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What percentage of Americans are descendants of slave owners

it's a vanishingly small number. only around 6% of all Americans were slave owners. some were killed during the civil war, others in succeeding wars (notably WW1 and WW2) - the current number is unknown as that isnt really tracked, but it's unlikely to be more than 4% of the current population.

you cant really fault the decedents for what happened 200 years ago though - they werent there, their parents, and even grandparents werent born yet. for most families it's been 5 or 6 generations (or more). getting reparations would be something that should have been attempted 200 years ago. it's simply laughable to consider it now.

gotta pump those numbers up I guess?

there hasnt been any slavery in New York in basically 200 years. no one affected by it is alive now. nor are their children, or even their children's children.

yeah - so basically when you have an extraction there's a hole in your jaw where the tooth used to be. a bone graft fills in the hole. then an implant can be installed in that spot when the graft has taken/integrated into your bone structure.

I didnt know much either until I had to go through it. now I know a little bit

yeah, battery tech is pretty cheap when economies of scale are in play

well there's glassifying it (encapsulating the waste in an obsidian/glass container), burying it deep, deep underground in a seismically neutral/void area, and the ever popular launching it into the Sun.

maybe? no idea

eh, economic embargo Ecuador to force them to shut down the plant & root out the corruption in the supply chain

people are going to do things that feel good, regardless of what's a health risk. why else would teenage pregnancy be a thing?

banning e-cigs feels a lot like how K2/Spice was banned, then they just change the formulation & it's legal again

makes sense. Trump didnt get us involved in any wars. Trump didnt willingly and knowingly engage in genocide. the end of his term wasnt so hot but overall it was a good attempt at governance.

bone graft is definitely the way to go - if you get an extraction but no graft there's a chance your jaw can sort of cave in a little there - not really perceptible to people who have never met you but you will be able to see the difference in the mirror - so said my mother when I asked her about this, back when I had my extraction(s).

you have to wait for the gum to fully heal, then the dentist can peel a bit of it back, pack the hole where the tooth's root was with bone and a growth matrix, then stitch it back up. 6+ months later on you can get a post installed, then you have to wait for that to heal before the fake tooth can be installed.

the only two I had were performed by the same guy yeah. maybe his fault then I dunno.

jaysus

he's just about the right height too...

I suppose it depends on where you live and/or your socioeconomic status, but I dont really see that may fat kids in my area. see a lot of fat adults who let themselves go though

extraction. I've had a few root canals and they always go bad after a decade. get it pulled sooner, before the infection kicks in.

I can describe one of my extractions - the one where I didnt get put under for. it was so rough that I happily paid for anesthesia the next time I needed an extraction. so I had a failed root canal, and it got infected, like my jaw started swelling up in just a few days. went to the dentist, xrays to see how to go about it. the roots on that molar were branched and hooked & there was a cyst in/under that (the infection), the dentist had to use a dremel saw (or whatever it was) to cut the tooth in half, vertically, then break it apart with pliers (special dentist tool but it looks like pliers to me) so she could get down to the roots and then used the pliers to sort of yank/twist the roots out. it was not a pleasant experience.

not being able to eat anything that wasnt blended to a paste for a few weeks was even less fun - you get to a point where you CRAVE texture. meds were pretty good though, killed the infection off fast and the 5x strength narcotic of some sort absolutely erased the pain for the week the prescription lasted for. once I could eat real food again I gorged on raw broccoli.

anyway, I eventually had a bone graft put where the tooth was and then a titanium post installed. havent gone back to get a fake tooth installed on there, it's super expensive and I've learned how to live without a tooth in that spot.

or just dont read the "article".

that site is crowdsourced journalism - aka it panders to the people who give it money, publishing what they want to hear, regardless of how factual it may be.

it's an echochamber that you pay for.