That’s not true of most schools or most rains. I not only grew up in SoCal I also taught here, and only got two “rain days” in that entire time.

Well of course it’s not, there’s no excuse. Gaetz is a predator who exploited and raped her, full stop.

Like I said I’m not excusing either Gaetz or the US. I also wonder whether she would have been more comfortable leaving her teeth crooked if she weren’t in the US, unless it caused health or eating issues.

But it’s here on Lemmy, and in years past on the other place, where I have heard people’s frustration about teeth being separated as “luxury bones” under even the best healthcare systems. It goes back through history, separate schools, but the more we learn the more obvious it seems that dental care is healthcare.

From what I’ve read and heard, many poor people just don’t get any dental care, whatever country they’re in.

I wish for her sake she’d been able to find an orthodontia school where she could have gotten her braces from a student under the supervision of a professor.

Depends if you pistol-whip someone to death

Yes US healthcare sucks. And this particular story sucks. And Matt Gaetz sucks. But I just want to mention that many other countries with superior healthcare systems also suck when it comes to dental care. Despite the fact that a bad dental situation can have devastating health consequences for the whole body.

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I completely agree. That said, a little lip balm while you’re in the waiting room can help with the chapping.

I started brushing before going and the visit takes less time now. And I get less of the “hygienist-induced gingivitis” (my phrase for soreness after they poke around in there) so it’s a win for me. It also feels more polite not to be breathing my lunch at them. But it’s your mouth, you do what you like.

Although, once alerted and not helping her, the school is at fault as well. And perhaps the individuals, such as the principal.

Seems to me a kid who’s essentially created child porn and distributed it at school would be a huge potential problem for the school.

If it was a realistic-looking image of a nude 13 year old, isn’t it child porn?

Sounds like the school and the sheriff’s office only started to investigate once the family got lawyers.

I heard the term “sixpenny nails” the other day (The Rifleman’s son Mark was shopping to fix his chicken coop) so my inquiring mind was already primed to go look it up. Just needed that little nudge from you. Now we both know!

Here you go: https://www.senco.com/senco-blogs/what-is-a-penny-nail/

I think it being Veteran’s Day probably helped. Seems like being in that sober facility helped her make an effective plan.

How does that compute with move fast and break things?

You forget he owns the majority of the SCOTUS.

Some little kid thinks he’s found a chewable vitamin…

Strips off his clothes and runs around the preschool hugging and biting people, yells gibberish at invisible kitties, then projectile vomits, rolls around the floor and falls asleep.

But it’s preschool so nobody notices

Going to college can inform, but doesn’t cure innate stupidity. And if the student is particularly willful, they can hold onto their ignorance as well.

Case in point: Trump.

Substantial yes, but not necessarily good. One enabled Reagan to get the Contras funded,one helped Bush lower taxes on the wealthy, another led to Clinton’s reelection…

In general the population has blamed Republicans for causing shutdowns, through history, but Democrats have repeatedly caved on them without attaining their goals.

I sincerely hope this one brings about the end of Schumer’s career.

That’s a couple of fucking enormous ifs you’re basing your dreams on. In all my days, and I’m very old, a party caving while they had the support of the voters but the minority in Congress has never worked out.