Soggy @ Soggy @lemmy.world

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Smartest? When did Elmo stop being the Muppet equivalent of a kindergartener?

We also had Vault.

But there's no reason to avoid them. Flouride in water is safe at the regulated levels and has a measurable impact on dental health, just like enriched milk safely reduced the incidence of rickets in children. If you need pure water you can buy distilled gallons but clean, healthful tap water is a modern marvel.

Because it's easy. We enrich lots of stuff for public health. Breakfast cereals have tons of extra nutrients, vitamin d is put in milk, white rice and flour are supplemented to offset the loss compared to whole-grain. It's mostly done in response to lots of children in poverty getting sick.

Or Vitamin D in milk. Make Black Kids Get Rickets Again!

A lazy ideology, appeal to Eurosupremacy, and factual incorrectness all at once!

Andrew Johnson would like a word.

The good parts of this country are weighed down by the catastrophically shit parts.

East rural, Really East rural, Coast rural, or South rural?

Aeration is a known factor in cocktails, it also requires some kind of protein or structure in the liquid to hold onto air for more than a few moments. Slurping a bit as you sip will impact the taste more than shake/stir (assuming equal dilution, temperature, and clarity) The other factor bruise-truthers trot out is Volatile Organic Compounds and the "top notes" evaporating out or oxidizing and I'm sure that would happen if you left a neat glass out on the counter for half an hour, but ten seconds of tumbling is nothing compared to the distillation and bottling process.

It's like the "espresso dies in thirty seconds" thing that's actually an efficiency training benchmark that got misinterpreted at some point. The chemistry just isn't that fast.

I prefer mine a bit sweeter. I also prefer a coupe so I guess my champagne tastes are just two hundred years old.

This isn't a real thing.

What's subjective about supporting an authoritarian dictatorship, sexual assault, or believing someone is of lesser value because of their demographic?

Because I thought he was lazy.

Alright smartass, tell me how I could have convinced millions of Americans thousands of miles away to vote different.

That's one level of the divide, yes, but it's reinforced by the rest of the structure. "Bioregionalism" suggests that cultures are more stable when they are contained within bioregions of climate and geography. People are more invested in what they perceive as their local environment and they are more likely to "feel heard" by others with that same stake. The current political borders, arbitrary as they are, push people to seek that connection in either protective isolation or a broader social identity.

It's a relatively new idea (1970s) as far as political science goes but I find it compelling.

The other problem is that we let a right-wing propaganda apparatus operate unchallenged that began with the Nixon fallout and accelerated with Rupert Murdoch's creation of Fox News in 1996 and that's gonna take a few generations to unfuck no matter what else is going on.

I just recognize that the enemy is a well-connected and near-infinitely-resourced christofascist propaganda movement, and there's no point in making a political or literal martyr of myself when I can support my family and friends through the current and future uncertainty.

I didn't vote for him, but I expected his first term to be appoiting halfway competent people to run everything so he could fuck around and take the credit. I doubt I was alone.

The US shouldn't even continue to exist as the single entity it is today. I think five to eight large states is probably ideal. Cascadia, Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, New England, the South, the Great Lakes region, and something needs to be done with the Alaska, Hawaii, and our various non-state territories like Puerto Rico and American Samoa.

It's simply too big and diverse to effectively govern.

Easier to hold the mountain passes than march on the capital. My elected representatives are already some of the better ones and anything more drastic needs large, organized groups and actions beyond my skill or resources.

Really, I'm banking on this fascist regime eating itself or outside help in the civil war.