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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not sure why you're being downvoted. The anecdote happens to parallel the scientific consensus, but "I'm told that dentists can tell" isn't an appropriate argument when discussing medical research.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

The link above is not reputable and was directly refuted by, among others, the American Dental Association, the American Dental Education Association, the American Association for Dental Research, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine itself. From the response letter signed by the dean of the HSDM:

The magazine article states that CWF “does not appear to have any benefits in adults” based on the results of the Cochrane systematic review. However, the Cochrane review did not make this conclusion. Rather, the review specifically states “We did not identify any evidence, meeting the review’s inclusion criteria, to determine the effectiveness of water fluoridation for preventing caries in adults.” Due to the lack of studies that met the inclusion criteria, the Cochrane authors were not able to make any conclusion on the effect of CWF on adults. In fact, there are studies that were not included in the Cochrane review that demonstrate a caries preventive benefit of CWF in adults.

See the letter I linked for the studies it's referencing with a demonstrated benefit to adult teeth. The Cochrane review's inability to conclude whether there was a benefit or not was a limitation of the Cochrane review's inclusion criteria, and not an absence of studies indicating a benefit.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The source is not as reputable as it appears. The article in question is not from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and in fact was condemned by the HSDM. The actual dental experts at Harvard requested a formal retraction of the article: "Based on the significant flaws in the magazine article, we respectfully request that the article be rescinded, and a correction be published to clarify any misleading information that was provided."

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago

Thank you for the link. It's worth mentioning that there are response letters to the publication you linked from other experts, the majority of which are critical and point out misinterpretations and omissions by the author. It's always good to question, but in this instance it looks like the consensus amongst experts evaluating that publication is still that fluoridation is safe and improves dental health. The response letters can be read here.

Edit to add: The responses include a letter from the dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine stating that the publication is deeply flawed and requesting a retraction, and a similar condemnation from the students of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. The article was given greater weight by being linked to Harvard, but in fact Harvard dental experts explicitly disagree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Hand of Juno just released their first album, Psychotic Banana, and I've been binging it for a solid two weeks. Good mix of heavy and melodic, and good variation between songs. Got its hooks in me.

I will say, some songs are different enough that they almost sound like different artists, so if you check them out it's worth trying a few tracks. "Polline" and "Destroy the Line" are my favorite heavy songs. "The One", "We've Built the Line", and "Not a Game" are my favorites on the melodic side.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago

I'm assuming, given that the water company's reaction included a threat for immediate disconnection, that this is not for the first month of service. It's just the first time they "paid".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

One of my all-time favorites!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Twitch (and YouTube currently) switches to a new content stream to play an ad, which is easy to detect and block in an extension. If I understand the tech correctly, server side ads would be stitched into the playing content stream. The extension would have to know the content of the video to know that an ad is playing. There are some clever ways that might be caught (looking for spikes in bitrate, volume differences, etc), but none of that currently exists in the software in the OP.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago

Save someone else having to look up the conversion: 1700 metric years is roughly 3092 years fahrenheit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ah, yeah I see it now. That one in the upper right could possibly be a dragon tongue, but the green beans in the foreground 100% are not.

Immature pods on dt are skinnier, the purple is at its darkest, and they have a green tint. As they mature they lose the green and get more yellow between the purple, and when they're fully mature the purple fades and they become almost completely yellow/white. I thought you might have grown a different bean because you described them as stringy and said they weren't tender anymore by the time they developed their splotches, but my experience is that their splotches are darkest when they're immature, and they stay tender without any stringiness until the seeds inside are developed enough for the pods to bulge. Could just be a difference in climate for all I know (I'm in the high desert).

Attached picture is a pile of dt bean pods I harvested in various stages of ripeness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think you may have grown a different bean. I grow Dragon Tongue beans every year as garden snacks and they look pretty different than the OP picture.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

The small one's Stun, big one's Kill

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