At least they didn’t use the old Communist plot rhetoric.
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Based on what I heard on NPR earlier this year there is a valid scientific/public health debate around what levels of fluoride (if any) belong in water, where it can be difficult to avoid. It isn’t that excessive fluoride (which can happen at “moderate” levels) has no deleterious effects, and that wider use of fluoride toothpaste (more common today than when water systems started adding fluoride) isn’t possibly a better approach. So it is way more nuanced than the “5G microchip vaccines” idiocy.
Nikola. Tesla. Same-same.
Back when I spent a couple of years acting as a pet actuary for a trade organization, I had the opportunity to spend about a half hour sitting in the gallery of the Utah state senate, while waiting for a couple of the legislators my handlers wanted to meet with to become free.
The debate I got to witness was one where they were addressing rules on the public water system of one county providing water service to properties in another county. (For example, a subdivision being built on the “wrong side” of mountains to access the home county’s water utility.)
That debate specifically focused on fluoridation. The county with the residential development forbade fluoridation, but the county the development was going to get water from fluoridated the water.
One suggestion made in the debate still sticks in my mind: “The water company can remove the fluoride at the county line, can’t it?”
That trip (which involved a couple of other stops) was where I really came to appreciate that there are a bunch of idiots being elected to state legislatures.
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I’m almost positive the development they were discussing is in my hometown.
And having tried to get a bill passed that fixed a law that said exactly opposite of what the constitution said, having it passed unanimously in the Senate then amended in the House with an amendment which because of how it was written had literally no affect, then to have the Senate unanimously vote against the amended bill, I agree with your thoughts on the intelligence of people elected to state legislatures. I would extend that to most elected officials.
I have often said I don’t trust people in insurance or politicians. I currently sit on my city council.
FWIW, the event I described was 24 years ago, in the same session where Utah past its first legislation on credit scoring in insurance.
Will be interesting to eventually hear what this is about if the news ever comes out
Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes
Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school’s website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.
School and FBI are saying nothing.
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The WTF is “Why is this a news story at all?”
Bikram Dude was on “Real Sports” for his general shittiness.
It is WTF for several reasons. For me, it was the proverbial “making a mountain out of a molehill” given Roma Abdesselam’s overreaction.
Eh. People do this all the time. Its inclusion in the NYT is a true WTF. I mean, really? Nothing else newsworthy? Except being scared of getting shut down by the government for hurting some specific one’s feelings?
Yes but can I put my installment payments on installment payments? That’s be the next step of the recession.
No doubt it will be securitized and you can buy shares of other people’s burrito debt.
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This is bizarre.
How the hell are you still legally driving in NYC with 100 violations since 2023?
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That’s high, but you get those for going 36 mph most anywhere. They just added some regions that you can get those for going 31 mph. The red light cameras are mostly a cash grab.
Red light cameras do not go on a person’s record, as they aren’t proof of who was driving.
The fine goes to the vehicle’s owner, but not sure that counts
license was suspended. How do you keep someone from accessing a car?
I like the old program where they could boot or impound your vehicle after excessive tickets.
Asset forfeiture of the car. Bar them from ever owning a car again if they are found to own one again then forfeiture again. If they are driving someone else’s car, unless it can be proven that the car was stolen, forfeiture of that car as well. I would do this for repeat DUI’s as well.
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Same thing as above for this guy as well.