NeverNudeNo13
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- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that proves my point entirely.
In 1945 they fluoridated the first public water supply.
In 1979 the first published research began to appear to show how fluoride might be able to remineralize dental enamel.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
It’s so funny I was just having a similar conversation about neurotoxic venomous animals in another thread. Lethality is an obviously concerning threshold, but there are substances out there that can easily destroy your quality of life and livelihood that never reach the concern of being lethal.
I think for mostly rational people concerned about fluoride in their water is that it was a public health decision made with little to no actual science proving it’s safety or efficacy when it was first decided that they were going to add it to the public water supply. The proposed benefits of it weren’t even supported by scientific evidence, it was just supposed that exposure to sodium fluoride could potentially reduce tooth decay for some.
Personally, I’ve suffered from the cosmetic damage of dental fluorosis, and I’m not necessarily thrilled about fluoride. But I have way more issues with public mandates founded on pseudoscience than I am with sodium fluoride. Especially now that we can see evidence that for some people fluoride can be especially beneficial.
So what was wrong with giving people the option of using fluoride toothpaste or mouthwashes… Why did it have to go into the public water supply?
- Comment on Just a little guy 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s mostly true… But it’s not like a hangover… I had a friend bitten by a snake out in the Mojave once and I’m sure she would have strong opinions about how strenuous the recovery was from it. Neurotoxins, especially potent ones, can be disruptive enough to create long term disabilities. If you are someone who performs a lot of skilled fine motor movements as part of your job or as part of a hobby or something it could be a significant amount of time for you to fully recover from a neurotoxin.
Cytotoxins are interesting as well, though generally not considered deadly they can really mess up your quality of life and be extremely debilitating.
Generally just a good idea to stay away from anything venomous.
- Comment on Just a little guy 4 weeks ago:
Yeap, but that’s because the venom is a hemotoxin rather than a neurotoxin.
- Comment on Linguistics 4 months ago:
daytranslations.com/…/origin-english-alphabet/
Here is a decent explanation of some of the evolution behind the alphabet. It’s funny that a lot of what we consider special characters in modern typography are in fact actually original letters of the defunct alphabet systems. It’s been under our noses the whole time, we just don’t really teach that alot of these characters were once part of the working alphabet system. &, for instance… Was the last letter of the alphabet for some time. The story behind @ is even more interesting.
- Comment on Linguistics 4 months ago:
The Latin alphabet is not the original alphabet system used for English. There are modern alternatives that have been suggested to help eliminate some of the confusion created by using a non native alphabet, the Shavian alphabet for instance would theoretically solve much of the issue.
It’s kind of what happens in other languages as well… English speakers like to quip that there are x number of dozens of ways to spell Mohammed. And for sure, in English, it probably feels that way. But there is actually only one proper way to spell it you just have to use the Arabic alphabet to do so.
- Comment on Linguistics 4 months ago:
It’s funny because a ton of these common errors are due in a huge part to the fact that we don’t use the native alphabet for English. Lots of stuff has to be transposed in creative ways to deal with the romanization of English.
- Comment on Never Forget 7 months ago:
True, but also there are consequences of regulated capitalistic systems where the regulatory bodies become fascistic. And I mean in the traditional (actual) definition of fascistic and not just the way it gets thrown around modernly.
- Comment on bugs 7 months ago:
All good my dude… It didn’t make sense to me on my first past either so I figured that it might have gotten you in the same spot to. Just glad to see the community is not throwing down votes at ya anymore, because it just felt like an honest misread. Cheers.
- Comment on bugs 7 months ago:
Alternatively you could stick with the theme established by the first two stats and say that constitution is throwing a tomato really far repeatedly.
- Comment on bugs 7 months ago:
They are missing some punctuation where it was desperately needed but imagine a comma or period after " spiders are not bugs" and reread.
- Comment on Israeli ambassador says military can’t distinguish between civilians, terrorists in Gaza death toll 1 year ago:
This is correct… Terrorists do not wear uniforms and HAMAS in particular has a nasty habit of using civilians as cover. No matter how precise Israel is able to conduct its military operations, HAMAS will ensure that they surround themselves with civilian body armor.
If the Arab nations truly cared about the Palestinians, they would open their borders and accept them as refugees so that the innocent Palestinians could escape the conflict area, and then they and everyone else should encourage all of HAMAS to stand up and take the two rounds they have coming to them and stop hiding. Not to mention to release all hostages they currently still have.
But Egypt and Jordan do not give to shits about ending this conflict, minimizing civilian casualties, or the Palestinian people. But they don’t, and never have.
- Comment on Do scrota have the same wrinkle pattern every time they get cold? 1 year ago:
No chance… The taint stain wipe industry lobbyists are way to powerful and far to rich to let something like that slide…
- Comment on Do scrota have the same wrinkle pattern every time they get cold? 1 year ago:
“press harder…” “Make sure sack is dry and try again”
- Comment on Do scrota have the same wrinkle pattern every time they get cold? 1 year ago:
Day to day, yes… Decade to decade, very unlikely.
- Comment on During Pride month, Target sells shirts and flags. Gun ranges? 1 year ago:
For those of you who don’t know… the caliber is usually known as 9mm Parabellum… so there is a joke in there too.
- Comment on Petite is the new perfect 1 year ago:
I’m guessing they meant 6cm… but I don’t know or really care all that much.