Nothing sinister at all. It has a long and proven track record. Which you can check out if you don’t want to be low-info anymore. Doctors and dentists support it.

But there’s a subset of people who want us to go back to disease-ridden serfs, because when your teeth are falling out and 3 out of your 5 kids died young from disease and you can barely make rent, you’re too distracted to care what other people are doing.

There’s only pros. It’s proven to prevent cavities in children and adults, much better than brushing alone.

There’s also the sad fact that not every kid is taught to—or sometimes allowed to—brush their teeth.

Because it’s not only about how much I have, it’s about how much you people don’t have!

I mean, it can be a bit of an issue everywhere.

Hilariously this post was just above this one in my feed.

Here’s one

lol

A delivery guy I know couldn’t make his (scheduled, daily) pickup at an Amazon warehouse because the robot security didn’t recognize him that day (despite being the usual guy, with a badge).

So yeah, that probably will be the most likely scenario.

Curious, since I’ve never filleted a fish before; what would you do for bigger fish like salmon?

Exactly. To these people, being ‘bad’ isn’t something you do, it’s something you are. (You may thank certain types of Christianity for this nonsense.)

So the thinking goes something like: ‘I’m a Good Person. And as a Good Person, I do Good Things and have Good Family, because I am Good.’ They feel (and it is always feel, not think) that Bad People are what cause the true downfall of society—mostly because they’re told that by their Good Authority Figures (you can tell the Authority Figures are Good because they lead/belong to a Church, and Churches are Good—as long as it’s the right church, of course).

This all means, of course, that since they’re Good, they can’t do Bad Things; they just make occasional mistakes.

(This is also where you get ‘The people I voted for are Good, because only a Bad Person would vote for Bad People, and I’m not Bad, I’m Good. So Trump isn’t Bad, he’s just misunderstood!’ nonsense.)

And, I hate to break it to you, but this behavior is very human. This is a version of Tribalism; my In Group is Good and everyone in the Out Group is Bad.

Edit: I think Sir Terry Pratchett said it best:

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.

That wasn’t for the Nazi, it was for other people reading what the Nazi wrote. I don’t want people to get taken in by the poorly structured arguments and the constant moving of goalposts.

That’s an ad hominem and not a valid argument. I know the internet breeds bad habits in people, but you really should try to do better.

‘What the staff says’ has nothing to do with citing and linking to primary sources, which is what is important and the focus of this discussion.

Meanwhile, actual headline I saw in a paper from my city: Trump’s Tarriffs Spell Big Trouble for China!

In case anyone was wondering why there are no riots, it’s because most people are reading drivel like that.

Obviously you’ve never heard of the concept of ‘citing credible sources’.

Keep in mind too that they’re not always accurate. I know of one in my city that regularly takes photos of people going through on the green because it’s a bit of a wonky intersection. And that means a person gets to spend their day in court instead of at work fighting a ticket they did not deserve.

Age matters too. Older eggs are easier to peel.

So Octarine, basically.

Hey, I never said it was a good design lol

Honestly not sure. Haven’t been to an arcade in years.

I should go to one again.

That was by design, actually. A lot of the old arcade games were like that.

It was to get people to either quit after a bit of playing so a new person could step in and give the machine money, or have the person who lost at the hard level put more money in.

Otherwise at just a quarter the machines become unprofitable. Just capitalism things.

? Pretty sure that’s not what they said.

They said that there are people on Lemmy who think a person who stabs someone vs a person who doesn’t are morally equivalent—as long as they’re both poor.

Very different.

They did also say that there are poor people who stab others and blame their actions on being poor, but that was tangential to their main point about judging the morals of a person solely based on their wealth or lack thereof.

Because it’s not only about how much I have, it’s about how much you people don’t have