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2012: https://fluoridealert.org/content/50-reasons/

Highly recommend visiting the link for details about each point and references (it is not that long), here is a summary, don't comment if you haven't visited the link:

1) Fluoride is the only chemical added to water for the purpose of medical treatment. 2) Fluoridation is unethical. 3) The dose cannot be controlled. 4) The fluoride goes to everyone regardless of age, health or vulnerability. 5) People now receive fluoride from many other sources besides water. 6) Fluoride is not an essential nutrient. 7) The level in mothers’ milk is very low. 9) No health agency in fluoridated countries is monitoring fluoride exposure or side effects. 10) There has never been a single randomized controlled trial to demonstrate fluoridation’s effectiveness or safety. 11) Benefit is topical not systemic. 12) Fluoridation is not necessary. 13) Fluoridation’s role in the decline of tooth decay is in serious doubt. 14) NIH-funded study on individual fluoride ingestion and tooth decay found no significant correlation. 15) Tooth decay is high in low-income communities that have been fluoridated for years. 16) Tooth decay does not go up when fluoridation is stopped. 17) Tooth decay was coming down before fluoridation started. 18) The studies that launched fluoridation were methodologically flawed. 19) Children are being over-exposed to fluoride. 20) The highest doses of fluoride are going to bottle-fed babies. 21) Dental fluorosis may be an indicator of wider systemic damage. 22) Fluoride may damage the brain. 23) Fluoride may lower IQ. 24) Fluoride may cause non-IQ neurotoxic effects. 25) Fluoride affects the pineal gland. 26) Fluoride affects thyroid function. 27) Fluoride causes arthritic symptoms. 28) Fluoride damages bone. 29) Fluoride may increase hip fractures in the elderly. 30) People with impaired kidney function are particularly vulnerable to bone damage. 31) Fluoride may cause bone cancer (osteosarcoma). 32) Proponents have failed to refute the Bassin-Osteosarcoma study. 33) Fluoride may cause reproductive problems. 34) Some individuals are highly sensitive to low levels of fluoride as shown by case studies and double blind studies. 35) Other subsets of population are more vulnerable to fluoride’s toxicity. 36) There is no margin of safety for several health effects. 37) Low-income families penalized by fluoridation. 38) Black and Hispanic children are more vulnerable to fluoride’s toxicity. 39) Minorities are not being warned about their vulnerabilities to fluoride. 40) Tooth decay reflects low-income not low-fluoride intake. 41) The chemicals used to fluoridate water are not pharmaceutical grade. 42) The silicon fluorides have not been tested comprehensively. 43) The silicon fluorides may increase lead uptake into children’s blood. 44) Fluoride may leach lead from pipes, brass fittings and soldered joints. 45) Key health studies have not been done. 46) Endorsements do not represent scientific evidence. 47) Review panels hand-picked to deliver a pro-fluoridation result. 48) Many scientists oppose fluoridation. 49) Proponents usually refuse to defend fluoridation in open debate. 50) Proponents use very dubious tactics to promote fluoridation.

2012: https://fluoridealert.org/content/50-reasons/

Highly recommend visiting the link for details about each point an references (it is not that long), here is a summary, don't comment if you haven't visited the link:

1) Fluoride is the only chemical added to water for the purpose of medical treatment. 2) Fluoridation is unethical. 3) The dose cannot be controlled. 4) The fluoride goes to everyone regardless of age, health or vulnerability. 5) People now receive fluoride from many other sources besides water. 6) Fluoride is not an essential nutrient. 7) The level in mothers’ milk is very low. 9) No health agency in fluoridated countries is monitoring fluoride exposure or side effects. 10) There has never been a single randomized controlled trial to demonstrate fluoridation’s effectiveness or safety. 11) Benefit is topical not systemic. 12) Fluoridation is not necessary. 13) Fluoridation’s role in the decline of tooth decay is in serious doubt. 14) NIH-funded study on individual fluoride ingestion and tooth decay found no significant correlation. 15) Tooth decay is high in low-income communities that have been fluoridated for years. 16) Tooth decay does not go up when fluoridation is stopped. 17) Tooth decay was coming down before fluoridation started. 18) The studies that launched fluoridation were methodologically flawed. 19) Children are being over-exposed to fluoride. 20) The highest doses of fluoride are going to bottle-fed babies. 21) Dental fluorosis may be an indicator of wider systemic damage. 22) Fluoride may damage the brain. 23) Fluoride may lower IQ. 24) Fluoride may cause non-IQ neurotoxic effects. 25) Fluoride affects the pineal gland. 26) Fluoride affects thyroid function. 27) Fluoride causes arthritic symptoms. 28) Fluoride damages bone. 29) Fluoride may increase hip fractures in the elderly. 30) People with impaired kidney function are particularly vulnerable to bone damage. 31) Fluoride may cause bone cancer (osteosarcoma). 32) Proponents have failed to refute the Bassin-Osteosarcoma study. 33) Fluoride may cause reproductive problems. 34) Some individuals are highly sensitive to low levels of fluoride as shown by case studies and double blind studies. 35) Other subsets of population are more vulnerable to fluoride’s toxicity. 36) There is no margin of safety for several health effects. 37) Low-income families penalized by fluoridation. 38) Black and Hispanic children are more vulnerable to fluoride’s toxicity. 39) Minorities are not being warned about their vulnerabilities to fluoride. 40) Tooth decay reflects low-income not low-fluoride intake. 41) The chemicals used to fluoridate water are not pharmaceutical grade. 42) The silicon fluorides have not been tested comprehensively. 43) The silicon fluorides may increase lead uptake into children’s blood. 44) Fluoride may leach lead from pipes, brass fittings and soldered joints. 45) Key health studies have not been done. 46) Endorsements do not represent scientific evidence. 47) Review panels hand-picked to deliver a pro-fluoridation result. 48) Many scientists oppose fluoridation. 49) Proponents usually refuse to defend fluoridation in open debate. 50) Proponents use very dubious tactics to promote fluoridation.

