The World In 2000, As Predicted In 1910

Some are fairly accurate.

Please, for your wallet, take a moment to read about The Surgery Center of Oklahoma, and their ilk, if you can find one:

They are a cash only hospital surgery center.

Dude had his knee replaced, and spent his week-and-a-half recovery period at the Marriott Residence Inn. They even brought him an ice machine and extra pain meds. No extra charge.

That's an interesting set up to be created by two anesthesiologists who are the highest paid segment of the medical profession. Won't work for me because without insurance it can't happen, but a good deal for those who can use it.

I was reading recently about having procedures done in Mexico, especially dental. Most of the doctors go to US medical schools.

I had my upper teeth crowned in Mexico. $2500 including the anesthesiologist to knock me out so I would stop crying like a bitch.

Five years later, three have fallen off due to the dentist not leaving enough original tooth to cement the crown onto. Can't be repaired; must extract what little remains of the original, several root canals and implanted replacements.

No knockout this time.

Worth it? I dunno...

For me, "Mexican dentistry" is not a confidence-inspiring phrase.

Walmart's Most Surprising Top Sellers - State By State Map

KY & PA - Legos

TN - Traffic safety cones

Wisconsin - Shopkins. Wait. WTF is a Shopkin?

I'm having a hard time believing walmart in VT sells more luggage racks, or in MA more tennis balls, or in AZ more toasters, than anything else. Nope, not buying that for a minute. If that were true the stores would close.

Most Surprising Top Sellers

Not

Top Sellers

They are not talking about overall top selling items.

OK, so is AZ selling more toasters than other states? Or toasters is a top seller behind all the stuff people normally buy all the time? Basically it tells us nothing.

It's doing exactly what it says on the tin. You're over thinking it. I think. Everything is interesting...Look closer. But maybe not with a microscope.

It's just surprising things they sell a lot of in that state. It'd be plainer, I guess, if AZ's entry was winter parkas, I guess.

I take it that AZ's WalMarts sell a lot of toasters, compared to the nat'l average, and that therefore Arizonians really like toast, compared to the nat'l average. Not that they sell more toasters than anything.

It's not an especially valuable trove of info, I'll give ya that.

If they had said more than the National average that would be helpful but I guess half the states would be more than the national average. Guess they just picked out an item in each state that sold more than they expected. Interesting just poorly worded presentation.

Well, my then-wife is his cousin and talked me into it. Apparently his clinic is only a block into Ciudad Juarez, he trained in the US and the clincher was an on-call knockout doctor. I am a dentist-phobe (and darn proud of it! :) ) and don't react well to pain. Most dentists on this side of the border only use 'conscious sedation' or good old Novocaine.

My experience was 100% positive at the time. I had all my upper teeth done over several hours. I awoke with NO pain at all, no wooziness like I had when I had an impacted wisdom tooth surgically removed in the hospital, not even a bad taste in my mouth. Once I was awake, the dentist came back in, made some small adjustments that were not possible with me asleep (painless but oh! that pneumatic grinder! <shiver>) and I walked right out the door. They provide a van to take me home, except the short walk through the border checkpoint which is required by immigration law and not a big deal and that was it.

He did say to let a few more hours go by before I tried to eat anything that required serious chewing to let the cement set up fully but that was no problem. I just had a light liquid lunch and was fully functional all day. Had a HUGE steak for a late supper though, as I had been on a full liquid diet for two weeks with the temporary crowns which would fall out if I talked too much and wound up super-gluing to hold them in long enough to get the permanent crowns made. I was hungry for real food and that one and a half pound T-bone was the best I had ever had! The biggest too! LOL

Note that I don't eat that much in one sitting but I treated myself that one time.

I'm just thinking now that the old saw about you get what you pay for does indeed hold true.

I bet Arizona sells extra toasters because it's full of old people who grew up on toast as a guaranteed breakfast item, but modern toasters are shit and break in a year because there's no market outside of old people.

Don't get me started on toasters. There's a thread around here somewhere....

