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- Comment on Mike Shapiro, the person behind G-Man in Half Life, just posted this on Twitter 2 weeks ago:
If the Millennium didn’t start until 2001, then the “next quarter century” doesn’t start until 2026.
- Comment on This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store 2 weeks ago:
Plus, this gas station is likely very close to a PO. Heating up piss to smugle in from 20 minutes away won’t likely work very well.
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 3 weeks ago:
Google Maps on my smartphone is God tier.
I drove in the before times. You have any idea how much of a pain in the ass it was to use a paper map or look at written directions and miss a turn? Do you realize how great it is to type in “food near me” and see everywhere you might want to stop for a bite to eat and right where it’s at? That I can youch a business name on the screen and it will show me its hours they’re open? How n8ce it is that I don’t even have to look away from the road and have nice lady robot voice tell me to turn right 2 miles?
I could give up a lot of my smartphone stuff and not have it be “for the worse”, but im keeping the mapping stuff.
- Comment on Patient gamer badge of honor on the Steam Replay 2024 4 weeks ago:
In the past three years, the only time I hadn’t got that badge was the year vampire survivors came out.
But no fair. It was a pretty retro game and only c9st like three bucks.
- Comment on Just put a spray tan over it 1 month ago:
She prolly into photosynthesis now.
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 1 month ago:
I’m not sure which job is which.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 1 month ago:
I’m guessing it probably does. It brings in like $30,000,000,000+ a year. What it actually costs to run is seemingly a closely guarded secret, but I’d probably say it’s a fair amount less than the thirty billion, since they aren’t having to pay a third party company or anything for hosting any of it.
- Comment on flouride 1 month ago:
You stated you’ve used this one half ased article in order to claim “the science is unclear”, which just announces that you’re a troll or a simpleton. You’re giving weight to a Chinese blip of an article and holding it up to an equal value against the loads of research and data that shows its safe.
If someone was holding a penny in one hand and 50 pennies in the other, would you say it was unclear which hand was holding more?
- Comment on flouride 1 month ago:
You want some fancy rebuttal to a single linked study that the article states was a bunch of partials thrown together, that came from a country famously known for half-assing and cutting corners to get ahead? The country that was caught mixing lead into ground Cinnamon to sell it for a higher weight? The one where buildings sit half done or the cement falls apart by the time it’s together? The ones who lay sod over cement in order to pass the amount of vegetation present on new construction?
That’s the article you could and and latch onto in order to believe? Are you even aware that fluoride occurs naturally in water and that about 40% of all the drinking water across the globe already has around the amount the US gets theirs up to, or a larger amount(some places so large they do actually cause health issues)? It’s literally been drank for thousands of years.
But you trust an incomplete study from China more than anything else? Why?
- Comment on flouride 1 month ago:
Yep. In fact, 21% of the world’s natural drinking water used falls within the recommended range for fluoride, while over another 20% is higher and in some countries actually does cause some non-superficial side effects and problems. Those don’t pop up until in concentrations at least 3 times higher than recommended.
- Comment on flouride 1 month ago:
Fair enough!
- Comment on flouride 1 month ago:
The Harvard geneticists little opinion piece she wrote completely ignores all the direct evidence that was gathered back then, about how cavities always decreased in fluoridated areas when compared to neighboring cities that hadn’t yet done so.
Also, yeah, it’s bad for you in large doses. Literally anything is bad for you in large enough doses.
- Comment on flouride 1 month ago:
It’s an opinion piece by a geneticist (so not a chemist or biologist or a field that could be related) and she ignores all the direct evidence that every city and county that added fluoride started having fewer cavities than neighboring areas that hadn’t yet added it.
She then further points out that it only causes health issues in much higher concentrations than what the US was getting our water supply up to. You know, like literally anything that you get too much of is bad for you. You can literally die from drinking too much plain water. Too much of anything will kill you.
- Comment on flouride 1 month ago:
Your link is more or less an opinion piece from a geneticist, so this isn’t even her field of study.
All her health issues she points out are for fluoride concentrations over triple the amount that tap water is brought up to.
The reason it’s usage spread across the country was because while the entire country had access to things such as fluoridated toothpaste, counties and cities that started fluoridation of their water supplies consistently had fewer cavities than areas that didn’t fluoridate the water. This alone outlines the glaringly obvious flaw in her argument.