Make him do some level design, for example he can create Doom levels.

It can also be paper/board games if he is into it.

He could make some rules variations to an existing game.

Nothing alarming here.

If he has peoples to play with, create a story, add some rules, play it with the body or lego or whatever.

That is already an issue with technological progress. Peoples protesting because machines are more efficient and removing jobs. The issue being the profit of increased tech not being shared correctly among humanity.

This issue has not been solved. I am glad there are other peoples becoming aware of it with the rise of IA.

Work and salaries ? Like from their own pocket ? No. That is the business money. Wasted. Time, attention, of peoples wasted.

That is the same absurd logic as for not to replace low qualified human physical work by machines (self checkout in supermarket).

Having less jobs due to technology or less stupid work should be seen as good for humanity.

Perhaps, instead, of imagining some stupid jobs and occupation, so peoples can be paid and survive. We coul reduce the total workhours of working people, so that senseful work would employ more peoples. And with no changes to the salary ofc.

I am not so good with english, so let me rephrase it. What would happen to humanity if 90 % went jobless because -let's imagine- robots and IA would efficientely replace us. Would 90 % be condemned to die in the cold when there is abondance ? Because they have no job and a 0.00001 % "owns" the robots ?

Our current system cannot work with abondance.

I agree with you. What come to my mind, is that GPT using private data to learn, if given back to (any) customer, you would have an indirect "open source everything".

Maybe it depicts a part of this galaxy history. I like to believe that work of art that touches us, stay in our memory, has some truth into it that fascinate us.

We are strongly led to believe we are alone in the universe, and that we are the first human like specie in the whole universe and our solar system to ever have existed. Believing otherwise is pure heresy. What is left for us to contact part of the world that we know exist but that "can't be real because that would be heresy" ?

Science-fiction, fantasy.

' Just ask ChatGPT '

Yeah I heard that from coworkers. Lazy mind, yes. Read the doc, look one example, check one stackoverflow link and you will know how you make a caroussel UI component...

And please do not use it to try understanding some logic in your codebase. Try even less giving him a small snippet of the codebase, thinking it will magically understand what it does and correctly imagine what all the missing related code of snippet is and does. ( ! )

Most of the time I just wanna scream "use you brain". By the time he wrote his first sentence to the IA, I've resolved the issue, or at least have a clue. It is really infuriating because what more is that ChatGPT need a -minimum- precise request to be expected to give a useful response. When the request from the user is blatantly inprecise kinda like "help, thing doesn't work", I just feel bad for the IA having to deal with terrible communication, and for myself for having to deal with that coworker. Thanksfully when I am the one being asked help, I know the project, can look into the code, and coworkers can show me the issue instead of failing to explain it.

Yeah that is why I like programming, computers only accept precise communication, it is not "move that div on the left" but "move div by id X to the left of itself" 120px over 200ms with a linear speed".

Only once ChatGPT did better than my mind or google : someone was searching the name of a bank starting wirh the letter "o".

Your statement is correct, google replace a lot of my memory, maybe someone could call me lazy too.

Maybe ChatGPT will have his use for me one day.

Thinking about banning the forum instead of trying understand the stories, the pain, how we could help is stupid.

I feel like again "peoples" wabt to remove the red flare instead of going for the root cause. Because it is much easier. This is very present for mental health. Ignore the cause, just fet some surgery and a lot of medicine until it get worse and you die. Change you way of living, explore past traumas, question your strongest beliefs ? Hell no. Better ban a forum and call it fixed.

"Mental illness" is also a problem in France.

I recommend you check out reddit r/LateStageCapitalism .

There is so much to be said about how fuck up our world is, I don't wanna start or i'll write a brick.

Elon Musk said recently that school is a joke, and that he do home schooling. Well, he is not the first one to have said it, but he is damn right. Idriss Aberkane has some very good conferences on the subject.

In USA, compared to France, you can add the issue of student debt (slavery). And the city layout being made for cars, public transportation or bikes are scarce, meaning young ones have to heavely rely on parents to do any activitie.

Oh... and your president is not just bad and malevolent, like in France, he is also senile. But like in France, a lot of citizen have voted for him.

