The amount of fluoride added to drinking water is not only safe, it may have a positive effect. All the studies they are referencing looked at much higher levels of fluoride (usually naturally occurring) than are added to drinking water in the US.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"We find that children exposed to recommended levels of fluoride in drinking water exhibit modestly better cognition in secondary school, an advantage that is smaller and no longer statistically significant at age ~60."
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18.4¢?
I watched my local price go up by 60¢ in one day! This is all of the cost and none of the benefit.
Bluesky profile of "Doge Musk"
Bluesky profile of "Doge Musk," blocked.
attracting the bots with this one
X Money's business model is probably going to be "give Elon all of your money and he'll let you have some FartCoin or something. Minimum deposit: $420.69"
What in the actual fuck is this demented old man talking about?
A drawing of "Miss Minutes" from the Marvel TV series "Loki." She is saying "woo-doggy!" The caption says "Miss Minutes: For all time. Always."
If you live in the US, you're most likely going to Miss Minutes tonight...
(60 of them, to be precise)
"I am proudly ignorant"
If it's "missing," may I suggest we start the search here?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
People Magazine becoming a more credible source of unvarnished truth than The New York Times and The Washington Post seems like some Demolition Man shit
Today I learned that the McDonald's CEO runs 50 miles a week and I realized who he reminds me of
I got a hedge-fund manager and a Fetterman in the Senate and an election denying car dealer in the House 🙃
In retrospect, I think this may have been one of the major reasons John McCain didn't become president.
Republican voters clearly don't particularly care about an ignorant, incompetent pick for VP (or pres).
(from 2007) "Jesting, McCain Sings: 'Bomb, Bomb, Bomb' Iran"
www.npr.org/2007/04/20/9...
When I need fashion inspiration, I always ask myself, "what would Mark Zuckerberg wear?"
www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...
That sounds like a lot of work when they're literally making war plans at Joe's Stone Crab and executing them at Mar-a-Lago
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Starting to wonder if I should make a second account just for posting excerpts from _1984_ that exactly parallel current events...
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...whom he did not know. In fact he had not been aware that there was any war.
“I don’t remember.”
“Oceania is at war with Eastasia. Do you remember that now?”
“Yes.”
[begin highlight]
“Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Since the beginning of your life, since the beginning of the Party, since the beginning of history, the war has continued without a break, always the same war. Do you remember that?”
[end highlight]
“Yes.”
“Eleven years ago you created a legend about three men who had been condemned to death for treachery. You pretended that you had seen a piece of paper which proved them innocent. No such...
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Highlighted excerpt from 1984, by George Orwell: ...whom he did not know. In fact he had not been aware that there was any war. “I don’t remember.” “Oceania is at war with Eastasia. Do you remember that now?” “Yes.” [begin highlight] “Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Since the beginning of your life, since the beginning of the Party, since the beginning of history, the war has continued without a break, always the same war. Do you remember that?” [end highlight] “Yes.” “Eleven years ago you created a legend about three men who had been condemned to death for treachery. You pretended that you had seen a piece of paper which proved them innocent. No such... Excerpt From 1984 George Orwell https://books.apple.com/us/book/1984/id1602697097
![A page from 1984, by George Orwell:
ration did not start till tomorrow and he had only four cigarettes left.
For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. [begin highlight] It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week.
Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [end highlight]
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A page from 1984, by George Orwell: ration did not start till tomorrow and he had only four cigarettes left. For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. [begin highlight] It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [end highlight] Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passion-ately, with a furious desire to track
He'll just say that "gas prices have come DOWN to $7 a gallon this summer"
Image from Blade Runner (1982): Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) sits at a table in front of the Voight-Kampff test equipment
Just found myself daydreaming about buying some kind of robotic "sheep" for my border collie to herd...
and then I got an alert on my phone that my Voight-Kampff test is scheduled for Monday at 9:30 AM.
Wouldn't be too surprised if they pivot to "beef is expensive, but Soylent Green™ has all the protein and nutrients you need, for an affordable price!"
It sounds like he's saying people should just eat dog food... but have you bought canned dog food lately? It's not cheap either!
Also, if you eat liver as your main protein source and you eat as much protein as he recommends, your skin will fall off from vitamin A poisoning.
Given the amount of beef that Americans generally eat, it doesn't seem like it would be healthy to replace it with liver... you'd think the guy who went to a dog barbecue would have read this particular story at some point:
www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disa...
If Americans ate as much liver as they do beef...
Does RFK Jr. know what happens if you get too much vitamin A by eating liver all the time?
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I always thought Elliot Carver was Rupert Murdoch, but the Ellisons might be an even better match. Plus we have Hugo Drax now too.
