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ccc
3hr ago
This is most commonly raised as a counterpoint to "why are we spending so much in Ukraine, when {pet issue at home} is totally ignored!"
It's also maybe a compromise strategy to appese peaceniks, but this is frankly retarded as peaceniks are never appeased.
I at least fully advocate taking the risk of nuclear escalation, since the alternative (appeasement of nuclear threats) is far worse. This is unfortunately a hard sell to the American voter who cares more about culture war and gas prices. If Trump can make that sell, then I'll be impressed.
HalloweenSnarry
3hr ago
We have RO systems attached to our taps in my home, so I don't need Brita or bottled.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
3hr ago
Star Trek: Lower Decks is actually quite good. There’s some wokeness, but for the most part it’s a solid work with good characters, hilarity and normal Trek things. It is also definitely not for children.
anon_
3hr ago
He can't do (1) because Putin knows that and so he's in a shit position to negotiate. You can't do anything where you want it more than the other guy.
naraburns
nihil supernum
3hr ago
If you're not aware, there are a ton of "pred-catcher" YouTube and Rumble channels.
I was not aware, but your explanation seems quite plausible to me, and all the more so if such content is presently en vogue.
Chattooga
3hr ago
I don’t see how this makes him a republican. There’s plenty of issues that differentiate the two parties, and his point in this case is a set of changes/tweaks that the current party should make. It’s not an exhaustive list of what the democrats should be.
anon_
3hr ago
I can imagine a DA who wants to make it a hate crime arguing that they were specifically targeting gay men.
This seems pretty obviously true: they were on Grindr and so they were targeting gay men.
Which I guess goes to the general incoherence of hate crime enhancements in general.
naraburns
nihil supernum
3hr ago
What am I missing here?
Honestly, just looks like bad drafting. It's clearly intended to parallel the language of 11-208(a) and would, I expect, be enforced in that way. But on this topic perhaps more than any other, people will avoid pointing out even obvious drafting issues for fear of being accused of being opposed to such laws.
KingOfTheBailey
3hr ago
From the "... and giving my GPU a well-deserved rest", I take it to mean he's been having a lot of fun prompting local (and presumably less censored) image generation models.
anon_
3hr ago
I agree there is a kind of DOS attack here where a bad actor can sow chaos. I think we also agree that this probably wouldn't work at any kind of scale or reliability.
anon_
3hr ago
Previous centuries didn't have a 9 minutes video of a handcuffed man dying in front of a crowd.
whenhaveiever
3hr ago
Could they get the new justice through in time? 56 days until the next Congress convenes. From Ginsburg's death to Barrett's confirmation was 38 days but from Breyer's announcement to Jackson's confirmation was 70. Biden would just about need someone ready to go already and then they could only lose one of Manchin or Sinema to still confirm the new nominee. Republicans would pull out all the stops and they don't have to delay things all that long, especially over the holidays and with the debt ceiling fight coming up too.
Edit: It would be quite a risk for Sotomayor to voluntarily step down at this point, and she may judge that it's less of a risk to stay in.
cae_jones
3hr ago
That sounds more dangerous to me, but it really depends on the amount in the bottles. AFAIK, the only known death from fluoride poisoning was a 3-year-old chugging a bottle of fluoride solution, but it was a bigger one at a dentist's office.
The main thing is that swallowing fluoride is fairly useless, and where the risks are. You want it to stay in your mouth.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
3hr ago
Color me also skeptical, because otherwise one might expect to see noticeable IQ differences between the towns that don't add fluoride (famously, Portland) and the rest of the country.
Now, I have heard people suggest that "there must be something [not] in the water in Portland", but that is never followed by "and it's making them smarter than the rest of us."
cae_jones
3hr ago
Its functions appear to be neutralizing acids produced by mouth bacteria, and remineralizing enamel. Adding more mostly seems to counteract the higher acid levels generated by the modern diet. Fluoride apparently increases the effectiveness of both these functions better than just throwing morehydroxyapatite at the problem.
I expect it'd actually be a good idea for mothers anyway, since pregnancy makes it easier to lose teeth, but I'm going off anecdotes for that one.
Glassnoser
3hr ago
I would say almost everyone. I almost exclusively drink tap water.
Glassnoser
3hr ago
The two questions I have are
- Did the study convincingly show a causal link?
- Is it a priori plausible that IQ is so sensitive to a naturally varying element which is sometimes found in much greater concentrations?
zeke5123a
3hr ago
They wrote articles before the switch about her terrible of a candidate she was including how vapid she was.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3hr ago
Covers still live. But also sampling serves a similar function.
Glassnoser
4hr ago
Just walking around a seeing the number of old people who don't have any teeth makes me think cavaties are actually a massive problem, still, despite water fluoridation. I'm sure it would be much worse without it.
Glassnoser
4hr ago
I think it's next Friday.
Glassnoser
4hr ago
The original point was never to compare American workers to those across the rest of the world.
My point was that if the rest of the world gets by on much less, then they clearly get paid enough to keep up with basic necessities.
Wages are up, but the price of goods in the United States is outpacing that growth to the point that lower- and middle-class people making decent wages still can barely afford the necessities, e.g., rent, groceries, gas, childcare.
The word "real" means the numbers are adjusted for inflation, so if real wages are going up, that means that nominal wages are increasing faster than the price of goods. This is especially true for lower and middle class people. Their earnings have risen more than those of upper class people. The wages of the poorest have risen the most.
Swing state voters said this was their biggest concern and hope (and believe) Trump and the Republicans will come to the rescue.
If you look at polls that have been done over the last few years, most Americans say they're doing fine but believe most other people are not. These economic problems are completely imaginary. This has been the best period for the increase in the standard of living of the American poor in a very long time,
Logistics would be a nightmare as you’d need cops on every corner to prevent defiance. Even at that, I’m not sure if it’s possible. There are enough hotheads with guns in America that if Americans decided to actually resist an order, you’d have to either back down or bomb cities like Gaza to do it. I’m not sure if even with the police and NG you’d have enough people to pacify 300 million Americans who want nothing to do with a lockdown. At the very least, it would take a lot of effort.
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