NeverNudeNo13

None of that was said in my comment, but sure okay let's go with it. What I said is that if the US was trying to bully Ramaphosa or South Africa, it would in fact be able to do so. Ramaphosa is unnecessarily posturing and name calling because he is a deeply disingenuous person.

US: We are concerned about the inherently racist motivations in your recent policies and we are going to review whether it is appropriate to be sending you all of this money we have been giving you for free for all of these years. Ramaphosa: WE WILL NOT BE BULLIED!

Later Ramaphosa: Hey Elon, please tell Trump I'm sorry...

The correct response would have been more along the lines of: We have heard the concerns raised by the US government regarding our latest policies and we believe we will be able to dispel these concerns after we are able to discuss these complex issues in depth with the US. We appreciate all of the support and look forward to the continued partnership with the USA.

Jingoistic is a bit of a stretch but sure. Chauvinistic definitely not.

A country cannot claim to be bullied by another country whose only action against them is that they decided to stop giving them money that they have been giving them in charity for decades, no matter the context of why they made that decision.

Like an angry teenager filing charges with the police that his mother is abusing him because she decided to withhold his allowance since he refused to clean his room. Only in this situation it's not an unkempt room but a despotic racist stealing property from people through the force of the state. Wait a moment, I think there is a better word for this... Oh yeah... That's it... Ramaphosa is a fucking bully.

You need to understand that this issue is not a "Trump" issue... For a better part of the past century South Afrikaans have been working through some major issues and most just want fair and equitable policy. Quite a few Afrikaans feel the government's over corrections, like the law in question here, only stoke more extremism.

Example: https://farmingportal.co.za/index.php/all-agri-news/news-of-the-day/5184-i-think-i-know-what-happened-did-sa-farmers-set-a-police-van-on-fire-or-south-africa

I actually think you are both right... But it's likely some one is using an AI translator that is trying to reconstruct the original picture with the translated words substituted in the original words place.

I didn't wake up expecting to hate someone today

On the same hand... "Fluently translate this email into 10 random and discrete languages" is a task that 99.999% of humans would fail that a language model should be able to hit.

Mozz fries are four times that price now in some areas.

Yeah that proves my point entirely.

In 1945 they fluoridated the first public water supply.

In 1979 the first published research began to appear to show how fluoride might be able to remineralize dental enamel.

It's so funny I was just having a similar conversation about neurotoxic venomous animals in another thread. Lethality is an obviously concerning threshold, but there are substances out there that can easily destroy your quality of life and livelihood that never reach the concern of being lethal.

I think for mostly rational people concerned about fluoride in their water is that it was a public health decision made with little to no actual science proving it's safety or efficacy when it was first decided that they were going to add it to the public water supply. The proposed benefits of it weren't even supported by scientific evidence, it was just supposed that exposure to sodium fluoride could potentially reduce tooth decay for some.

Personally, I've suffered from the cosmetic damage of dental fluorosis, and I'm not necessarily thrilled about fluoride. But I have way more issues with public mandates founded on pseudoscience than I am with sodium fluoride. Especially now that we can see evidence that for some people fluoride can be especially beneficial.

So what was wrong with giving people the option of using fluoride toothpaste or mouthwashes... Why did it have to go into the public water supply?

Yeah that's mostly true... But it's not like a hangover... I had a friend bitten by a snake out in the Mojave once and I'm sure she would have strong opinions about how strenuous the recovery was from it. Neurotoxins, especially potent ones, can be disruptive enough to create long term disabilities. If you are someone who performs a lot of skilled fine motor movements as part of your job or as part of a hobby or something it could be a significant amount of time for you to fully recover from a neurotoxin.

Cytotoxins are interesting as well, though generally not considered deadly they can really mess up your quality of life and be extremely debilitating, even disfiguring.

Generally just a good idea to stay away from anything venomous.

Yeap, but that's because the venom is a hemotoxin rather than a neurotoxin.

Oh fantastic, sorry if I missed that detail in the original post. Thought you might have had an old eBay blade server or something. Hope you got it working!