Notices by Alyx Hinata ??? (alyx@gameliberty.club)

@icedquinn @djsumdog @xianc78 @teratology
And how cheap are these treatments? Do you support these being offered as free healthcare (as in paid with your tax money)? Do you support these treatments becoming mandatory? (cause otherwise I foresee a lot of people not going to the dentist to get them, even if they're free).

@icedquinn @djsumdog @xianc78
> every dental product says DO NOT INGEST CALL POISON CONTROL.
That's because
1) toothpaste has other stuff in it besides fluoride, that are likely significantly more harmful
2) toothpaste has a higher concentration of fluoride than water does, so it's not as safe to ingest as tap water
3) it's their lawyer approved messaging so that they won't get sued if you do ingest toothpaste and get an unforeseen reaction.

In massive amounts, sure fluoride is gonna be bad, just like everything else. And I've heard it recommended by fluoride advocates that it's a good idea to look for unfluorided toothpaste for children, because tap water will already have plenty and if they accidentally ingest some toothpaste (which children are more likely to do), they could go into overdose zone. Though I think the child needs to be extra toothpaste hungry for it to actually have some effect. But it's one of those "better safe than sorry" situations.

As far as I'm concerned the fluoride fear is overblown. Worst case scenario, compare your tap water concentration to what other European countries are doing, and if you're an outlier with a much higher dose (I've heard some people say this is the case for USA), advocate for a reduction.

Oh internet, you're so silly.

#FreeGames

DEATH STRANDING
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding

@beardalaxy
I never expected to pirate this game, let alone own it.

Remember when Trump won in 2016, even though every god damned poll said he wouldn't?

Remember the conclusion that came out on why every poll got it wrong? People figured it was because many people were simply too scared to answer honestly that they would vote Trump.

A simple anonymous poll, conducted by complete strangers with no inherent power (political or otherwise) and people were too scared to answer honestly.

How long before people will be too scared to vote honestly? Remember, unlike a polling company, the ones counting your vote do have political power. And the "shadow government" has proven that it is not afraid to wield that power to suit their preferences.

There's a saying here: he who today steals an egg, tomorrow steals an ox.

Today the FBI censored people and information critical to at least 1 election.

What will they steal tomorrow?

@dave
Votes no longer hold any value when you are no longer informed.

When you vote, you consent to who you want to rule over you. If you're denied critical information about one candidate, and you're given blatant false information about that other candidate, you can no longer talk about informed consent.

It's a sham vote. It's fake. Your democracy is no more legitimate than North Korea's. Your entire populace has been subjected to the very same propaganda and misinformation of every other soviet state.

Stop living in denial. Accept this fact, so that you can actually fight against it.

@dave
I'm more concerned over the fact that America is no longer a democratic republic.

@dave
Nope. Not when you have the FBI playing political favorites and directing social media to censor stuff. That's not a democracy anymore. Learn from ex-communist soviet countries. We used to have "elections" during Ceaușescu's days. Nobody in their right mind would have said we were a democracy, or would have thought they could vote against Ceaușescu without the secret services coming after them.

@thor
The more you dissect a statement, the more you explain your position, the longer the argument is gonna get.

It's easy to say "nah, I disagree". It's hard to actually explain why you disagree, to point out why you are right, and to try to make yourself perfectly understood.

@thor
The average human isn't my friend either. I don't plan on being friends with everyone.

@thor
I expect of my friends to be able and willing to hold conversations. It's what I appreciate in people. It's what makes me want to be friends with someone in the first place. Sometimes those conversations are debates. I'd like to hold those conversations too, even if we never find a common ground.

@thor
You ask whether it's about being correct or friends. I answer: it's about having the discussion, because it's the best way to assess who might be correct, even if we might not discover who is correct.

@thor
You haven't participated in many good conversations, have you?

@thor
I never considered you an idiot, but it's not the first time I see you posit that a short argument is somehow proof that a person is correct, and it does make me scratch my head.

An atheist can spend days explaining why the Bible is self contradictory, historically wrong, immoral, and just plain wrong.
A Christian can say "It's true because the Bible says so, and I trust the Bible because it says god, a perfect being, wrote the Bible, so it must be true".

The latter is significantly shorter. By your reasoning, chances are it's the correct position.

@thor
I'm not in the camp of "ignorance is bliss". If you want to live your life with just "nah, I disagree" it's your choice, and I obviously can't stop you. But technology wasn't invented with just "nah, I disagree" so it's not something I can respect.

And this position of yours, where you automatically assume you're right, when you're not even willing to put the effort in to think and explain a position, now that's insulting.

#FreeGames

Fallout 1
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/fallout

Fallout 2
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/fallout-2

Fallout Tactics
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/fallout-tactics-brotherhood-of-steel

Had a dream I was playing around with Windows 95 on a virtual machine on @thor 's computer. I was remembering where all the settings were, and how everything worked back then, and I was getting used to not using the various gestures and shortcuts that modern OSes brought to the PC.

The conclusion was that we need to go back to 1998 technology.

@icedquinn
Be a real man. Use WinZip.

@lain
Yes, the solution to hot things is cold things. That's how thermodynamics works.