decib.bsky.social
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It’s about quantity. Yes, in your article fluoridated water over 1.5 ppm (1.5 mg/L) showed impact to IQ scores. Under, 1.5 ppm (1.5 mg/L), no significant difference was found. NIH recommends 0.7mg/L max which is half the ppm of the ppm that’s linked with IQ degradation per your study.
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How about terrifying?? I’m alarmed and terrified. None of this is normal or warranted. Local law enforcement should handle and if they need help request it. Not be invaded by the federal government.
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Heard from a friend in LA … who usually jumps at her own shadow… but is feeling calm. The protests have been calm only a few bad apples. The only real source of stress, the military occupation…
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I think they did. In the last link I posted in response the NIH, also know as our governments National Health Service, posted a comprehensive statement earlier this year on safety and available data. Who is the “them” you’re referring to and how many years of data do you need to make a decision?
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NIH states there is insufficient evidence that 0.7mg/L lowers IQs. Published April 2025.
ntp.niehs.nih.gov/research/ass...
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If you were really a lover of the 10th amendment like your profile claims you’d know that Newsom is in the right and Trump has far exceeded the extent of his powers by invading a state without their request for Federal support.
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Recommended level of 0.7 mg/L to promote oral health benefits. At 1.5 mg/L some studies suggest lowers IQs but these are point in time studies. You’d need longitudinal to understand cause v correlation. Like everything it’s about how much and how long v not at all..
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CA is the 5th largest economy globally. They don’t really need the rest of US.
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I grew up in a town with low fluoridation in the water. My parents enrolled me in a school program where the nurse would distribute fluoride rinses to help strengthen enamel development. The decision was bc my dad had weak enamel due to low fluoride as a kid. I have great teeth.
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It’s arrived. We need to decide as a society how we are going to adapt same way with elevator operators, wheelwrights and other professions replaced by new technologies had too. AI is a tool, like a hammer, that could be used to build and progress all people or destroy. Now is the time to decide.
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Hmm… I wonder what these guys are thinking about their situation…
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Nothing like seeing people who’ve never served anything but themselves turn the military on the country’s citizens.
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1 in 5 kids died from disease now preventable due to vaccines. Is this why we need the birthing bonuses? Planning ahead for population loss? Seems a little twisted to pay people to have kids that this administration has no interest in protecting once they are here.
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CA has the 4the largest economy in the world. Trump’s federal budget needs them a lot more than they need him. And, as a kid whose mom was born and raised in LA and who spent summers with grandma in the city, I hope they stick it to him.
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Gross. Bet every empire since the dawn of time thought the same before they collapsed
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Will they? We just pardoned all the Jan 6th rioters. Gave one’s family $5m and handed out pardons to people who defrauded the government… Trumps actions telegraph he’s giving everyone who supports his agenda a pass when it comes to decency and follow the law
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I think there are a lot of people out, for a multitude of reasons, that attracted to certain professions because they want to feel powerful and exert unconditional power over others and instill fear in others. This is the moment they’ve been waiting for to do just that.
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He was just waiting for an excuse to turn the military against the America people so he could overthrow our constitution democracy… if not this he would have found some thing else
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Wow. He looks old. You know he’s only 3.5 years younger than Biden…. I think that’s a small enough difference that we should really be questioning if he’s too old and declining to be president…