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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] LapGoat@pawb.social 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

name one person who died of fluorine poisoning from drinking too much tap water.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago

I can tell you of one adult guy who went to Germany with no cavities, lived there for two years, and came back with several cavities. Not, like, a couple cavities, but several. Germany doesn't flouridate their tap water.

That guy was me, and now whenever I hear fucknuts complaining about flouride in tap water in the US, I stick 'em in the mental "dumb-asses not worth listening to" bin.

[–] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 0 points 9 months ago

I don't think the claim is that it's deadly; I believe the concern it's that there's little to no proven benefits when used topically and at least a few proven detriments when ingested. I haven't done much reading on the subject, so I'm not sure.

Regardless of the veracity of the aforementioned claims, I believe it's immoral for a government to add unnecessary chemicals to public water supply.