Is there actually a need to? Does ingested fluoride do anything that toothpaste fluoride doesn’t do?

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I agree. Mass all the way. It’s especially complicated when the liquids are viscous and stick to your measuring vessel.

The only time volume is permitted is if it’s too light for a typical kitchen scale to measure.

Language is funny like that, isn’t it.

A single vote shouldn’t “matter” in the sense that no single person’s vote should have a huge effect on the outcome of the election. But every vote should matter in the sense that every vote should have a small effect on the outcome and that effect should be guaranteed for every vote that was cast.

One of the biggest challenges when creating something new is in not knowing whether or not it’s possible. Once you know, you can just keep pouring resources into it and know with near certainty that you’ll eventually hit your goal. Since the US already has so many other tools for avoiding a nuclear strike, there’s no reason to publicise a new one. Keep it for when the other tools fail, or else everyone else will also have it and you lose your advantage before you could use it.

I think you may have forgotten some of the context when you responded. We already have a consensus among experts that IQ isn’t intelligence. That’s not up for debate anymore. The question is whether or not intelligence can be measured, and the semantic question of defining intelligence is very important here. You can’t answer “how do we measure X?” without first defining what “X” is.

You would first need to define intelligence before you can measure it. We’re still nowhere near any kind of agreement on that first step.

I also apparently have high IQ according to online tests and my mind still glazes over conversations even when it’s a topic that I’m supposedly an expert on. I know all the words. If you were then down and I read them, I’ll be able to make perfect sense of them. But a real time conversation? Forget it.

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It would be exceedingly rare for one party to get enough votes to form a majority under PR.

The current system would encourage the formation of coalition governments. Those coalitions would probably not look too different from the big parties we currently have since parties would only group together if they have sufficiently similar goals. This does make it very likely that the majority coalition maintains a fairly stable high level agenda over time.

Barring a trump-style lunatic jacking up the executive branch

It could happen, but that’s not what I’m worried about. I don’t believe that any single law we pass would be deemed unjust in isolation, but the totality of laws can be. If everything is set up to benefit the majority, then everyone else gets left behind. It’s not a matter of malice. They’re just not considered in the calculus.

An example that comes to mind is the treatment of native Americans. They keep getting the short end of the stick, and while some concessions are made, it’s never because someone looked at the numbers and decided their situation was unfair. It happens because of some combination of public pressure and the benevolence of the people in charge. How many other such groups are there that are still getting completely ignored because the public don’t know about them?

On lead-acid, yeah. It was a fun time for all.

If you are a dollar multi-millionaire, you should be able to afford maybe 10-20 small flats

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Edit: I kept reading. It’s 25mil, so that’s actually a reasonable estimate.

Where do you source the ingredients?

They list party affiliation on the ballot under the names.

The problem seems to be in treating all photographs as art and thinking about what the camera is doing at all. I’ve been filming so much of my every day life since my kid was born and it’s never gotten in the way of actually being present. Sure, the videos are often pointed off to the side and very shaky, and the subject may not even be in frame at all, but it still sufficiently captures the moment to be worthwhile. We take these videos to preserve memories, not for whatever artistic value they may have.

And it allows users to create their own one-off objects that they need rather than a corporation creating an immense surplus of parts the majority of which will never reach consumer hands and will end up in a landfill.

This is key. You can 3D print things to fit your exact needs. Mass produced injection molded plastic is only cheap because of the mass production. Molds are expensive. That means they necessarily have to produce a lot more than people need and market them to people who don’t actually need the item in order to make up for the upfront cost.

There are a bunch of different definitions people use for introversion/extroversion. “Extroverted introvert” means you’re extroverted by one definition and introverted by a different one.

I don’t see how the vote count contradicts that message. As of this moment, the vote count (upvotes - downvotes) is 110 on the parent comment criticizing the use of AI art and 260 on the main post. Technically a minority, but it’s a sizable minority.

I also don’t agree that it’s off-topic. The contents of the meme is the topic. The contents are AI generated, so that makes it one of the topics.

I can’t figure this one out. Is it an actual dad joke or is it a meta dad joke where the joke is that “dad joke” = joke about dads?

Survival takes priority over enrichment. There’s nothing elitist about survival.