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amazingamazingon Statewide fluoride ban for tap water passes in Florida

water additives are used to remove bad things in the water. so in effect the additives exist to actually move the water qualify closer to the "default", not "enhance" it. if tap water was literally h20 and nothing else the additives would be unnecessary, no?

as far as measles go, people have the right to not get vaccinated if they choose - it's dumb, though and others have the right to not let them participate in things since they're not vaccinated, too. it's not really analogous to the fluoride thing at all anyway.

amazingamazingon Statewide fluoride ban for tap water passes in Florida

salt and milk don't come out of your tap, though. would you agree with governments building giant towers everywhere resulting in humidifying the air with chemically infused mists (which are said to be beneficial)?

after all, if you prefer the current air, you can wear a breathing mask attached to a tank with your air of choice.

it's crazy to me that people can see what harm the government can do in 2025 and still think the government knows best.

amazingamazingon Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model

just as funny as an Apple, for sure.

amazingamazingon Statewide fluoride ban for tap water passes in Florida

why would you want this? brush your teeth or swish with high concentration fluoride mouthwash. there's actually no benefit of ingesting fluoridated water. any benefit is simply incidental since it must touch your teeth down the hatch. don't take my word for it - go read the papers yourself, they all say as much. Or to put it another way, would pumping fluoride to your stomach help your teeth? I hope you know the answer.

literally every toothpaste in the united states explicitly says to spit, not swallow. there's a reason for that.

amazingamazingon Statewide fluoride ban for tap water passes in Florida

the default should be no additions, no?

amazingamazingon Statewide fluoride ban for tap water passes in Florida

repeat after me:

topical fluoride application on the teeth is better than drinking fluoridated water.

we're in a post truth era where literal fact is downvoted lol.

amazingamazingon I've Worked at Google for Decades. I'm Sickened by What It's Doing

They’re sickened, but not before they make their money.

amazingamazingon I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

Yes. Private institutions shouldn't get public money.

amazingamazingon Mark Zuckerberg's failed negotiations with the FTC to end Meta's antitrust case

just ban all acquisitions and stop the charades. all acquisitions will be anti competitive if they succeed anyway

amazingamazingon I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

Agreed. Let’s do that too.

amazingamazingon I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

Yes. There are plenty of great public universities.

amazingamazingon I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

Public Money going to private schools.

amazingamazingon I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

You’re misunderstanding - I’m saying it should be only going to public universities, not private.

amazingamazingon I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

> only state-operated universities should get government funding

Yes.

> Furthermore, none of this has to do with an ideological take on "private universities and public funds". This is about Trump controlling the speech and behavior of every institution he can, through defunding and through blackmail.

That is bad too, yes.

amazingamazingon I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

What do churches have to do with this article or my comment? Do churches receive billions of funding from the government?

amazingamazingon I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

Private universities, yes. Public colleges can receive the funding that would've otherwise gone to private colleges.

amazingamazingon I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

Public colleges can monopolize the research funded with public money.

amazingamazingon I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

Private colleges shouldn't be taking public money to begin with. Hopefully this ends with colleges having their (private college) tax exempt status revoked. Anyone who's been to Massachusetts knows how much real estate Harvard (and MIT, and BU, and Boston College, etc, etc.) owns. Why should they be tax exempt?

End it now.

Also, Trump's demands are silly and not even internally consistent.

amazingamazingon Meilisearch – search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search

I wish these had pluggable backends separate from the actual implementation of indices so you could use your own store, rather than have to sync constantly. The performance would likely be worse, but at least you don't have to worry about staleness when rehydrating...

amazingamazingon My imaginary children aren't using your streaming service

lol unless you pirate it’ll never be cheaper than Netflix

amazingamazingon My imaginary children aren't using your streaming service

For Netflix I deleted mine by clicking the pencil and then remove.

amazingamazingon America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

I think we’d agree that trump is maga, but is every voter for trump?

amazingamazingon America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

It’s still generalization even if it’s about people in your community…

If I talk about people in Brooklyn broadly is it not a generalization because it’s my community? lol

No wonder political discourse is completely broken.

amazingamazingon America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

I’ve observed that generalizations are usually wrong. There are plenty of MAGA people who care about the environment, and there are indeed MAGA people who couldn’t care less too.

It’s also strange to single out MAGA on cognitive dissonance- everyone, regardless of political affiliation has it.

At the end of the day blame the two party system. There are hundreds of thousands of people who voted for Obama and Trump, Biden and then Trump again. Let that sink in.

amazingamazingon Doge using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say

He's a SGE - which is time limited, and needs no approval.

amazingamazingon What if we taxed advertising?

not really. you could argue that if you're 2-3 feet from a monitor the text on the bottom of a full screen HN page takes more of your vision than a billboard 500ft away.

amazingamazingon Doge using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say

everything you're saying is correct, and folks should contact their representatives, particularly if those are republicans, to share their concerns.

amazingamazingon Doge using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say

it's not a gotcha - it's just that what you're saying is already how it is for most of the judicial branch, so it's not really a big deal.