: the doctor is like a bartender. One drink isn’t going to hurt you. The bartender can definitely serve you one drink. But if the bartender had to drink a part of a drink every time they served someone, that would become pretty dangerous for them indeed.

Describing a phenomenon is different from endorsing it.

Mamdani signed an executive order (printed in comic sans) eliminating bed time for New Yorkers so that they can watch the Knicks in the playoffs.

Not to be contrarian, just running a Matrix server is awful, and Matrix has been plagued with security issues in the past, including basic crypto gaps due to lack of domain understanding in the implementation, which is shocking for what is touted as a security first project.

Moreover, I don’t know of any acceptable alternatives.

I’m generally one of the first people on any FOSS bandwagon. I’ve been using Linux as my daily driver since 1999. Matrix is not simply “not as good” or “not up to feature parity” as alternatives. It is in my opinion unacceptably bad and the project leads seem to be actively hostile to efforts to make it better.

Every simple numeric metric you use to measure a programmers productivity will be gamed and defeated. This was a lesson learned in the fucking 90s. Amazon should know better.

Am I going crazy? One toothbrush for every person. I’m a monogamuggle, and I don’t even share a toothbrush regularly with my wife. If you insist on the counter being tidy, put them in a drawer. Also prevents aerosolized fecal matter from getting on the toothbrush head.