Of course. I am shocked people don’t. But it’s not entirely the act of peeing, it’s the fact a sink and soap are right there. It’s a good idea to wash your hands occasionally, so how about now?

Do you? I am not arguing flouride is ineffective. I am arguing that you get much better results from a concerted effort rather than, just throw it in the water and hope for the best. The science is behind me.

Even in YOUR citation:

Most countries in Europe have experienced substantial declines in cavities without the use of water fluoridation due to the introduction of fluoridated toothpaste and the large use of other fluoride-containing products, including mouthrinse, dietary supplements, and professionally applied or prescribed gel, foam, or varnish. For example, in Finland and Germany, tooth decay rates remained stable or continued to decline after water fluoridation stopped in communities

We have gone way beyond the average by our methods.

Also, just for fun the article you posted suggests that cavities are up to 50 percent genetic. That is interesting. Even more reason to treat the individual instead of just dumping flouride in the water.

Also: do look up the research in the us about tap water avoidance particularly among minorities and poor people. There are peer reviewed papers. Let me tell you, the most needed demographic for floridated water is actively avoiding tap water.

Ludicrous claims? Kiddo?

Blah blah. You have nothing to say then.

Given that you can even question that there hasn’t been a shift away from tap water tells me you don’t know what you are talking about.

But keep saying kiddo, you sound very smart.

With our screenings and health care programs, without floridated water, we beat every floridated community BY FAR.

We are talking 4 to 10 times (depending on who you compare us to) better for our children.

So, you want to flouridate water, or do you want a program with effective results?

I don’t understand why you would even argue this.

Look: the point is simple. Education and outreach. Deliver flouride deliberately and with specific doses. Monitor outcomes. This is how you have good results and long term health care.

Just pumping it into water is not as effective. We know that.

I do understand the statistics, but I also acknowledge that many cities in Europe have varying levels of flouride in the water and saying “country” does not take into account variations within countries.

At the same time many places in the world are contaminated with flouride. There is a sweet spot for efficacy of course.

I am not saying fluoride isn’t helpful. But adding it to water? No thanks. Both places I live do not do this, and neither have higher instances of cavities than anywhere else (given relative incomes, lifestyle, and health care).

Besides I will say it again, since when do kids drink water?

Both places I live in dont do it and I am happy with that.

I have always hated the term “seats”. Get bent microsoft.

So why is it that 6 of the 7 countries with the lowest amount of caivities do not flouridate their water? Throwing floride around into a substance you use for everything is a poor approach to a problem.

Why would I want an adjunct in my water? I have no need for it, I don’t want the government wasting money on it.

It does very little for adult teeth, and is barely a blip compared to the effects of dental care and fluoride toothpaste for children.

If you feel differently, feel free to add it to your water.

97% of Europe does not fluoridate their water. Of the seven countries with the lowest tooth decay rates in children in the world, six have no water fluoridation programs.

Finally in the US there have been four fairly serious fluoride accidents. Also, phosphate rock mining and processing is very hazardous so if you are going to use Flouride use it purposefully, in a toothpaste or rinse, not just distributing it into water. Which, by the way, kids don’t drink a whole lot of.

I didn’t think it would but I still don’t want it in my water.

I want flouride toothpaste, flouride rinses and free teeth care for children though.

I disagree.

Legal stuff would be Use at your own risk, or answers may not be correct.

This is really strong language.

This is not true:

If checking your mail, browsing and streaming is all you care about without the Windows nonsense, with some scattershot choice of gaming, then Linux is for you.

Everything else in your post is preference, which is fine. I do not understand the love for Notepad++ but that is your choice.

But when you said Linux is basically checking mail and the rare game, well that is nonsense.

I use Linux because I need reliability and no bullshit so I can do my work. I remote into all sorts of environments and deal with Windows often, I would never want any of that on my home or work computer. Windows is too slow and too broken for me to rely on for earning money.

But I also do all my hobbies: music production, photography, graphic design, 3d modeling, 3d printing, creating web pages, etc. There is really nothing I need windows for.

As for games: My library shows 1200 games ready to play, so I am not sure why you say “scattershot”. I am playing the latest Resident Evil Requiem right now. Works perfectly, no set up steps at all.

So fine, maybe linux isn’t for you, but no reason to spread fud.

Also making your own is always a good idea.

I know you mean a specific type of sauce, but I do like this page for recipes:

https://panix.com/~clay/cookbook/bin/table_of_contents.cgi?salsa

Maybe if you were decent person you could have not caused people to want to lob missiles at you.

Copilot? You mean the AI with terms of service that are in bold and explicit: “for entertainment purposes only”?

Which is why its in the title and not the article? EntertainBait?

So you don’t understand why agriculture is the root of all our problems?

What exactly is “honest work”? Commenting bullshit on Lemmy like you? Using, I don’t know, technology that someone made, so you support that kind of work?

I missed a good old troll in the wild. Thanks.

Dumbest comment today.

Want to blame someone? Blame a farmer. We were doing fine until we invented agriculture.

But just like the tech worker, farmers today are not to blame for the problems introduced in the past.

Funny thing is that the Hypervisor workarounds do NOT work under Linux lol

It depends if you are talking anti cheat or anti copy, two different things. Proton translates the anticopy in denuvo passing it back and forth to wine, effectively making it work.

Regarding finding cracked games, just google “free media heck yeah” to find trusted sources.

No. I just do not want anything to do with that. Everything works now so why would I want to? It also breaks my cloud saves, and basically ease of use. That was fine when I was 12 but that was a long time ago.

Also, I quit using google a long time ago, but thats another story.

I have no interest in finding cracked versions of software, and there is always a possibility that the cracked version no longer will even work in linux.

I agree. Will they do that? Not likely.

And thats the funny thing right? On linux is it there? Yes. Do I care? No. It has zero effect on me because it didn’t take over the computer, only at a level inside of proton. Tab in and out, run at the same time, run on steamdeck. So much better than windows, and yet its going to get ruined.

I don’t think it will. It will just make them create another version of control, worse than the last. We already know that many kinds of anti cheat keep linux out already. Denuvo was more or less no big deal, I never even notice it exists. But now it is likely to change and make things shitty again.

Frankly I would rather they have not hacked it.