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The UK largely doesn't fluoridate, so this is one of the (few) areas where the US actually does better than the UK. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country

The UK does generally have better tooth health in the grand scheme of things, but it's actually pretty close, and the US is still really high on the list.

https://www.yongeeglintondental.com/blog/healthy-primary-teeth/

Without checking, I suspect the US's slightly higher cavity rate is more down to sugar consumption than received dental care.

It basically says you can't add anything to water except for "water quality additives" and has a fuzzy definitely of water quality additive.

403.859 Prohibited acts.—The following acts and the causing thereof are prohibited and are violations of this act: (8) The use of any additive in a public water system whichdoes not meet the definition of a water quality additive as defined in s. 403.852(19)

And then 403.852(19) has

“Water quality additive” means any chemical, additive, or substance that is used in a public water system for the purpose of: (a) Meeting or surpassing primary or secondary drinking water standards; (b) Preventing, reducing, or removing contaminants; or (c) Improving water quality.

Bold are the additions. The "primary and secondary drinking water standards" are legally defined terms where the EPA sets limits on maximum allowable amounts of stuff in water.

https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/how-epa-regulates-drinking-water-contaminants-documents

Personally, I would argue that fluoride is added to water for the purpose of "improving water quality" because water that protects people's teeth is higher quality than water that doesn't. If I were someone from a municipality whose job was ensuring water quality, I would read this as still allowing the addition of fluoride. If anyone doesn't like that, let them try to prove in a court that fluoridated water is lower quality.

It's salsa roja, salsa verde, salsa fresca, and any other fruit (mango is common) based condiment that you'd eat with chips. Salsa de mole, we just call mole. Other types of Mexican sauce like what you'd put over enchiladas, just gets called "enchilada sauce".

It's a common thing with loan words to have them only applied to the subset of things that were originally imported and called by that name. No one out of Italy, for example would call pizza bianca "pizza" if you gave them a piece and asked what it is (I'm talking about roman pizza bianca, not "white pizza" being back translated).

Sometimes the opposite happens, like "curry" being derived from a specific thing in a specific part of India, being applied by the British (and everywhere else they exported it) to basically any saucy Indian food.

To elaborate on the price, those pods have ~11g of coffee in them (according to the first link I clicked on). For a (north american) standard size cup of coffee (350 ml), I use about double that. You can either chose to have a much smaller coffee, or a regular size coffee that tastes bad.

For the same price per gram of grocery store brand pods, you can get really good freshly roasted, single origin, free trade, etc. beans.

Tamara Rubin is a grifter with no expertise who bought an XRF gun to use to scan random objects as fodder for her blog where she gets money from affiliate links. Her wikipedia page talks about a few of her financial crimes. I wouldn't worry anything she puts out.

Reject bartering, embrace gift economy

I just do not know what to think about outfits like this. On the one hand, it's hilarious that they are using the exact same compound that is released by fossil fuel companies, so any attempts to regulate its release will effect fossil fuel burners more than them. Some states have already banned the intentional release of anything designed for positive effects on the climate, though (i think Tennessee was the first).

On the other hand, the carbon credit economy is largely a sham and a fake fix for our woes, and only really serves to facilitate companies to wash their hands of environmental impacts. Solar geoengineering introduced to this system is destined for failure as well, I believe. We may need to resort to solar geoengineering to preserve what we can of our world, but it will have to be through international cooperation and study combined with reduction of carbon pollution, not by two dudes in a fly-by-night operation releasing balloons.

he had used gender-neutral names to the point where it was never clear, but also didn't matter anyway.

He almost does that. He uses a lot of made-up scifi names that aren't obviously gendered, but then point out that the character is male.

He does get a lot better over time, though.

Yeah, I think he actually admitted that he didn't really know any women when he first started writing until he met and then married his wife, so he avoided writing them. It is weird though cause his writing style (from what ive read) is not very character focused, anyway, so a lot of his male characters could easily just be declared female and no one would spot the difference.

Yeah, I think this is the most reasonable approach. Everyone else is suggesting that falling on your sword is the first line of defense, and it really shouldn't be.

If you are the attorney general, and the president asks you to fire someone prosecuting him, sure, resign.

If you are just some person trying to get by, shooting yourself in the foot isn't going to help anyone. If you refuse to do a job, and they just hire someone else to do it, you've only really lost a lot at the cost of a small moral victory immediately rendered nil.

Not to get too utilitarian, but the ultimate goal should be to have the best outcome for everyone, not to just make the first decision that seems to be right.

There's a saying about fascism "Do not obey in advance", and the idea is that during the rise of fascism, the fascists don't actually have to make people do what they want. Lots of people comply with their goals well before being forced to. We are seeing many companies eliminating DEI objectives because it's what the fascists want, even though they don't have to.

This could be one of those situations where a frank conversation with the project lead to see if that's what's happening because there is a chance to convince them not to obey in advance. It could also be that the training is going for federal agencies that have been "legally" required to eliminate "gender" from any training materials.

I think it would be foolish to turn down the job without at least establishing that.

Multiple people recommended it to me and wanted my opinion of it, but all I could say was "I'm glad you enjoyed it".

