Interesting, thanks for the information!

I don’t think that this removes more plaque, but it does neutralize the acids that they produce which damages teeth.

Meh. There’s also .UK, which is not the country code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland… that’s GB.

We also have .EU, so this stuff is all pretty flexible in some sense.

Country codes are defined by the ISO, which is not UN run.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

If you need something you can still search for it using Google. Sometimes manufacturers even have lists of companies who sell their stuff. You can buy from some other retailer.

And if Amazon is a lot cheaper or the only option, then you suck it up to living in a fully-evolved capitalistic hell scape and buy it from Bezos.

Yeah.

Blowing up Aldaran? Genocide. Killing all the Jedi? Genocide. Killing a village of Sand People? Not genocide.

This strikes me as nonsensical. If one person stops eating meat then the meat industry will create less waste. Maybe not exactly 1 person less, but unless they literally trash all of the meat that person would have consumed, it must be less.

A new twist on a classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY

This is pretty much how The Handmaiden’s Tale book goes. “Terrorists” nuke DC and some Christian fundamentalists take over.

Don’t you mean 5/7?

I don’t see much negatively. But I use lemmynsfw.

This is why the fantasy of asking AI to solve global warming will either end up with no benefit (possible) or with us being converted to carbon-neutral paperclips.

Jerry: “Aren’t you going to see what the message is?”

George: “Nah.”

Kramer: “Why not? It could be important!”

Jerry: “It’s not like you to ignore a message…”

George: “Okay, okay! I’ll tell you. I was sitting at home.”

Jerry: “Doing what?”

George: “Nothing.”

Kramer: “Oh yeah! I love doing nothing! I love it!”

Jerry: “Nothing? Sounds boring.”

George: “Spoken like an amateur. I have it down to an art.”

Kramer: “We should compare notes!”

Jerry: “Anyway, then what happened?”

George: “I get a text from this girl I had lunch with.”

Jerry: “Lunch? Like a date? A” lunch date?"

George: “I don’t know, I don’t know! How can you know? Who suggests lunch when someone asks them out? I don’t know, but she did!”

Kramer: “Yikes!”

Jerry: “Okay, so you get this text message.”

George: “That’s right.”

Jerry: “From the lunch maybe date maybe not woman.”

George: “That’s right.”

Jerry: “What does it say?”

George: “What are you doing?”

Jerry: “I’m asking what the message said!”

George: “I know! The message said, ‘What are you doing?’”

Jerry: “Ooooo. Okay. And?”

George: “So I sent her a reply, that said ‘nothing’.”

Kramer: “Classic mistake.”

George: “Well I wish I had known! How am I supposed to know?!”

Jerry: “I don’t get it. What’s the mistake?”

George: “After I told her that I wasn’t doing anything, she called me!”

Jerry: “On the phone? What for?”

George: “To talk!”

Jerry: “About what?”

George: “Nothing! I wanted to do nothing, not talk about nothing!”

Kramer: “You got yourself a phone talker.”

George: “A phone talker!”

Jerry: “Seems like it. So what are you going to do?”

George: “What can I do? I’m going to have to tell her talking on the phone causes me migraines. It’s the only way…”

Kramer and George leave. Jerry sees a message from Elaine that says, “What are you doing?” He puts the phone down.

Will you please explain this?

I feel like I understand each sentence but not why you put them together.

It’s pretty unfriendly not to leave an opening for others to wander in and join the conversation at a party. I’ve been standing around wondering why I’m there for sure though. Something to keep in mind as you’re enthusiastically chatting yourself at some point in the future. 😆

By the way, my tinfoil hat uses Arch Linux.

EDIT: now I see that I’ve just repeated the same joke that someone already made better in a different post. Leaving my post up for posterity so I remember my shame.

Except that a recent study shows that a plastic bag charge in the UK significantly changed behaviors:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00266/full

So the suggestion that people are unchangeable is plausible, but turns out to not be true.

What do you mean?

The Scots are a violent, savage people. I was attacked there and beaten, and everyone I met on the rest of my week stay regaled me with stories of people they knew who had been similarly brutalized. “Oh yeah my sister got a kicking last week.” “My mate Barry tried to pull some geezers off a bird and then she helped them give him a kicking!” And on and on. Amazingly even more vicious than the English, which hardly seemed possible.

Except the water faucets (“taps”) come in pairs, one with cold water and one with hot. So, not so much like going into the future, but more like some primitive land too stubborn to change for the better in even the most straightforward, obvious ways. 😆