There’s other ways to do that too. Kids here (Netherlands) get fluoride treatments from a young age (after their adult teeth have come through, I think) up to 18. It’s not particularly enjoyable but like you said, it benefits you for the rest of your life.

Free/affordable healthcare means checkups at the dentist about every 6 months. After the checkup you get these two small jaw shaped containers (for upper and lower sides) filled with a fluoride paste and you just sit there for a few minutes drooling into a metal bowl. There’s even flavours but they’re all gross, haha. Apparently that’s on purpose so you don’t swallow too much.

Anyway, this whole fluoride in the water thing appears to be a very US based discussion, so I’ve got no horse in this race. I just wish the US had better, more affordable healthcare to begin with.

Like the upper management and C-suite give a fuck about any of their employees.

Gran Turismo 7 pulled the same shit. I’m still pissed about that one. Plus the lack of single player content basically means I haven’t even played the game since shortly after launch. The grind without mtx is crazy boring.

As much as I’d love for people to do this, there’s probably a ton of software safeguards to prevent this. Even if you’d get around it, those greedy fuckers will undoubtedly void your warranty. And somehow that’s legal too.

Can the EU please do something here? This is BS.

Helectronic Parts?

With lots of stairs and a lifetime supply of tea.

No, but men can’t be victims of such things anyway, didn’t you know? ^/s

You were doing great, until the last paragraph. Too bad.

I’m LGBTQ…AND republican. Although that means something vastly different where I live, haha (I live in a kingdom).

I still have a PC copy of 2007(?) Sega Rally I can no longer play because the DRM software is no longer supported in Windows.

Holy shit

Lol, 48 hours of paid time off. I don’t even work full time and get 120 hours, by law. Fuck the US.

I clicked the last story and it made truly me sick to my stomach. I had to skip through the details halfway. I’m angry and sad, and I am once again confirmed in my belief that I will never, ever want to live in the US. There are so many of these stories, and for so long now, and yet nothing has changed. The country is morally bankrupt.

Sftu loser! He’s got great asteriskses, the best in fact! Nobodies got asteriskses like him, in the world!

^(/s, but not really necessary I hope)

“Boomer” has basically become slang for things like conservative, old-fashioned, technologically illiterate, homophobic, racist, etc.

Depends on the context, but barely anyone I know uses the word literally anymore.

No shit.

Seeing “Gay Olympics” made me go “wut?”, so of course I clicked the link, and it immediately made sense.

I wish her, and you as well, the best.

Reading this makes me so fucking angry. It baffles me how often bullies get away with shit, and even more how their own parents completely lack any form of empathy towards their kid’s victim and will simply refuse to believe their “little angel” is a fucking gremlin. But the bully gets hit back just once, and suddenly the victim gets demonised. Blegh. I hate it so much.

I hope your kid is doing better now.