Finnaly, who is really sick here ?

"It is not a sign of good mental health to be well adapted to a sick society."

Deck.of.cards 3 years ago

So.. that's just a card moving simulator ? I am missing something crazy or why does this have that many points on Hacker news ?

We just don't want to freely give our data to US competitors companies. Is that hard to understand ? Do you think US company would reveal their blueprints and source code to the rest of the world ?

A phobia is an irrational fear, this is a rational fear.

About how EU treat engineers, this is a separate issue, in France at least, there is the belief that advancing in your career (=get paid more) means becoming manager.

You can keep your insects and lab meat for yourself. I think they are doing a great job banning lab meat and insects flour... If they really did. Because last time I checked I read they were just displaying insects flour on a special shelf, not a ban.

It is neither "antiquated" nor "idiotic", I value good, tasty and healthy food, in that regards I think Italians and French are alike.

Making "non-standard" changes [...] ressembling an long archeological expedition...

This. This is how I felt trying to understand legacy core code. I kind of like that though. The idea of being able to improve/rewrite a decrepit piece of code excite me. But you won't be productive, and getting a (somewhat) complete and precise understanding of what it does and doesn't, take a lot of extra time.

I've bought and seen crap with good reviews. On Amazon.

You have a good chance to end with some chinese crap if you rely only on Amazon.

On some product, I prefer finding a specialized seller (that isn't dropshipping). Or find a real blog (tends to be hard with all those fakes websites listing top 100 products, but they nmask hemselves when all products are chinese crap on Amazon). Reddit also work to get advice from peoples.

What's more. I make research on the compagny producing the thing. LinkedIn helps with that. Only commercials on a tech product ? Get out.

There is not only personalities like Trump, peoples like Silvano Trotta, Christian Perronne, Astrid Stuckelberger, Christine Cotton, should also be unbanned if he do things right. All theses peoples have switched to Telegram, but they might come back on twitter if Musk is serious about free speech and unban them. With their followers...

How about making changes to the interface html structure/ids and same for the api. Will break any program using it, but won't bother users. Now record what accounts are silenced by that, do it multiples times and ypu have an idea who is a bot ?

I take notes of (almost) everything I work on. What links I went to, screenshot or snippets of relevant information, current thought. The structure is simple, a folder for the project, and one .md file per day.

It helps me think by writing thing down, free brain memory space and reduces browser tabs number. It gives me an history of what I tried put earlier to solve my issue. It also give me something to say if anybody ask what I have been doing these past weeks or months (employer, recruiter). Finally, if I ever get a similar bug, I have a good chance to find some help from my past self with ctrl-shift-f. I write my notes with webstorm.

I wish there was some tools like Unity animation panel or Behavior Tree plugin in Unity.

Tools that would integrate well with any code in JS. Maybe you would define blocks with code, and wire the things up in the IDE but with a graphical interface. Kind of like how draw.io is integrated in Jetbrains IDE (and certainly in VSCode too).

Keep it mind that you cannot use github as free host for anything.

"GitHub Pages is not intended for or allowed to be used as a free web-hosting service to run your online business, e-commerce site, or any other website that is primarily directed at either facilitating commercial transactions or providing commercial software as a service (SaaS)."

School is quite wrong on teaching "how life works", school push us to be competitive and individualist. While real life is much more abput cooperation. School (at least in France) tell us beeing wrong is bad. But making mistakes is essential part of learning.

I do dream about school sometimes too.

But for me, it is speaking up to the teacher (telling him he is wrong), or confidently not caring about what the teacher is ordering the class to do.

Or event confidently deciding not to go to school today.

I can earn a living with my programming skills, I have 0 reasons to endure school bullshit anymore.

20×10% 4 years ago

I know the story, but still find myself smiling everytime I read it.

Like lying by omission, or relaying some false news, and apologizing a day or two later (discretly when the harm is already done).

It is pretty obvious our media (at least in France) serve some agenda when you look at their finances. The rich guys that detain theses medias know how to make money. Meaning it is worth keeping these medias despite what it cost them each year.

And why would you keep an unprofitable business ? Unless it serves them in another manner...

But it is fine killing 14k peoples in the Donbass over 8 years ?

And it is fine killing russians for you I suppose ? Because "they are the bad guys".

And maybe you are okay to kill peoples in middle east, because they need "democraty", they have "terrorists", and their leader is a "dictator".

The very core of who we are ? Brainwashed. That's what we are.

Putin tells Europe: if you want gas then open Nord Stream 2

"President Vladimir Putin on Friday denied Russia had anything to do with Europe's energy crisis, saying that if the European Union wanted more gas it should lift sanctions preventing the opening of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Speaking to reporters after the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Uzbekistan, Putin blamed what he called "the green agenda" for the energy crisis, and insisted that Russia would fulfil its energy obligations.

"The bottom line is, if you have an urge, if it's so hard for you, just lift the sanctions on Nord Stream 2, which is 55 billion cubic metres of gas per year, just push the button and everything will get going," Putin said."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-putin-says-m...