It just kills me a little inside that it’s easier to get parts for my car than it is to get the right replacement toothbrush heads!
From that study:
A randomized double-blind clinical trial was conducted
LOL! I do not think that means what they thought it means. Kinda hard to keep the participants from knowing which study group they’re in.
Still, interesting setup. 60 dental students makes sure that the control group brushing manually is doing so with proper technique. They were getting the best-case scenario for manual brushing.
Hey, be nice. Maybe Trebs was a little snarky, but I don’t think you need to go straight to the jugular.
Hey, I actually liked PHP back when I was working in it.
People have lots of criticisms for it, and – yes, they’re all true. I still enjoyed working in the language back in the day.
Are y’all based in America? I bet dentists there are paid to endorse…
It’s a little frightening how plausible this is. And yes, I’m American.
This is def the case for me. I used to bring the old fashioned toothbrushes for camping (well, for any travel). I noticed a HUGE difference when I’d get home again.
Now I just bring the normal toothbrush. The battery lasts long enough for most trips that it’s fine.
Ooh, good idea
Many companies didn’t enshittify because they were shit from the beginning.
Clever, I like this.
Oof, that could be a post entirely on its own!
Now I kinda wish I’d done that! I really miss the old electric toothbrush I had back in the mid-2000s. It had a nice little caddy for toothbrush heads between uses. Sadly, that one left the house with my ex, so I had to buy a new one.
And then another new one.
And yet ANOTHER new one.
But I’m not sure if I’m at 3 or 4 cycles since then. I had purchased a Phillips model that crapped out absurdly quickly (but still outside the warranty window, of course).
Guh, toothbrush purchases ought to be something boring, not something you have to carefully research and compare parts list numbers!
Ah, that does make more sense :) Thank you
Thanks. Hopefully we can pass these on to someone who can actually use them.
After this, switching back to the dinosaur type is tempting for sure!
My wife bought new toothbrush heads on her way home from work today.
They didn’t fit. She bought the “Oral B IO” heads, but we have a “regular” Oral B toothbrush, not the Shiny Fancy IO design.
And this is after she bought replacement heads last week at another store – which turned out to be “compatible for” a different brand :(
Ugh.
It played the gif for me.
DSP is great, def worth it if you like Satisfactory.
I also love Timberborn. It hits some of the same gameplay notes but with a very different vibe.
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I’m assuming this was a typo – sea duck community support makes no sense – but I can’t quite figure out what the intended word was. Elder? Other? Something else?
I noticed this effect when city buses were idling about a block away from my old house. It would hit just right (just wrong?) on a really noticable resonance frequency for that place. It used to make it hard to fall asleep if I went to bed after midnight.
I don’t notice weird vibrations like that much at my current address, fortunately.
And in yeehaw units, that’s… 20 vs 40mph
No. Double blind means that both the researchers and the participants don’t know who is in which group (control group or experimental group). The idea is to avoid spoiling studies with the placebo effect.
It’s kind of hard to avoid knowing that you’re in the control group when you’re being asked to brush with an old-fashioned toothbrush instead of an electric one.