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Well no, many of them will have only decided they have a problem with fluoride now that Dear Leaders proxy in the FDA has decided it's a problem. And if you think for one minute the pharmaceutical companies won't all rush out new fluoride free versions of their existing toothpaste brands to try to get a chunk of those morons money you haven't been paying attention to corporate America for the last century.

Key word there is sane.As we saw with the last election there is a sizable chunk of the US population that that label doesn't apply to.

Fluoride in toothpaste does help as well but it only does so much, and yes some toothpaste brands also don't include fluoride. To get the most out of fluoridated toothpaste you need to pair it with a better diet. Most Americans eat a diet that's incredibly heavy in sugars and carbs as compared to Europe. That's part of the reason why many European countries found little benefit to adding fluoride to their drinking water, their rates of tooth decay were already significantly less than in the US due mostly to dietary differences.

There are two ways to prevent tooth decay. First is the easy way which is to put fluoride in the drinking water. It's easy and protects everyone, but particularly the poorer segments of the population that might struggle with things like preventative dentist appointments.

The second way is the hard way which is to modify your diet to avoid foods high in sugars and carbs and to prefer more proteins and fiber. This is the approach some European countries take.

If you do neither you will get significantly increased rates of tooth decay.

Save time and just classify them all as Trumpgate. Basically spans the entirety of 2016 to 2028 (and if we're in the worst possible timeline long after that as well). Trump was already one of the worst presidents in recent memory, but now he's shooting for the worst of all time. He's going to go down as the president that either destroyed the US or nearly did. At minimum I'm expecting him to be remembered as the cause of the second great depression as well as a significant contributor to instability and war in Europe and Asia (I would include the middle east as well, but that's pretty much business as usual there).

Teams meetings aren't really that much worse than Zoom, it's mostly minor gripes, although there are quite a few of those. The Teams chat client on the other hand is an absolute garbage fire that's significantly worse than Slack, Discord, or pretty much anything up to and arguably including IRC.

An organization , "team", channel, and chat are confusing as hell, that breakdown does not in any way align with the way communication works in a large organization. Why is there so little configuration available for notification settings? Why can't I completely silence or ignore a "team", channel, or chat? Why do I not receive notifications half the time for the things I actually want to be notified about? Why aren't there threads or at least a sensible and easy to follow "reply to" option? Why can't anyone seem to agree on the correct way to organize things? Half our groups are creating gigantic "teams" that include half the company, while the other half are creating shared channels nobody knows about. Both options suck.

That painting looks a lot better than the actual person. No idea what Trump is complaining about, the artist did him a huge favor.

Well it's kind of both. While I agree that is a goal it's ultimately about hoarding wealth to them. Power is wealth and wealth is power. The only reason they care about the peasants is because control over them ensures they can continue to harvest wealth and that nobody can become wealthier. Their goal isn't any specific amount of wealth but rather they treat it as a game they're competing in. They don't care if they have a million dollars or a hundred trillion as long as nobody else has more.

Everything they do is in service to acquiring more wealth for themselves and denying wealth to others including the accumulation of power. They'll spend money to acquire power but only if that power then allows for the accumulation of more money. That's their current play with the US government. They're destroying the US in order to carve it up and add it to their personal hoard of wealth.

Different groups, different motivations, but they're headed in the same direction more or less so they're working together. Trump is working to install himself as a dictator under orders from Putin. He wants to be for the US what Lukashenko is for Belarus. Ultimately he'll be Putin's puppet but he'll largely have free reign within the US which is the only thing he cares about. He's destroying all the US soft power and doing everything he can to turn all the US allies against it. Domestically he's painting targets on the backs of as many minorities as he can in order to keep the useful idiots that elected him distracted.

Musk meanwhile is working to establish an oligarchy and to steal or destroy as much of the US government as he can manage. Ultimately his goals are fairly transparent as he's motivated entirely by naked greed. Since his efforts hurt US foreign relations as much as the domestic situation he's a useful tool to Trump in his efforts to neuter the US for Putin.

