I thought about this recently. I live in Australia. For the first 30 years of my life I didn’t look after my teeth properly.

Now I’ve got a really good oral hygiene routine with flossing, interdental brushes and a good quality mouthwash. I went through my routine one night last week and thought about how much better my gums were and how few problems I had with my oral health. I used to have frequent ulcers and permanent gingivitis.

As great as I felt knowing I’ve gotten on top of it, I feel terrible. I’m fortunate in that I can afford to spend 20 dollars a month on interdental brushes. Another 5 on floss. Another 10 on mouthwash. The $200 electric toothbrush that makes it easy to get a really solid clean.

Like what the fk man? Taking care of my teeth is not only going to have massive positive health impacts on me, but there would be huge cost savings for the government who only seem to intervene and pay up when it’s too late and you need hospital care for whatever eventuality comes.

A significant portion of the country skip meals in order to pay rent. They certainly don’t have that kind of money to spend to maintain there teeth, as well as any kids in the house.

Oral hygiene products should really be subsidised for low income families.

Here ya go. I spent 7 years in the military as a dog handler with two different malinois during that time.

I then got out and worked for a government agency investigating dog attacks.

One of the first jobs across my desk was… an American Bully XL. Almost killed another dog and sent a male person to the hospital. The dog was from an upper class family and was around little children daily.

We had 7 dogs that we had confiscated, pending court hearing regarding attacks.

7 out of 7 dogs were bully breed dogs.

In my experience I will not trust a bully breed dog in any circumstance. I’d take a malinois any day over a bully breed dog.

Within cells, interlinked

You’ve paid for the right to watch the movie. The movie industry will argue that you’ve just paid for the right to access that physical copy and I’m sure from a legal point of view they’re right as they’ve lobbied to increase control out of greed and the hope of being able to get more money out of you for the same effort.

Morally you paid to access the content, you paid to compensate the creators for their work. Now you’re entitled to view what you’ve paid for.

I don’t see this ever being a hard hitter in the gaming space.

The thing that intrigues me about the vision pro is the movie experience. If it can end up being an imax level experience at home then there’s value there. Just not at the current price…

After a long break from the seas, returning after close to 8 years, pirate life has really improved.

Synology + dockers + automation tools = the experience that streaming should have been

Imagine driving around, probably with a punisher logo somewhere on your uniform or gear, and then posting your big bust of… store brand groceries

Sure ETSI are responsible for the encryption standard.

And Motorola is free to use that standard on radio handsets made with components of ITAR controlled items.

The use of any component controlled via ITAR will have the entire unit controlled.

Having used a Motorola product covered by ITAR on “the wrong continent” many times.

Bingo. All of these technologies are controlled by ITAR.

I have zero doubt this was for clandestine use internationally and it was almost inevitable. Outside of a back-door there is no way you’re getting access to properly encrypted net with some of the higher end technologies.

Hahaha I accidentally smeared it with the iOS highlighter.

Thanks mate. I really appreciate your time. I hope I get to see quantum computing be in practical use in my lifetime.

It’ll be insane to see where “AI” and quantum computing lead us. Folding at home was always really interesting to me, and I could imagine a machine learning platform combined with the massive increase in compute power could solve so many biomedical problems.

Amazing. Thank you.

Don’t ever apologise for getting carried away. Sharing something you’re passionate about is a gift for your audience!

Can you also explain quantum advantage for me?

And share your thoughts on what you think the timeline will look like for the development of quantum computing?

Also I’m sorry but I have one more question for you, Being a bit of a tech nerd I’ve had a few conversations with people about quantum computing and encryption. Obviously there’s concerns that current cyphers will be obsolete, but I’ve always wondered is this not a problem that we could easily solve by just drastically ramping up entropy?

I have a very very basic idea which could be wrong.

When qubits are entangled they’re basically a traditional bit of data, paired to another. If you change one of the bits, you change the other.

So what’s the benefit? I think the easiest way of thinking about it is to dumb it down as much as you can.

If I’m processing 4 bits of data. Say 1010. And then I execute a function that changes that data to say 0101. Traditionally I need to send another 4 bit string of data for processing. But if my original data was actually a pair of entangled qubits of say 10 and 10, well if I change one of the pair to 01 i’ve changed the other pair already because they’re entangled.

So effectively through one qubit entangled pair I’ve doubled my throughput.

So if you can effectively scale this, the potential upside is huge.

“Cells. Within cells interlinked.”

Booked my imax ticket today. Very excited

Shhhh. No tears, only dreams now.

Honestly man you can believe whatever you choose to. I’m not here to argue with anyone.

I’m in my 30s and went from having bad gingivitis with bleeding and pain during brushing, to having gums that are comfortable with being thoroughly physically cleaned every day and that makes me happy.

Awesome job mate. I went through a similar stage with my depression. It takes courage to pull yourself out of situations like that so make sure you appreciate yourself.

It’s kinda disgustingly satisfying when you pull gunk out. Then to think I never used to floss and that gunk used to just stay there…. 🤢

The only interdental brush I find I can use is Piksters. All the others bend so easily.

I wish they were cheaper.

They’re every inconvenience rolled in to one. A pain to get in. A pain to park. Use heaps of fuel. Don’t fit in garages, and to top it off are expensive AF. I’m confident in saying unless you tow like, horse floats on the regular, if you own one you’re a fucking idiot.