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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dentist the Menace⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The wild part is what’s cut off in the bottom section.

  However, "Much of what he championed—patient advocacy, increased access to dental care, and advertising—has come to pass in the U.S.

  So I guess, possibly not as bad as the opening line makes him sound, and perhaps even an improvement over the standards of the time

  Some other choice sections.

  The band attracted large crowds and hid the moans and cries of patients who were given whiskey or a cocaine solution that he called “hydrocaine” to numb the pain.[2] He charged 50 cents for each extraction and promised that if it hurt, he would pay the patient $5.

  he Historical Dental Museum at the Temple University School of Dentistry has a display dedicated to Parker, with his necklace of 357 teeth and a large wooden bucket filled to the brim with teeth that he had personally pulled. The bucket of teeth sat by his feet as he lectured the crowds on the importance of dental hygiene.

  Almost sounds like the guy may have been maligned by his fellow dentists for calling them out on their BS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not trying to be facetious, but you just kind of do it. I think it might be something that you just subconsciously keep track of once you really become aware of it. I remember it seeming like magic until I was maybe 15 or so, and then I had landmarks for each direction in my mental map and could figure things out in reference to them. After a bit of that, I could mostly stay oriented when traveling by land, and now it’s not an issue even when I fly somewhere. I went to England for the first time last year, and I had the cardinal directions sorted probably by the time I’d walked from the train to my hotel.

  Once you’ve got it down, you just sort of do it on autopilot.