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  • Other countries don't have fluoride in the water, it isn't the end of the world. And don't people usually drink bottled water in Florida anyways?

    HOWEVER other places that don't have flouride in the water do normally have affordable and accessible dental heathcare. And most people brush their teeth with toothpaste with flouride in it. You don't really need all that much of it, as long as you get some.

    With the anti-fluoride mindset, people are not going to get it through other means most likely. And this especially hurts poor people and the homeless, since they are going to have the hardest time getting enough fluoride and won't have access to dental healthcare. So small issues that would normally be prevented, are going to cause huge issues.

    It's just another way the Republicans can punish the poor.

  • Ew Windows 11

  • It's all fun and games until your computer turns into a black hole because there is too much information in too little of a volume.

  • You might want to look into using some form of parameterized queries.

  • I think it has gotten a lot better in the past 10 years, but there are still a lot of places where there is too much lead in the environment. It doesn't degrade at all, so unless it's dealt with it just stays there. Given we've only gotten rid of leaded gasoline less then 3 decades ago, the effects are still very much there.

  • On the other hand, we have seen exhaust being very efficient in distributing chemicals with adverse health effects across the planet. Leaded gasoline was a huge oopsie that still has adverse health effects today.

  • Another effect is micro-particles from the jet exhaust that form a lot of nucleation sites, this allows the vapor in the air to condense into tiny droplets more easily.

  • Its profits are plunging, as is its share price.

    Looks at share price: Up 10% in the last month....

  • It's actually pronounced Pah-Wraith

  • Yes the myth that irradiating something makes it radioactive is a very persistent one.

    The reason radioactive material is so dangerous, is because it has the tendency to spread around. Not the radiation, but the material itself. Then people get exposed to that radiation and hurt themselves. There is a particularly tragic accident that happened in 1987 in Brazil where thousands of people got exposed to a stolen radioactive material. Especially when the material sheds dust it's very dangerous because it can then easily be ingested and even low levels of radiation which normally wouldn't penetrate the skin can cause issues inside the body.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

    Another reason the myth persists is because high enough levels of radiation can cause other materials to become radioactive. However on Earth this is only the case inside of fission and fusion nuclear reactors. And the source of a lot of the radioactive waste. But outside of that, nothing on Earth will make another thing become radioactive.

    I know a lot of the food used in the military is normally irradiated. This allows for a long shelf life, which is particularly useful if you are killing kids spreading freedom on the other side of the world.

  • I don't even know how they managed this. I regularly create test repos to reproduce bugs in open source software, to go with the bug report. When it contains some random generated credentials only used within that repo, Github freaks out and I need to tell it it's just testing shit and perfectly fine to publish.

    You'd have to be intentionally publicing shit like that.

  • Impossible to tell

  • My kitchen faucet is like this. It's one of those with single little stalk to regulate both temperature and pressure. Not only do you need to get it precisely right for the correction temperature, you also need to get it right for the pressure. Not far enough up and you get a little drizzle, too far and it splashes everywhere. And the stalk is kind of sticky as well, as you push it there is no movement until suddenly it moves. So making small adjustments is really hard

  • IIRC that was part of the mission? They wanted to push themselves to see what could and could not be done with a very strict budget and cheap commonly available parts and tools.

  • Shoot first, ask questions never.

    You want to ask questions? You get shot first

  • Please send flowers, I just died from cringe

  • Why can't we live in the dumb timeline where Twitch chat plays US Government? They rename the station to "PENIS STATION <3". but then gift a bunch of money so the station actually gets overhauled and better than ever, so everyone accepts the name.

    This timeline sucks.

  • Drinking too much milk makes your bones harder, not stronger. This means they become more brittle and have a greater chance of breaking.