...and, i'm going to start brushing with the prevident (and then swallowing it), for now, until i get better bounds. the xanthan gum seems fine.

so, i'm going to put reading up on remineralization tactics off until i get the cleaning done and take a look at it. it seems clear to me that this isn't an available treatment, so i'll need to decide if i think i can wait for an unproven technology or if i should act now to save the tooth.

i still only see one clear cavity, although there are a few i'll need to clean to tell with. they're all root caries.

that means i should be back to what i was doing and hopefully get a post up tonight.

i'm going to hold them to that.

this is what i expected from the first three - and am kind of baffled i didn't get.

so, i have an appointment with dentist #4 next week.

they're advertising "entrance exam + cleaning" on their website. so, they'd better actually do it.

it's a fun fact, though - canada has never had a boomer prime minister. or, not a true one, anyways. the closest thing was harper, but he's in a grey zone.

diefenbaker - 1895 (dead)

pearson - 1897 (dead)

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trudeau - 1919 (dead)

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clark - 1939

turner - 1929 (dead)

mulroney - 1939

campbell - 1947 <-----unelected caretaker that took over when mulroney resigned. doesn't really count.

chretien - 1934

martin - 1938

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harper - 1959   <------- is that a boomer? just barely. it's cusp-y. gen jones. harper was not boomer-y. he was post-reagan, post-mulroney. more alex keaton than steven keaton.

trudeau - 1971. trudeau has actually hilariously called himself a millennial in public and it wasn't seen as pathetic and immature. he's clearly gen x...

what about the opposition leaders?

erin o'toole - 1973

jagmeet singh - 1979

so, it seems like we dodged that catastrophe, thankfully.

there were several more stereotypical boomers that could have won - michael ignatieff, stockwell day, jack layton - but they were all thoroughly rejected. stephane dion, like harper, is a little young to be a boomer, and never really came off as one.

the dental office is refusing to merely clean my teeth. they gave me an ultimatum to get fillings or have nothing done at all. 

i guess a simple cleaning is not profitable enough to be worth their time.

so, i canceled the appointment and i'll need to find a different dentist to do a cleaning.

the first anti-boomer, though, was definitely zappa.

he's the alpha document, here.

he's where this all comes from.

and, he's going to win in the end, too.

why not post visuals....

the anti-boomer movement really started with punk rock.

here's a few exaggerated examples:

hating boomers is a gen x thing.

you wannabe kids are just a bunch of unoriginal poseurs.

i was posting anti-boomer screeds to fucking usenet in the 90s.

i was slamming the boomers before you were born, kid.

right.

so, the way you defeat this is with numbers - you do a maskless sit-down protest at the entry of the store, preventing further entry, until the manager acknowledges the situation, reverses the policy and apologizes for being an asshole.

you will need hundreds or thousands of maskless volunteers willing to block the entrance, otherwise it's pointless.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/arrest-mask-enforcement-woodstock-1.5823404

to state the obvious - no, not every covid death is preventable

in fact, the vast majority of people dying would have been killed by a strong flu in a normal year. these are overwhelmingly the kinds of people dying.

but, who prevents your death besides yourself? the state? that's absurd - only you can take actions to prevent your own unnecessary death.

and, don't let these idiots out there try to convince you otherwise - it's up to you, nobody else.

"i wasn't watching oprah.

i was watching jenny.

give me that bowl of doritos, i'm more depressed now than before."

you had months worth of warning, mostly spent staying at home, to get in shape.

but, you sat around and drank beer and watched oprah in your underwear, instead.

now, you're unhealthy and vulnerable and want to tell the world to change to save you.

awwww.

poor boomers. 

so sad.

listen, i'll stand up for what's worth standing up for.

fat, entitled boomers whining about the aggregate consequences of their lifestyle choices is about the last thing i'm going to stand up for.

maybe they could at least plant a tree before they keel over?

this is exactly the kind of entitled attitude that is at the root of the problem - people thinking that their risk factors don't matter, that everybody else needs to adjust their behaviour, for them, because they're more important.

the alberta government is right to publish data on comorbidities and tell people with high risk factors that they need to take responsibility for their behaviour - past and present. if they're going to live unhealthy lifestyles and then go prance around outside in a pandemic, they're going to die, and they only have themselves to blame for it.

this woman needs to take control of her own health back, not whine and complain that people aren't accommodating her for her own bad choices in life.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/road-ahead-alberta-covid-19-comorbidities-rebecca-haines-saah-1.5823847

so, i didn't even know what to do with these anchovies. should i wash them? microwave them to kill bacteria?

i ended up zapping them to be safe. they're for omega-3s, mostly, although i may get a tad of b12 and maybe some fluoride from them, too. i used 3 fillets - about 10 g - to start. you can taste it immediately, and i don't think i'd want to use much more.

however, it was overpowered by the garlic, which was only one clove's worth. that seems like too much, so i'll try a half a clove, next time. and, then i'm wondering if there's a point.

i'll say it tastes more like a caesar, though - if a very garlicky one, for now.

weird experience this morning, as i'm making the pasta i missed last night (i'll have four eggs tomorrow, instead). i'm going to hope it's positive. but who knows?

you can say what you want about my dental hygiene (and i do need a cleaning, at least), but one thing that is always true about me is that my breath is clear. there's no secret to it - i just brush a lot. i might pick up some coffee breath sometimes, and if i've smoked recently you can usually tell, but the stereotypical "stinky ass" breath is something you'll never catch me with.

so, you can imagine it's kind of weird that i'm noticing...let's say bad tasting breath...after i brushed with the dish soap, this morning. 

after i brushed with soap - not before.

can you smell your own breath? well, you've gotta do the cup-your-hand-over-your-face thing, right? you then blow directly into your nose. i guess you hope you don't have any anthrax or mad cow disease living in there. or that your teeth aren't randomly excreting cocaine.

the other thing you can do is wet the tip of your finger with your tongue and then press it up against your nose. i'm just imagining how somebody would react if they saw me do that in public right now, let alone generally.

see, that's the weird thing - it doesn't smell if i do either of these things. but, my mouth tastes the way that bad breath smells. how is that possible?

that smell is the smell of bacteria; if your breath doesn't usually smell, you've succeeded in killing the bacteria. or, at least, you've succeeded in killing the bacteria at the surface of your mouth, enough that you can't smell them.

i'm going to guess that what i did was kill a hefty batch of bacteria hiding in sneaky places, maybe even under the gumline, and the taste is that bacteria seeping out from the inside of my mouth. 

yummy?

well, you don't use antibacterial toothpaste, either, do you? guess what?

my experience is that i agree with this - the times i've felt most vulnerable are the times i've spent standing in line, because i can't distance beyond what the people behind me feel is appropriate. and, as mentioned, it puts me in close proximity with gross people - people i'd never go within 10 feet of. people with facial hair. yuck. gross...

it's not about prioritizing monetary exchange over public health, it's about trying to do what actually works. and, the only possible effective strategy right now, and for weeks previous, is to quarantine the weak and let everybody else exist normally.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/retailers-ask-ontario-open-stores-1.5824491

too much sleep, again :(

let's hope that's the end of it.