flakeshake

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know how they come up with this stuff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for sharing this article. I suppose “Fear City” was very much the backdrop of the Joker (2019) movie ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do dentists have such a bad reputation compared to other kinds of doctors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At least in Germany, applied dentistry was seen as of even lower rank than surgery, something that did not have to do with professional medicine at all (the vocation of the university-educated medicus). Dentistry was a crude affair practiced by barber-dentists or other non-surgeons, sometimes in public bathhouses (places often associacted with prostitution and their bathmasters ignoble company, legally barred from forming or entering guilds), sometimes in broad public on the marketplace. Dentists were traveling people and quacks, those who break teeth (Zahnbrecher), often failing at proper extraction in the first place. All those prejudices took a long time, real progress in the field (anasthesia, pedal-powered mechanical drills) and lots of organized lobbying to dispel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Internet Portals do you recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some time ago, i found Curlie - a Web Portal maintained by volunteers, just like Wikipedia i presume