We've had our Hamilton Beach toaster oven that we bought at Wal-Mart for 11 years. And it works as good today as when we first got it. Used it this morning for toast, it gets used used nearly every day. Just keep stuff clean and it will last along time.

Popdigr uses a toaster oven occasionally. I hate the thing. Heats up the house more than using the real oven. And besides that, it's Black & Decker, and I don't wanna eat something cooked by a power tool.

I use a toaster oven too. More often than my microwave even.

Cooks almost anything better than my gas oven with less heating of my place and a smaller counter footprint.

Except Tombstone pizza. THAT, I have to cut in half to make it fit inside.

But the fan motor gave out after six or so years so the convection part is useless but it still makes darn good toast/waffles!

I thought I was the only person to cut a frozen pizza in half and cook/eat half a pizza.

Welcome to my club, Pam!

This research paper is behind an paywall but you can see the highlights and abstract.

Having trouble buying this shit.:eyebrow:

Are they counting D.C.? Because unless Puerto Rico made some drastic moves in the last few hours...

Must be. :confused:

The Pessimism Manifesto covers the 12 types of pessimism.

There might be a full copy on Sci-Hub, if you don't mind a little moral ambiguity.

Your tax dollars at work.

Very good imagery of the recent hurricane damage. NOAA flew over affected areas for Harvey and Irma and shares that imagery below. Much of it is better resolution than what you would see on Google Earth.

Irma

Harvey

I was wondering about the Boy Scout facility and undeveloped island that I stayed at in the summer. Couldn't get information anywhere, but with this imagery I could see where a kayak stand/tower on the island got blown across a lagoon and into the mangroves, and a bunch of composting toilet structures also got shredded and thrown into the mangroves.

For example, this is a trailer park in Big Pine Key
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OK, the links are maps, where are the pictures?

Everything is interesting...Look closer.

Zoom in to the shaded area(s). Way in.

Yes dear.

And there is more. They have imagery of varying quality going all the way back to Isabel.
https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/

Here is today.

Click 'Okay+'.

Nice

Interesting.

Cool, I can't wait for the end of the century. No, really, I can't. ;)

They are adding to the Maria imagery in Puerto Rico each day.

This is a small part of a huge solar farm that got damaged. I imagine even the undamaged panels are producing no power if the connections broke.
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I thought that was gonna be a former trailer park.

At last I've found something I can say I've lived up to expectations as a member of the Silent Generation. I could even move up a notch.

All that free love in the 60s, I reckon.

An interactive map of UK music. Cool.

V. cool but allowing that "actual location of artist may vary somewhat" :D

i was hoping that someone had been borne out of our Limey's Isle but no, they're all just Glaswegian up there. Not that there's anything wrong with that

I found a fun time waster.
https://www.zona-militar.com/foros/t...24700/page-124

Groan... the comments are worth it though. ;)

Here is a particularly interesting 'The Way I Heard It' by Mike Rowe:

A Little Dab'll Do Ya

(no, it's not Brylcreem)

This person has a disease. Maybe not a disease, but, they're sick.

Kramersapartment.com

This is how I got there.

An Inventory Of Every Item In Kramer's Apartment

Baby Map

When a baby is born in a country, that country flashes yellow.

India and China are working overtime.

Ain't nobody birthing no babies in Greenland.

Smithsonian has a real interesting on reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire.

Either history repeats itself,

...or we intentionally view history through a modern lens so that it appears to.

I can't tell the difference any more, is there beer in the fridge?

Not mine. I'm drier than Oklahoma in the 30's, too.

Hilarious Horrible Christmas Design Fails<--Kinda/Sorta NSFW

:lol2:

Both links full of genius

FREE GAMES
 

9 minutes 53 seconds on the April 14, 2016 crossword.

Yeah, idk, that's the one that came up.

Thanks for the games link, Bruce, or is it Scarface now?:stickpoke

Aaanywho...

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38 moar tweets that just nailed marriage

From Nature.Com An excellent read.