I like a lot of what ive read from him, and he had a lot of views that were ahead of his time (on social issues as well as scientific), but he absolutely could not write women. You could read full length books of his without a single named female character.

the book you HAVE to read to understand why Americans from the flyover states like Trump and why they would vote for him.

It sorta does that, but indirectly, I guess? To me, it was all about what's not in the book. It was marketed as being written from the perspective of "omniscient narrator explaining why those people are the way they are", but really it's more "unreliable narrator explains his worldview".

I read it probably around the same time as you, and it really just made me angry more than anything because basically the whole thesis is "poor people are poor because they are dumb".

The fact that Purdue pharma made a pill that they claimed would last for 12 hours, when it was more like half that, so people had to either take them way more frequently (or take way bigger doses at 12 hours), and then proceeded to sell them to towns in Appalachia by the hundreds per capita is never mentioned.

There's a whole bunch of structural problems that he just breezes by that he probably should recognize (cause I do think he's probably intelligent), but your average person from the region may not. Basically, it's just propaganda.

It's fun irony to try to have a bunch of angsty teens read a book about an angsty teen. I bet it would come across very different to read it as an adult.

The act that they performed this under is the "International Emergency Economic Powers Act" which allows the president to declare a national emergency and take some other actions if there is an:

unusual and extraordinary threat... to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States

It specially says the powers:

may not be exercised for any other purpose

The Powers include:

(1) At the times and to the extent specified in section 1701 of this title, the President may, under such regulations as he may prescribe, by means of instructions, licenses, or otherwise— (A) investigate, regulate, or prohibit— (i) any transactions in foreign exchange, (ii) transfers of credit or payments between, by, through, or to any banking institution, to the extent that such transfers or payments involve any interest of any foreign country or a national thereof, (iii) the importing or exporting of currency or securities, by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; (B) investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit, any acquisition, holding, withholding, use, transfer, withdrawal, transportation, importation or exportation of, or dealing in, or exercising any right, power, or privilege with respect to, or transactions involving, any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; and.[1] (C) when the United States is engaged in armed hostilities or has been attacked by a foreign country or foreign nationals, confiscate any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, of any foreign person, foreign organization, or foreign country that he determines has planned, authorized, aided, or engaged in such hostilities or attacks against the United States; and all right, title, and interest in any property so confiscated shall vest, when, as, and upon the terms directed by the President, in such agency or person as the President may designate from time to time, and upon such terms and conditions as the President may prescribe, such interest or property shall be held, used, administered, liquidated, sold, or otherwise dealt with in the interest of and for the benefit of the United States, and such designated agency or person may perform any and all acts incident to the accomplishment or furtherance of these purposes.

Noticeably absent from that list is tariffs. Under the major questions doctrine, the fact that congress did not specifically delegate that power to the executive branch means that it did not do so.

They actually can't take tariff powers away from him because he doesn't even have tariff powers. He has power over the people who would collect tariffs, and he has instructed them to collect them.

The end result is the same, but I think it's important to keep noting that he can't legally do this.

It's definitely more of a thing now. I think Swift Coffee were the ones that I first started seeing everywhere. They produce their own instant coffee as well as partnering with a lot of roasters. The main difference is that they went for the "quality first" as opposed to nestle, et al, who do super high temperature and pressure extractions followed by spray drying for the cheapest end product.

The downside is that it's really energy intensive, so it costs like 10x the price. I wouldnt drink it as my daily coffee just because of the price, but it definitely does the trick when I'm traveling to a coffee desert or in the woods.

For better or worse, I think the importance of the resume has gone down a little bit over the past few years. There are so many people blasting resumes to 1000 places with LLM generated cover letters that the only resumes that make it to the people with hiring power are through referrals.

To actually answer your question, though, I think a link to a personal website (or LinkedIn if you use it) is nice to give more space to elaborate on work you've done, especially of there are things that are better explained by photos.

For many positions, especially if you have a "foreign sounding" name, it's good to specify if you are a citizen/permanent resident/etc. Companies may or may not be able to sponsor visas, and many positions, depending on the type of work, can only be done by citizens or permanent residents.

It is good to brag about yourself, but definitely avoid making your resume too wordy or long. Even people with really impressive careers will have a 1 page resume because people reviewing them need to be able to see the highlights immediately.

If you have a list of skills, it might make sense to try and be really explicit about how skilled you are with each thing. It's going to be dependent on the job, but for example, if you were listing JMP and R on there, but you spent years on R and only did a class project once with JMP, the company might want to know that. You could put "R (expert)" and "JMP (familiar)" or something like that.

Obviously, you need a job to eat and pay rent, but if someone hires you specifically to do something you are only slightly competent at, it's really a lose-lose.

America in general doesn't regulate the title "engineer" like some countries do. "Professional engineer" is a legal title, but really the only people who get it are civil and structural engineers who need to sign off on blueprints and take legal responsibility for the design. That and engineers at consulting firms who want fancier sounding titles that make a jury trust them more.

brings back a good degree of manufacturing

The idea that manufacturing ever "left" is propaganda. Union factory jobs have gone down, but the US is producing more than ever. They just want to dangle the carrot of good jobs over people who don't realize those jobs have been automated.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2583/industrial-production-historical-chart