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  • Play protect doesn’t actually scan for malware; it’s not an anti-virus. Google, supposedly, scans for malware on the app store regularly and takes action through play protect if they find it there.

    So, in other words, unless you have a very specific reason; like you believe it is likely that one of the apps you use from the google play store could become compromised in the future, just disable plat protect.

    It will at best annoy you with false positives and blocking non-play store apps for no other reason than google’s jealousy. At worst it won’t stop a harmful app from being on your device – it will just eventually catch and remove it after it has already been on your device doing whatever nefarious activity.





  • No, it has no measurable effect. We see the exact same dental effects in modern countries without any fluoridation, natural or artificial. That’s why causation hasn’t been proven.

    Yes, in the US, specifically the US, as areas got wealthy enough to contribute enough property tax to pay for fluoridation… their dental hygiene went up.

    …The same thing has happened in China without fluoridation… and mexico… and wealthier parts of central and eastern europe (which has low to no levels of natural fluoridation).

    And we see in Western europe, where there is significant natural fluoridation… the exact same increase in dental hygiene over time… That wouldn’t happen IF THE FLUORIDATION WAS THE CAUSE. They already had it. Why would dental hygiene increase, without adding fluorine? Across all these cultures. At the same time wealth and education increases…

    I fucking wonder.




  • …Why? Because Berkeley has non-fluoridated water, after mass encouragement from professors at UC Berkeley.

    As to why the aluminum industry… THAT’S THE EXCLUSIVE, AND I DO MEAN THE EXCLUSIVE REASON THE US STARTED FLUORIDATING WATER. There was no other reason. Sodium Fluoride is toxic waste that is a by product from refining aluminum. It cost the industry millions (in 1920s month) actively cleaning up and properly disposing of that waste according to the few ecological protections present in the day.

    Then hey, Fluoride is useful in dentistry in high amounts, why don’t they sell to that industry? So they did. And then someone had the clever idea of paying off dentists to help lobby for water fluoridation, as was SO INCREDIBLY COMMON AT THE TIME (sugar, milk, leaded gasoline, cigarettes, lead paint, lead pipes). And so they got a way to get PAID to dump their toxic waste. They just had to make sure it was under a certain concentration; which just meant they aggressively pushed fluoridation across the US and Canada so their margins would be higher. Eventually fluorine became the easiest way to dump that particular chemical, and despite the extra cost for that step of refining (which resulted in sodium metal as a bonus sellable item) it is still more profitable than having to pay to properly dispose of the material.












  • Code was in use relating to the set of instructions used to control a computer in 1946; with it becoming a verb by 1986. Programming was from 1945 as a first use in regards to computers; meaning "cause to be automatically regulated in a prescribed way.

    Now the funny thing is the noun ‘Program’ in regards to computers in 1945 meant “series of coded instructions which directs a computer in carrying out a specific task”

    So if we really work through the etymology a bit, coded instructions was first, then Program/ming, then Code and coding; though certainly ‘encoding’ would have been used before programming given the definition of ‘coded instructions.’

    So… Blame Ada Lovelace for not coming up with something catchy like ‘lacing’ which would have been far more camp (and much more accurate to the gender of early programmers).


  • As the current admin is a touchy subject for you people, let us take a quick, objective look back at a simpler time.

    What was materially different for the average person in the George W. Bush administration vs the Barack Obama administration?

    Was it worker’s rights? No, not really, both presidents gorged themselves on union busting. While the minimum wage did get raised once, technically during Obama’s term (though the legislation passed during W’s admin) neither president advocated for this; and both parties actually fought heavily against this increase at the time while only relenting as a way to offset Bill Clinton’s 2008 Financial Crisis.. Don’t get me wrong with that last quip, Republicans had plenty to do with it, but lets not forget Clinton signed it, and democrats largely stamped it.

    Was it… quality of life? No, not really. If anything Obama made life worse for the average American. with wealth inequality soaring at the fastest rate in human history, not just American history, until the pandemic at least. I wonder why that period had such a high jump.

    Was it… immigrants rights? No. Obama was the deporter-in-chief, even under the best interpretations, whose numbers have yet to be matched and had only one significant rival in world history. Oh but DACA was good right? Oh wait wrong link, sorry. Don’t get me wrong Trump is harsher in this regard… in that white people can now be victims. Nothing Trump has done is new.

    How about foreign policy? … Nope. We know the answer to that. Don’t even need links do we. Obama’s legacy of violence showed the world the US does not avoid civilian deaths, in fact we explicitly, wantonly target civilians. Many in the world knew this already, after all exporting violence is what the US is known for outside the west, but Obama made it clear that George W Bush was not a fluke. Republicans were not the source of violence. It was the US itself that was violent.

    Gas prices were lower. Sometimes. Under Obama. And food was cheaper. Under Bush. Same amount of insider trading regardless, same corrupt cabinets, same donors to both presidential campaigns, practically the same appointees…

    It really does go on. But I’m bored and you probably have other replies expanding on this by now.