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absolutely. but i think there's at least some evidence that lack of appropriate fluoridation is beneficial. certainly in my anecdotal example (ofc, i didn't grow up in this town and every town in the US has wildly different fluoride levels in the municipal water systems).

we moved to a rural area in 2005 with clean, but unfluoridated well water. had a son. brushes twice daily for 2 minutes a time like everyone else in the house.

he had an excessive amount of cavities and the dentist did not use any supplementation. This was painful and unnecessary for my son (we stopped using that dentist when it was clear this isn't 'normal').

i realize this is n=1. but apparently calgary [0] also realized this was having an opposite effect as well. (yes i realize this is slightly different than supplementation in the parent article but the supplementation would have saved my kid from unnecessary cavities.)

[0] https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5224138/calgary-removed...

EDIT: clarity on 'supplementation'

i agree with this esp. when the parent linked a wiki page that, if you go beyond the single photo on the page and read it, is completely counter to the comment.

i'm confused too, but ty parent for making me aware of vision zero.

you mean the company that spent $9B to make $4B in 2024? that openai?

i agree with you on this - it seems that openai hallucinates reality as much as their products do :-/

when kids during the napster era were downloading music, the mega-corporations yelled that their bottom-lines to shareholders were being destroyed.

now, when the mega-corporations do it, it is 'just the cost of doing business'.

in both cases, the mega-corporations win because...they have the most money. law, and certainly justice, is not for the poor. at least not in america.

this was the comment i was looking for! i remember those red pages and found them annoying on even legitimately purchased games (which is how copy protection has always been IME - makes it so legitimate purchasers of a game got annoyed and hence, got cracks for games to just not be as annoyed!)

> but over time it became clear it didn't.

are profits spiralling downward? are these businesses, overall, making less profit? because of remote workers?

or is it closer to the truth to say that no amount of profit - or asserting authority over workers - is ever enough and since companies are in a position of power to squeeze blood from a stone, they will?

> Many organizations seem to believe they can sidestep this conflict by remaining neutral.

you can't be neutral on a moving train.

if you think it is bad now, and this will 'blow over,' history is there to prove you wrong.

let's be more direct and truthful - ibm directly aided the third reich in their despicable actions. full stop.

for sure. but if ANY of that kind of thing gets in the way of profits, well then that's not OK. in capitalism, profit is the only thing that matters. CSAM? drugs? underage use? pfft.

until this country gets serious about this stuff - and don't hold your breath on that - this is the absolute acceptable norm.

i'm an american and it is is exactly stuff like this that causes me to avoid using services like this like the plague if i can avoid them.

despite living here, privacy to me is important. if i were this woman, i'd not let it go at all - don't give these scumbag companies agency to do what they want with impunity.

> Because empathy isn't useful to society.

things that lack empathy: corporations, machines, AI, psychopaths things that are problematic to society: corporations, machines, AI, psychopaths

would WSL work? (sorry, not used windows in a hot minute...)

this. and let's not forget that these....officers always receive the best, most top notch training to use these things safely. (/s)

yet another reason to ensure footage looks like 'nothing terrible happened to these people' as expertly trained cop uses a weapon of war against civilians.

the GOP: "states' rights! states' rights!!"

also the GOP: "not those rights! only the rights we want to share"

i'm on a number of discord servers. yes, some have that 'mean girls' vibe but considering the content, i expect that. the more tech oriented ones i'm on...that's not an issue at all.

to me, in general the vibe of a given discord is similar to the general vibe of that topic (i.e some games have terrible, vitriolic cesspools for communities and those discords reflect that. other things, such as one of the rust ones i'm on, reflects that community's vibe which is a lot more wholesome imo).

i can't wait for the "there's been confusion about what we've done" message to come out. cuz its always us, right? the customer is always wrong in this era of techno-feudalism.

not just drop the ball, but willfully kick it to the other goal

makes perfect sense - let's remove chargers that have already been bought, paid for, and installed. smh.

i mean, literally the very first sentence in their statement is a blatant lie that consumers are supposed to just go 'see, they care about us!':

"We're always looking for ways to improve our customer service experience."

in no universe is putting a mandatory 15min wait on a customer calling for help "improve [our] customer service experience" and if they think it actually does, that person should be summarily terminated from their position for being this stupid.

"We're always looking for ways to skirt customer service needs like the big boys at google, et. al., and to maximize our bottom line" is the real translation i guess.

so trying to understand here. when metallica et. al. went after kids (well, i guess ppl my age all those years ago lol) for using napster and downloading their music...they made this very clear distinction right?

i'm beyond sick and tired of these large corpos arguing 'rules for thee but not for me.' unfortunately, in this country with no meaningful legislation around privacy or really, anything digital, it's a game of 'who has the slickest lawyers to pull one over on the judge/jury' it would seem.

i appreciate the optimism that there will be something left to actually have this 'do-over'...

> He does have to be a guy

why?

i too have noticed this and as such, have switched to USB out to async USB input DAC that supports that. there are plenty of good quality, low cost DACs available from folks like schiit, smsl, topping, etc. (cheap enough that as someone that used to 'roll tubes' in my audio systems, i can now 'roll DACs' instead lolol).

i'm quite partial to the ESS sabre series of DACs at this point personally.

huh. reading the piece it seems pretty reasonable relatively (we clearly are living in an interesting moment...) speaking.

what exactly are you commenting 'not like that' about? or are you (e.g.,) a federal contractor yourself?

if anything, thanks for letting us all know that University of Washington blackmails their students in bad faith. hopefully this will save at least one other kid from being taken advantage of like you are clearly being and go to a superior institution that doesn't do these kinds of things.

i'm sorry but

> All companies care about safety

is naive at best.

yes, all companies care about safety...after profits

we've structured corporations that this is the main driver, full stop.

as an example, earlier in my career i worked in aviation test equipment. for commercial and govt't agencies. let's just say i avoid flying anywhere at all costs now if i can. why? because, as always, safety is secondary to profits (and most of the time, you hope it is secondary and not ternary or worse). and this was in a 'highly regulated' industry.

i also hear official inflation numbers in the US are 'low' right now too, yet that doesn't mean prices are down or that things are affordable to the common person. my lived reality talking to actual citizens tells me a lot of folks are struggling. if anything, applying that same experience to argentina is my mistake. i guess.

leave it to ft.com to paint this as a feel good, happy story. meanwhile, argentinians are facing record poverty levels, inflation at extraordinary levels, and extreme wealth inequality. but hey, recession exited! austerity 1 working proles 0.

> direct injection of said propaganda straight into our toddlers, teens, and tweens brain

by that same logic, shouldn't we then ban ig/facebook/threads/twitter/etc.? but since its our propaganda, we can classify as 'news' or some other thing?

i very much get what you're saying in principle (re: CCP); however, i don't see the difference in potentially, negatively affecting children's brains.

EDIT: corrected word