Thoughts & Scribbles
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Dental Safety and Health
Factories are noisy places. In order to hear and be heard, you need to be close to your conversation partner, pay attention, and speak loudly. However, this closeness can have some unpleasant side effects. Just like the bad breath I am often exposed to. By the Holy Virgin! What is…
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Eid al-Adha Rant: Vegans, Sacrifice Rituals, and the Smell of Raw Meat
Why is it so hard to reason with older people? You’re old enough; just let go of this ritual of personally slaughtering animals for sacrifice. Let the butcher handle it in two minutes. Unsanitary conditions, struggling animals, people grappling with the gruesome process—what’s the point of all this? Is it…
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Knowledge Is Power: Or How to Fake Being an Intellectual on YouTube
To become cultured and informed, I deliberately watch videos made by those people who are clearly knowledgeable—the ones with the crowded bookshelves, the illogically placed paintings and figurines, the trinkets from other cultures, and the essential round glasses. No, it’s not that I’m too lazy to read books; it’s because…