Then you've got the Christian nationalists in the GOP that don't really care about what's going on as long as they're allowed to trample all over the first amendment and declare Christianity as the official US religion with all the associated bigotry and discrimination. Since that plays to Trump's efforts to distract his supporters he's perfectly fine with it, but likely keeping a close eye on that group lest any of them think about usurping his crown, particularly when he still hasn't really gotten to go full dictator yet.

They killed me with an IPO. How weird is that?

Can't stop the signal.

South east here and yeah same. The overwhelming majority of my coworkers couldn't be farther from the techbro stereotypes and most of them tend towards the progressive side of the spectrum.

Every democracy in the world should be issuing travel warnings for the US.

You're assuming a single rational actor. The current US government is neither rational nor unified in policy. Whether someone gets in or not is down to the whims of individual ICE agents and whether they're detained or not is down to the whims of individual ICE agents, so you get one reasonable guy who says "sure, come on in", and then you get one xenophobe who says "need to get all these damn foreigners out of our country" and then you have this situation.

Normally you have a sane leadership setting and enforcing uniform policies. The current leadership is entirely focused on generating sound bites and demolishing everything within reach. Thus individual agents have been handed almost complete authority with almost no oversight.

Maybe, possibly, some day. Shit or get off the pot. Stop threatening consequences and actually do something for once.

Soda can that looks like it has BOBOB or something written on it. It was a soda brand (that I think is now defunct) called Surge. As for why it was done that's both more complicated and stupid. In many cases brands are obscured because studios tried to extort payments from their owners for "advertising" and the company refused. In other cases companies may have requested to have their product removed due to the content of the show or movie, although usually it's the former reason.

Exactly. The problem is he ignores the court orders and literally nothing happens. They're completely toothless. I'm not seeing a way this ends that doesn't trigger a constitutional crisis one way or another. Either Federal Marshals trigger a showdown by chucking officials into jail for violating orders, Trump triggers a showdown by having somebody arrest the judges, or judges keep issuing increasingly pointless rulings proving that the checks and balances were never real.

In a sane timeline the moment Trump violated the first court order he would have been impeached and summarily convicted. With the Republicans in control though they're not going to act either at all or until it's far far too late and Trump has successfully transitioned fully into the dictator he dreams of being.

Nope! We're in late stage capitalism now where the game is a race to see which mega-corp can merger and acquisition itself into being the only company in existence where they'll be free to squeeze every last cent out of their customers slaves.

Now that they've got their puppets into place in all the government offices that could actually prevent us descending into the plot of every cyberpunk dystopian story ever written, they're going to milk it for everything it's worth, and the room temperature IQ morons that voted them into power will cheer their enslavement every step of the way because Reagan convinced them all that government regulations are the real problem.

Microsoft's requirements for Windows 11 include a 1GHz or faster CPU with at least two cores, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage,

All of this is no problem and essentially any computer manufactured in the last couple decades can meet these requirements. They're effectively irrelevant for this discussion.

Secure Boot capability, and TPM 2.0 compatibility.

This is the problem right here. Pretty much every last computer you hear about that isn't compatible it's one or both of these, almost always the TPM 2.0 module.

That of course is if the reason you aren't "upgrading" is because the hardware isn't supported. For a great many of us our hardware is supported, we just don't want all the bullshit anti-features Microsoft has crammed into Windows 11. Windows 10 was already bad enough with it's constant telemetry spyware, that annoying Cortana garbage shoehorned in anywhere they could manage, the absolute atrocity that they turned the start menu search function into, and the annoying Teams and OneDrive integrations that randomly reinstalled and re-enabled themselves after updates.

Then MS went and had to cram in even more spyware by way of their horrible copilot garbage. All for what? What are we getting with 11 that's better than 10? What feature justifies that upgrade? Nothing, that's the answer. There's no reason at all that 11 needed to be made.

In other words it was the sales department doing what they always do, pulling complete bullshit out of their ass and then expecting the engineering team to deliver it.