Rookwood

joined 11 months ago
[–] Rookwood 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Fluoridated toothpaste is more effective than drinking water. The fluoride works by direct contact with the enamel. Another reason it doesn't make sense to put it in drinking water.

[–] Rookwood 12 points 14 hours ago (18 children)

Fluoridated water doesn't seem to make a difference on cavities. It does have neurological effects. It's simply not acutely fatal. It's already in our toothpaste. We don't need it in our municipal water supply and the majority of developed countries don't.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/fluoridated-drinking-water/

[–] Rookwood 15 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Dems didn't run on climate change. And also just simple doomerism doesn't motivate people. They would have needed a solution, which the Dems aren't willing to offer.

[–] Rookwood 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are you talking about? Do you think convenience is free?

[–] Rookwood 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Obama took office during the Great Recession and rebuilt the economy. Biden took office during COVID and rebuilt the economy. (I know you're going to try to argue with me on that, so I will just say that we recovered faster than any other developed nation before you do.) You're kinda dense if you think that as soon as a president from another party enters office it would affect the economy so much as these events did...

[–] Rookwood 10 points 3 days ago

Propaganda. Lack of education. There's a reason they want to defund public schools. They're not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. :)

[–] Rookwood 2 points 3 days ago

Think of Lemmy instances like a Discord server. You are joining a community. You are not joining up to a centralized corporate website. There are many lemmy instances. Shop around. lemmy.ml are Marxist-Leninist. It's what the .ml stands for. If that's not for you, find another instance.

[–] Rookwood 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's not like you can afford anything else.

[–] Rookwood 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Those salaries are not competitive. Not that they should be because executive pay is out of control, but they are also in no way extravagant and possibly too low or at least the bare minimum to retain any kind of decent talent to run the operation.

[–] Rookwood 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

Poverty figures made a record jump of 11 points in the span of six months.

All they needed is to sacrifice the poor. Poverty is now at 53% in the country.

[–] Rookwood 8 points 1 week ago

I mean it's logical when you have to take out a mortgage to pay for your truck.

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