Further still, while the US adds fluoride to the tap water in a concentration to reach 0.5mg to 0.7mg per liter of water (a couple drops per 50 gallons), natural drinking water for over 20% of the world is in concentrations well over that (to be clear, being well over that can cause health issues. Too much of anything can cause health issues.)
In other words, there is no evidence that this low concentration of fluoride causes health issues. There is loads of direct evidence that it reduces cavities. Plus, this woman from your opinion piece is talking out of her field. Not to mention that 21% of the world’s drinking water supply naturally already falls within the recommended range of what the US takes theirs up to. It’s just that most of the US water supply naturally falls below that amount.
- Comment on flouride 1 month ago:
The fluoride added to water gets it up to 0.7mg/liter.
That ends up to be 2 or 3 drops in a 55 gallon drums worth of water. Not much.
Fluoride is a natural substance and is found in many areas drinking water already. Many areas in much higher concentrations than 0.7mg/liter, so realistically people all over the world have drank fluoridated water for thousands of years.
You have to well over double the 0.7 before any health issues may appear and the first to appear is at about triple the concentration in kids under 8 years old who drink it for years getting spots on their teeth. The spots are only superficial.
Going into concentrations even higher than that CAN cause health issues when drank for longer periods of time. All of those cases being from naturally occurring fluoride, which actually effects somewhere north of 20% of the world’s population.
Which makes the argument that fluoride in our water keeps us passive as being extra stupid, since water sourced around Columbia (the country) is far higher than .07mg/liter and Columbia seems to be caught in violence and turmoil and instability quite a bit over the decades.
- Comment on Covfefe 2 months ago:
I like leaving a 1/4 cup spoon in em. 1/4 cup is 4 tablespoons, so you want 10 it’s just 2 1/2 scoops.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 months ago:
Really, it just takes an infinite amount of monkeys one time.
- Comment on McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years 2 months ago:
I get a lot of bogo offers and cheaper deals on mine. Plus the points add up to get stuff pretty quickly. I go there a few times a month.
- Comment on McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years 2 months ago:
Maybe they didn’t gain many customers with their $5 deal, but a lot of customers they already had started buying that a bunch instead of one of the $10+ meals?
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 months ago:
The data will have to be there for sorting reasons and such, so this is just an extra nod to using an app like Grayjay, which will almost assuredly still pull the data and display it for you to see.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 2 months ago:
Ask them how they feel about marrying someone outside of their caste.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 2 months ago:
Saying Florida is a shit-hole doesn’t mean I just hate anyone that comes from Florida. I’ve vacationed a time or two in that shit-hole.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 2 months ago:
Not at all. It’s not really speculation or opinion or projection. It’s not even a secret. They are known quite well at overall being horribly racist. They’re even racist against portions of their own country. Let alone foreigners.
- Comment on Seriously good cold-climate heat pumps are headed to the US market 2 months ago:
Geothermal heatpumps that gather the heat from underground below the frost line are different and much more time and space extensive than a regular heatpump.
- Comment on Militaries Are Rushing to Replace Human Soldiers with AI-Powered Robots. That Will Be Disastrous, Experts Warn. 2 months ago:
If full scale war ever breaks out and everything is on the line, the Geneva convention and altruism and worrying about only shooting enemy combatants will mostly fly out of the window. You think Little Boy and Fat Man were being selective about which people they were turning into radioactive dust?
- Comment on In a first, US approves massive new lithium mine in Nevada 2 months ago:
Lithium extraction is a very messy business. I suppose bfe Nevada is the best place to try it in the US and see if it can be done without screwing up or contaminating all the groundwater in the area.
- Comment on Seriously good cold-climate heat pumps are headed to the US market 2 months ago:
Oh yeah? Link me one single residential heat pump from anywhere that works sub 0F.
- Comment on Seriously good cold-climate heat pumps are headed to the US market 2 months ago:
Those are different and that’s cheating. It’s not what this article is referencing or talking about.
- Comment on Seriously good cold-climate heat pumps are headed to the US market 2 months ago:
Heat pumps don’t work well (even the new ones coming from this article are only good to 15f) anywhere near that cold. Most are only good to about 25f. Anywhere they’re installed that drops below freezing all have a backup heat system, whether or not it’s a gas backup, or resistive electric backup.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 2 months ago:
Yeah. India is pretty much a piece of shit country. Their government seems really corrupt and they pollute like mad while they still have so much of their busted caste system in place. All while being racist as hell.