Agreed, why just the penny, eliminate the whole decimal place.

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Oof. My heart goes out to you. Thank you for your service.

Yeah, that’s usually their “right” as a parent to enforce what does / doesn’t get taught in their school.

As a parent, this trend in offloading all parental responsibilities onto the people around us is infuriating. Guns, cars, drugs, porn, why is any of this an issue, just fucking parent.

“that American’s going to be trouble”

Porcco Rosso. I can literally watch that movie on repeat.

Any man who fits those is too busy getting laid non stop.

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Safe and makes you 2 - 5% stupider are different things. I never claimed it’s unsafe.

“Measurable” is the beast here. IQ typically has to drop 20 - 30 points on average to be measurable. So it’s probable that the current Flouride levels of municipal water are dropping IQs by say 10 points on average.

This is all so fucking stupid!

Flouride provides unarguable protection from cavities. To do so it needs to come into contact with teeth.

Flouride also (very likely) has brain health implications. So you should not swallow it.

Obvious solution! : what every dentist already does, swish some flouride or hold it against your teeth, then spit it all out.

Our politicians who want to put it in, and keep it in the water can go right to hell for brain poisoning our youth.

Jokes on you, I’d pay $1 for the lot.

The problem is far greater than that.

Treat them like snakes. Grab the neck as close to below the head as possible. In desperation you can subdue two at once. It will be savagely unpleasant. If your grip strength and stamina is enough, you can faint them in a minute or so.

Ideally you grab one at a time with both hands. Even the average human is strong enough to snap the neck in seconds. Grab snap repeat. Just stay focused. Grab snap repeat.

Wondering if it’s weird is weird. Go enjoy your park.

They are absolutely smart and dexterous enough.

That’s a good point about the sea corroding everything though, they’d have to move to land for industry.

It would start with farming. They already use tools, building fish and mollusc farms would be a likely start.

They can scurry across land in short bursts already. Bringing salt so they can explore freshwater streams and rivers seems possible. Digging canals they can travel in up further into the land seems possible.

They actually wouldn’t even need to mine, humans have already done most of that already. They just need to salvage.

You fundamentaly misunderstand evolution if you think a bird wing would evolve into a hand.

You’re thinking about it like intelligent design. This would be a good idea, so it will surely happen.

Evolution requires many generations of slight variations each being slightly beneficial over the last.

Crows would sooner develop hand like feet than lose their wings.

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Also, we’re talking about mining? Let’s put a crow wing and octopus tentacle in an arm wrestling match. The octopus crushes the whole crow, bones and all, with one tentacle. It’s not even close. Birds are fucking fragile.