Lets not be hyperbolic.

Anti-Christ, not Satan.

I honestly don’t remember a family or church event that didn’t use the plastic ones unless we were doing egg art as kids.

Candy beats a room temp egg that’s been sitting in a random spot for hours hands down.

Fluoridation is most effective at ages where it’s hard for kids to physically hold a toothbrush, much less develop good or effective habits. Especially if they’re in a family that is struggling to regularly provide food, much less worry about long term healthcare. Berating children for not knowing things or having self control is a ridiculous position to take.

The entire point of public fluoridation is that it requires no effort or cost by the people it is most effective for. It’s why some places take excessive natural fluoride out of the water and some places put more in because there isn’t any. It’s how we discovered fluoride was effective in the first place.

Aspirin is poison, Vitamin C is poison, water is poison. “Poison is in the dosage” isn’t a glib statement, it’s how biology works. Putting an amount of fluoride in the water that is still non-toxic if you severely over-hydrate yourself or regularly swallow a tube toothpaste, is not toxic. And it still has massive lifelong positive health benefits that reduce lifetime medical needs.

Because a lot of those people are children.

Fluoridating water is cheap. If someone is uneducated enough to not know or care about how their dental health affects their overall health, and the same for their child, it matters significantly less because they get a baseline level of care from the public water system. It means they use less medicare/medicaid funds in the years and decades to follow.

The single study cited in a lot of anti-fluoride laws/debates is talking about possible single digit IQ differences from possible overdoses on the scale of countries. That’s smaller than the effect of the same person taking the same test on different days. It’s a textbook example of finding noise in the data, pointing to it, and saying this proves exactly what I want it to. And it’s being used to remove one of the best documented, lowest cost, most effective large scale public health measures of the 20th century. Because it will not impact people with parents who can afford dental care and/or have the education to value it.

Are they ICE agents?

There’s a reason we, in the past, set up things like badges and uniforms to identify agents of the civil authority. It’s so we know there is at least the pretense that the rights of the person being arrested will be respected and that they will go to a location where they can be checked on and communicate with friends/family and receive legal assistance for the charges brought against them.

Masked men with guns shouting “I’m definitely police” and bagging a woman is not that.

Their bosses pretending this is good enough is, at the very very very least, endangering federal agents unnecessarily. To say nothing of the rights of the people they’re disappearing without the pretense of arresting them.

It’s worse because as described in the largest comment in the thread the Federal Reserve is not the US government’s wallet. And there is no mechanism for them to “just sell gold”.

It’s yet another thing that sounds vaguely feasible only if you know absolutely nothing about any of the systems in place.

Honestly not sure there’s much of a distinction between those groups anymore.

Well damn. Weird way to find out there’s possibly a new Buffy.

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They should, but government positions are to a PayScale. You get hired “as” a GS-9 or whatever. You can go and lookup what the location pay adjustment is for your city if you’re curious.

Contractors are generally paid at least double digit percentages more for the same job but can be fired/not renewed much easier. In theory.

The tradeoff was that it’s pretty hard to fire a full time employee without cause, and the pension / student loan forgiveness / etc.

Regan is a monster, that was at least while the roof was being resurfaced and they just didn’t put them back. They were just water heaters anyway, not photovoltaics.

This is solely spending more money to remove freshly installed government equipment for no reason.

There’s always Tasker.

It’s stupidly powerful once you get used to how it works, even without root, and it can definitely patch into the default “share” functionality.

Are you looking for something like Pocket?

There are self-hosted things a lot like it. Vivaldi and some other browsers have similar functionality. Not sure about downloading the videos, but there are other tools for that.

Terribly sorry, arguments are over in room 3B.

Switching to Starship, which is designed to get to space as fast as possible to beat their competition, is not better. Even if there weren’t a conflict of interest the size of Jupiter.

The NASA moonshot has been choosing hardware that will do what is asked of it every time and has known failure modes and fixes. Not the shiny new thing. That’s a good thing.

Starship or it’s successors may in the future be a good option. For the first experimental mission(s) it’s a ship designed for LEO and should not be pointed at the moon just because it is also rocket shaped.

Going to the moon should use technology that is tried and tested.

Another “Apollo 13” happening because the new strategy is “move fast and break things” won’t have the same happy ending.

You shouldn’t throw out all your hammers just because they were designed a “too long” ago. Some tools are fit for purpose.

I mean Natural Gas is as natural as Iron or Coal. The problem is extracting and burning it is causing issues.

And it was kind of a shit show for awhile.

There’s obviously overlap between military and civilian controllers, but it’s not the same job. The volume of traffic alone at a busy hub makes most air force bases look like quaint backwater airstrips.

There’s also just not a lot of “extra” military ATC.