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I lost a tooth after the pandemic. To seat an implant they pack the void with one of several things, including sterilized cadaver bone, then wait for the oocytes to colonize and make new bone.

I got a synthetic bone sand. Little bits of it migrated like glass slivers would but otherwise it wasn’t bad and at least I didn’t have dead people in my mouth.

Obviously this is a bit of a different scenario given the fairly substantial differences in the shape of the wound, but I wonder how much longer we will need to use naturally occurring materials versus synthesized ones, made in a sterile environment.

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Yes, that was supposed to be “osteocyte” but it’s far too late now.

I uhhh, don’t think oocyte is the right word. Osteoblast maybe?

definitely not oocyte

OP probably meant to type osteocyte and it got autocorrected to something else

Autocorrect is one of the biggest misnomers in all of history, I think; in fact, it's downright Orwellian. It should be called "auto-incorrect".

generative grammar

Right. It's all fun and games until it decides to "correct" drug names in your doctor's notes.

I highly doubt software that doctors use for patient notes and prescriptions would even have the option to enable autocorrect. If it does, that’s a giant oversight on the devs’ part.

I’ve seen some dumb shit in my days. But I’m glad you still see good in the world.

Global autoincorrect in MacOS supposedly did that in recent years, according to some post by Scott Alexander I read a while ago.

If I could find the motherfucker who replaces “its” with “it’s” every goddamned time I mean its, his mother fucking days would be over.

We should also defenestrate whoever corrects the previous word or phrase based on what you just typed in iOS. The amount of times I've meant something very technical or specific to a field that a programmer in silicon valley has never heard of and then had that corrected to something else totally meaningless by the second or third word is an infuriating waste of time.

That behavior is so infuriating! Especially since I frequently fail to notice it because I am focused on the current word, not the one I had already confirmed as correct.

Oh how about autocorrect just having less words than a decent dictionary. Today autocorrect tried to convince me reciprocal wasn’t a word and that I wanted reciprocate. When and why did autocorrect / auto suggest / grammar all get conflated, especially outside of phones? When did merely uncommon usage become incorrect? It’s a small but rather constant annoyance and it really is Orwellian

When you go back and fix it. And it corrects it again.

Flames. On the sides of my face.

I hate to brake it to you, but its a problem in more ways than just that.

Typing on phone, late at night. Always a gamble.

This is why I don't eat out.

I already made the “dead people in my mouth” comment so I can’t exactly fault you for this. But someone else can!

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