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Fluoridated water and occasional low-dose supplement tablets are the clear reason why I didn’t have a single major cavity until I was nearly 50, in spite of a lifetime of very haphazard, on-again off-again brushing habits. (yes, I’ve since standardized my brushing!). My parents and other relatives aren’t especially genetically resistant to tooth decay or anything, so I’m pretty sure it was the fluoride that gave me such a cavity-free first five decades. That certainly saved me money, but it saved the public health system even more. Meanwhile I still did my part to keep dentists in business with yearly cleaning and checkups.

yeah and ugh. but tbh we see this wording even from outlets surprisingly far to the left. (of a depressingly right-shifted so-called center, but anyway.)

Proper noun | Logos

• (philosophy) In Ancient Greek philosophy, the rational principle that governs the cosmos.

• (Christianity) The Word of God, which itself has creative power; a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.

• (Christianity) The Word of God as incarnate in Jesus Christ, or as identified with the second person of the Trinity; Jesus; God the Son; Word of God.

This is what I hoped the article was saying they were scrapping 😆

worth a read.

Dammit, Daily Beast, these are not “entitlements”. They are programs Americans were forced to pay into with the guarantee that they would receive proportional benefits.

I think “vast” majority is an overstatement. I realize the vote skewed in his direction among the older generation, but a majority is not a vast majority.

Not too sure America ever had a Justice system, only a money and power driven legal system which in some of its finer moments managed to approximate justice.

pardon the micro issue but I think you mean credible instead of credulous. only trying to help, not criticize.

From what I read today this includes the IRS’s project to let Americans file their taxes for free. I forget the most recent status of it except I think it was already in effect as a pilot project available in certain states and was planned for national accessibility. And obviously there’s been big money pressure to kill that effort.

upvoting for well articulated nuance

I mean… it’s not artificial intelligence no matter how many people continue the trend of inaccurately calling it that. It’s a large language model. It has the ability to write things that look disturbingly close, even sometimes indistinguishable, to actual human writing. There’s no good reason to mistake that for actual intelligence or rationality.