u/Deanoh1546

When do you all typically schedule your dental checkups? I'm locked into 6-month intervals because of insurance requirements. I've been targeting "sometime in March" and "sometime in September" since those months tend to have lighter schedules for me personally, but I'm currently sitting in early May and my timing has already drifted later in the season. I suspect this will keep shifting further into summer because I'm also trying to book morning appointments, and those fill up quickly. In my experience, availability opens up after the holiday rush in late December. If my first appointment of the year ends up scheduled for late January/early February instead of my intended March slot, I'm essentially losing the ability to maintain consistent 6-month spacing, and that throws off my entire preventive care routine for the year. But I'm wondering how everyone else manages their scheduling, particularly when appointments need to be reserved months ahead.

Curious if others have found clinics that make it easier to maintain consistent spacing without the constant rescheduling headache.

lions are the only truly social cats on the planet and that single trait changes everything about how they live and hunt compared to their solitary cousins, they exist in complex family units called prides where the bonds between the females form a stable foundation that can last for generations, while the males are famous for their massive manes which serve as both a shield in battle and a signal of health to rivals the lionesses are the actual tactical engines of the group, they work in perfect coordination using sophisticated flanking maneuvers to take down prey that is often much larger and faster than they are, there is a heavy crown to wear as the apex predator because a pride is constantly under threat from wandering males or competing hyenas which means their life is a cycle of intense rest and explosive high stakes violence, their roar is one of the most powerful sounds in nature capable of being heard miles away as a sonic boundary marker that tells the world exactly where their territory begins and ends, they represent a strange mix of regal laziness and terrifying efficiency spending most of the day lounging in the shade only to transform into a wall of muscle and teeth the moment the sun begins to set, it is this duality of grace and raw power that has made them the ultimate symbol of authority and courage across every human civilization that has ever shared the earth with them

I am making a datapack that gives players custom items with stats that level up as they use them. I need to save each players progress somewhere that survives a world reload or server restart. I tried using scoreboards but I also need to store more complex data like a list of abilities unlocked per item. Is there a way to save custom NBT data per player inside the world folder without using external plugins. I looked into storing data in a separate file in the data folder but I am not sure how to access that from commands. What is the cleanest way to do this in vanilla.

Been doing residential for about eight years. Ran into an insulation crew today who insisted we should run all our Romex below the stud notches so they could lay their batts flat without splitting them. They said it's faster for them and that we should change our whole rough-in order. I have never seen anyone ask that ever. The way I was taught is drill through the studs and they work around the wires. That's always been the way. Am I missing something or are they just being lazy. We have our rough inspection first anyway. Inspector needs to see all the bays open. If we hid everything below the notches he would fail us for sure. I told them no and they got pretty heated about it. One of them said I was making their job impossible. Just wanted to hear if anyone else has seen insulation crews try to change the way you wire before lifting a single batt. Seems wild to me.

We implemented an AI agent to handle initial candidate screens because our team was drowning in volume. Made sense at the time.

Now 40% of our screening calls are literally our AI trying to get past the candidate's AI assistant to reach an actual human. We watch call logs where two bots politely ask each other "is a human available?" for 3 minutes before one disconnects.

It's absurd. We automated to save time, candidates automated to filter recruiters, and now we're just... automating against each other.

Started using analytics to at least identify which calls are bot-vs-bot so we can skip them, but this feels like an arms race nobody wins.

Is this where recruiting is headed? Are we all just going to have increasingly sophisticated AI gatekeepers until nobody actually talks to anyone?

What's your approach to this? Go back to manual screening? Better AI? Just accept the robot wars?

So, graduation is creeping up fast and honestly, I just had a mini crisis in front of my bathroom mirror. I’ve basically survived these past four years on Cougar Grounds coffee, late-night ramen, and way too many vending machine snacks.

My teeth?

Let’s just say, they’ve seen brighter days. Last week, my roommate literally roasted me by calling me Captain Coffee Stain after I smiled during our group study session.

Now I can’t unsee it...

So now I’m on the hunt for a dentist that’s not going to bankrupt me or make me feel like I’m in the opening scene of a horror movie. I’ve heard a couple of people in my stats class mention UrbnDental over in Midtown and Uptown, but I haven’t gotten up the nerve to call yet. Has anyone actually been there? Is it student-budget-friendly?

And, like, do they talk to you like a normal person or is it all clinical and awkward? I’m honestly a little nervous because last time I went to a dentist, the guy lectured me about flossing for 20 minutes and I left feeling judged AND poorer.

If you’ve got any other local recs for teeth whitening specials (bonus points if they do student discounts), please drop them!

I’m trying to not look like a zombie in my graduation pics, my grandma has already threatened to frame every single one.