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Fluoridated water and occasional low-dose supplement tablets are the clear reason why I didn’t have a single major cavity until I was nearly 50, in spite of a lifetime of very haphazard, on-again off-again brushing habits. (yes, I’ve since standardized my brushing!). My parents and other relatives aren’t especially genetically resistant to tooth decay or anything, so I’m pretty sure it was the fluoride that gave me such a cavity-free first five decades. That certainly saved me money, but it saved the public health system even more. Meanwhile I still did my part to keep dentists in business with yearly cleaning and checkups.

yeah and ugh. but tbh we see this wording even from outlets surprisingly far to the left. (of a depressingly right-shifted so-called center, but anyway.)

worth a read.

Dammit, Daily Beast, these are not “entitlements”. They are programs Americans were forced to pay into with the guarantee that they would receive proportional benefits.

I think “vast” majority is an overstatement. I realize the vote skewed in his direction among the older generation, but a majority is not a vast majority.

Not too sure America ever had a Justice system, only a money and power driven legal system which in some of its finer moments managed to approximate justice.

“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice”

pardon the micro issue but I think you mean credible instead of credulous. only trying to help, not criticize.

From what I read today this includes the IRS’s project to let Americans file their taxes for free. I forget the most recent status of it except I think it was already in effect as a pilot project available in certain states and was planned for national accessibility. And obviously there’s been big money pressure to kill that effort.

Constituent pressure? How frustrating!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Regan

Why were they making a movie about Donald Regan?

Thing is, yeah they’re fucking stupid but they’re also voters who the Dems could have persuaded and hardly tried. Repeatedly spamming “vote for us or you get Trumped again” doesn’t count as persuasion.

It’s worse than murder because

• the state MUST be held to the highest standard;
• the state has the resources to do other than kill;
• execution ends up costing the state more than life imprisonment or better solutions;
• because someone who is ready to murder typically already does not fear punishment of any severity;
• because resources spent on decreasing economic inequality decrease the murder rate far more effectively than capital punishment ever can;
• etc.

Someone should sell him a fake, mocked-up Greenland, fly him there for a photo shoot, and disappear with the money. And leave him stranded too.

You forgot cheating at golf.

Odd how cruelty is in quotation marks but SLAMS! isn’t

The missing link here is they want you to enter voluntary slavery when you realize it’s the only remaining way to afford healthcare.

upvoting for well articulated nuance

I don’t know how chainmail-specific your wish is, but there are plenty of weighted blankets for sale. Most of them have thousands of tiny heavy beads sewn into a quilted fabric that keeps them from moving around or bunching up too much. The one I have weighs about 8 lbs in Queen size and it feels, weight-wise, similar to the feeling of having four or five extra blankets on the bed but without all the heat/insulation of doing that.