You can use your private army to gain currency and other assets by stealing them from other entities. Governments typically don’t like this but if you’re a big enough force they will negotiate.

Discovering your colorblind was a common enough occurrence in our electronics lab (you need to look at colored lines to determine a resistor’s resistance) that they had policies for it.

What’s happened is that there have been tons of conspiracy theorist claims against water fluoridation. These claims are not based on any scientific evidence.

However, valid criticism has also been suppressed and in the process fewer studies have been conducted. The topic has been highly politicized, especially recently.

why can’t we have both?

Because drinking water is a basic need and should not be medicated when it’s not even a great way to apply the medicine.

Note that while the risk of issues from proper dosing is low. Improper dosing can and does occur. Sandy City, Hooper Bay, Richmond to list a few. When you improperly dose community water you’re affecting everyone using the water.

If toothpaste or mouthwash was improperly dosed, it would be mostly spit out and the risk is minimized while also maximizing exposure to the enamel.

much of Western Europe, etc.) will also be more likely to adopt the fluoridation of water.

Citation needed.

Of course, fluoride toothpastes are great, but it’s not the best solution for everywhere.

Why not? Or more specifically, why is this insufficient in the US? Are there studies comparing the efficacies?

There has been many more studies on fluoride, none of which have shown that that the low concentrations of fluoride added to drinking water has any negative health effect.

Again, there have not been any randomized control trials testing the efficacy of fluoride in drinking water compared to other delivery methods.

It depends on the area you’re dealing with. In some countries, it’s more cost effective to put fluoride in the water supply, while in others, fluoride toothpastes are more effective. In Germany, they put fluoride in iodized salt!

Did you just not read my comment? The reason isn’t cost, it’s not that expensive to add fluoride.

The reason is we wouldn’t be adding anything to drinking water if there were better alternatives. If we started again with today’s standards, no scientist would recommend fluoridated drinking water.

Eh the first major study in fluoride, the Grand Rapids study would never hold up to today’s standards. It was not a blind study and cavity detection is subjective.

Also drinking water is a poor way to deliver fluoride. The mechanism of action requires physical contact with your teeth to work. Toothpaste and mouthwash would be a better option and reduce consumption. To my knowledge, there hasn’t been a modern large scale study conducted looking into different delivery methods. We do have some evidence comparing countries that don’t fluoridate but still have low cavity rates.

And while rare, fluoride allergies do exist.

It can also be difficult to dose.

This is Lemmy, the whole point is to be pedantic.

Isn’t it also about Artemis (Lockheed, Boeing, Northrop, and Rocketdyne)?

Are you saying that any company that takes government contracts initially should not be considered a private company? Wouldn’t this apply to all launch providers? Why is SpaceX singled out?

Yeah they were saved early on by NASA’s private commercial development programs. Are you saying NASA should not have implemented these programs? Do you prefer cost plus contracts?

Because it’s not…? They get the contracts because they’re the cheapest option, and these days they make more money through Starlink anyways.

And who else should CRS have gone to? Lockheed Martin and Boeing?

Even to the space crowd, SLS doesn’t really introduce anything new.

But when the Falcon 9 landed, and then the heavy’s dual landing. That was hype.

Probably would’ve been cheaper, faster, and better engineered if they did though. The reason NASA doesn’t do it is PR.

Yeah so the training data is only one part of it (possibly the easiest since you can just buy it). It’s the other components of model training that’s the real secret sauce. And without users it becomes harder and harder to get the feedback to continue training new models.

That’s why all the companies were rushing to get a product out.

You can’t accidentally give a baby shaken baby syndrome. Babies generally enjoy being bounced and tossed, just don’t violently slam them around.

You usually don’t have to memorize too much stuff for mathy subjects. At least when I went to uni we were always allowed cheat sheets.

If you’re the type that can lessen the concepts easily, practice and study might not be as important.

Why would joules help with that?

What if they were all transported into SWAT Cats?

Looks wonderful to walk around.