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   Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 09:31:32 JST Minoru Saba

   • Sam Litzinger
   • Nearly Normal Norm
   • Christopher Keener, pHd :ddg:

   @RoboticistDuck @Spoon @samlitzinger
   "...in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove...the character General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear war in the hope of thwarting a communist plot to ”sap and impurify” the ”precious bodily fluids” of the American people with fluoridated water"
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_controversy
   🔸"Dr. Strangelove" was aired recently in #Japan. Missed the fluoridation reference while trying to pick out all the Peter Seller characters; parody becoming reality is hair-raising🥶

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     Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 09:42:25 JST Minoru Saba

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     • Sam Litzinger
     • Nearly Normal Norm
     • Christopher Keener, pHd :ddg:

     @RoboticistDuck @Spoon @samlitzinger That the title "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" ended up as "博士の異常な愛情 または私は如何にして心配するのを止めて水爆を愛するようになったか [The professor's abnormal love or how I stopped worrying and came to love the hydrogen bomb]" always struck me as a "strange" mixture of direct & appropriate translation.😎