Is there actually a need to? Does ingested fluoride do anything that toothpaste fluoride doesn’t do?

Yes

I agree. Mass all the way. It’s especially complicated when the liquids are viscous and stick to your measuring vessel.

The only time volume is permitted is if it’s too light for a typical kitchen scale to measure.

Language is funny like that, isn’t it.

A single vote shouldn’t “matter” in the sense that no single person’s vote should have a huge effect on the outcome of the election. But every vote should matter in the sense that every vote should have a small effect on the outcome and that effect should be guaranteed for every vote that was cast.

One of the biggest challenges when creating something new is in not knowing whether or not it’s possible. Once you know, you can just keep pouring resources into it and know with near certainty that you’ll eventually hit your goal. Since the US already has so many other tools for avoiding a nuclear strike, there’s no reason to publicise a new one. Keep it for when the other tools fail, or else everyone else will also have it and you lose your advantage before you could use it.

I think you may have forgotten some of the context when you responded. We already have a consensus among experts that IQ isn’t intelligence. That’s not up for debate anymore. The question is whether or not intelligence can be measured, and the semantic question of defining intelligence is very important here. You can’t answer “how do we measure X?” without first defining what “X” is.

You would first need to define intelligence before you can measure it. We’re still nowhere near any kind of agreement on that first step.

I also apparently have high IQ according to online tests and my mind still glazes over conversations even when it’s a topic that I’m supposedly an expert on. I know all the words. If you were then down and I read them, I’ll be able to make perfect sense of them. But a real time conversation? Forget it.

On lead-acid, yeah. It was a fun time for all.

They list party affiliation on the ballot under the names.

The problem seems to be in treating all photographs as art and thinking about what the camera is doing at all. I’ve been filming so much of my every day life since my kid was born and it’s never gotten in the way of actually being present. Sure, the videos are often pointed off to the side and very shaky, and the subject may not even be in frame at all, but it still sufficiently captures the moment to be worthwhile. We take these videos to preserve memories, not for whatever artistic value they may have.

And it allows users to create their own one-off objects that they need rather than a corporation creating an immense surplus of parts the majority of which will never reach consumer hands and will end up in a landfill.

This is key. You can 3D print things to fit your exact needs. Mass produced injection molded plastic is only cheap because of the mass production. Molds are expensive. That means they necessarily have to produce a lot more than people need and market them to people who don’t actually need the item in order to make up for the upfront cost.

Yes, because they still allow you to spend your money elsewhere if a new storefront appears on the market. Epic is actively preventing that.

Maybe you can expand a bit on what you think the scientists did wrong?

I think at this point, it would be more economical to distill the water than to burn up contaminants.

Here in Canada, it’s half the cost for rice. I don’t imagine it’s that different in the US (at least, pre-tariffs). Assuming 2500Calories per day, I can get a year’s worth of Calories from rice for about 500CAD while it would cost me 1k CAD for the same on soda (calculated based on $1/2L of Crush cream soda).

No, see, you start with the assumption that everything is zero-sum, then you look at the other guy to see suffering and conclude that you must therefore be winning.

So what would be the reasonable stance in your opinion?

Make them bid for their place on the queue!

If you’re wealthy enough, you can. Otherwise, all your time is going to be spent working (not through producing art) to make ends meet and resting so you can do it all over again the next day.