stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

You got a pair of kwests on that thing?

The forehead meme is getting out of control

If your obscure film isn’t already on cinemageddon then that’s the place.

I’m not suggesting that dental care is widespread, only that the conditions which proscribe water supply fluoridation are no longer present and we shouldn’t be saying “no, keep the fluoridation” but instead “you’re right, municipal fluoridation is an outdated practice, fluoride rinse for children and free dental care for all!”

I’m saying administer it in schools like before.

What do you mean? In my admittedly limited experience less than ten percent of private wells get fluoridated. American housing has seen tremendous growth in areas not served by municipal water. Fluoridation becomes less effective with each passing year. Why not switch to targeting the treatment directly and close that gap?

It does but not near as much as it does in children who are building up enamel much faster. The whole point of water supply fluoridation was to reach children, not adults.

My point is that water supply fluoridation only made sense in a situation where you couldn’t reliably reach children and people didn’t have dental care. In a nation with mandatory public schooling and one which could easily provide dental care to children at the very least it is a goofy system.

Back when I was your age…

They brought fluoride concentrates with bubblegum flavor in little paper cups on a brown plastic tray for us to swish with for like five minutes or whatever in kindergarten.

I’ve met other people who got disposable arc shaped cups that someone would squeeze a fluoride gel out in and have them bite down into. That was how some dentists offices would do it too.

It’s a more targeted and effective way to make sure the people who benefit most (children) get the most intense and useful dosage in a controlled and precise way.

We don’t need to spray and pray into municipal water supplies now that there are more effective and reliable ways to reach people with preventative care. I think it’s actually counterproductive to rely on municipal water supplies because more and more Americans live out in the sticks on wells that don’t provide the treatment.

Of course, if we weren’t paying for massive amounts of industrial grade fluorine to dump into water supplies then the companies that make it would have to pay to dispose of it so it’s unlikely that better system of care will naturally come about under the perverse incentives of the market.

Why is there an argument with the right about this?

Just say “okay, we’re replacing fluoride in tap water with mandatory swish or bite plate application. It works better, costs less, has less chance of user error and it sidesteps all the legitimate concerns about over or mis application of fluorine.“

I’m not sneezing at it. It’s more than my use in a month, but I’m not trying to maximize my bandwidth use with 100gb of space.

Just as a thought experiment let’s assume you’re able to use the maximum amount of total bandwidth in a month with your 100gb storage. That’s 40 complete write cycles a month on your ssd.

Now there’s nuance to the idea of minimizing write cycles, the specific technology plays a big role and ssds that stay constantly powered on can avoid the worst degradation for a long time but:

That’s 480 write cycles a year.

No problem if you’re keeping the ssd always powered on, but you may end up with data loss if it’s in a laptop that gets turned off for a little bit.

That’s why I said a hard drive may be cheaper than Usenet or debrid over the course of a year. Because it’s a solution that kills a lot of birds with one stone.

You said in another comment that you have a 100gb hd and a 4tb monthly bandwidth cap?

Torrents probably aren’t the solution for you. Spend some time learning about newsgroups. It costs money but you aren’t expected to keep files after you download them or upload for everyone else.

I think realdebrid also does this but it also costs money.

You’re excluded from the informal economy because of your situation so you gotta participate in the formal economy. You could always buy a hard drive and set a bandwidth limit in your client too. I expect that would be cheaper over a year than either usenet or debrid.

You don’t know or understand what laws you may be in violation of. If you ask a lawyer they’ll advise you to stop doing crimes.

If you want to obscure your actions, switch to DoT or DoH and bind your torrent client or computer to a vpn with port forwarding. Don’t do just one. Use a paid vpn not owned by kape technologies because that umbrella company is an Israeli honeypot.

Turn off pex and dht and only use private trackers.

Lots of games do lag compensation. What you’re trying to do is get under their lag compensation wire, where they’ll do what’s possible to keep everything fair for everyone and you.

Someone already said to shoot for Singapore remote servers. That’s a good start. Make sure you have qsv or your computers equivalent of it to decode video quickly. The decoding time adds to your input lag because you can’t see the stream until it gets decoded for you.

Someone already said to look into the Chinese bizarro mobo/cpu combos built off of excess chips, prototypes and factory seconds. Bear in mind that support for these is nonexistent unless you read Chinese and sparse at best there. Bear in mind that a lot of the time the CPUs are soldered to the board so you can’t upgrade and have to be a little more careful when installing a heatsink. If you’ve been in the game long enough to pull a bare motherboard out of a dumpster and fiddle around with it until it works then the aliexpress computer pipeline might be a good one for you.

Check out the Chinese video cards too.

I have an alternative set of solutions though, and they’ve worked well so far:

Turn down the resolution. It makes a huge difference. Turn down the texture quality and post processing.

Alternately, stop playing new games. They’re so bad.

If you don’t want to turn down the music or stop listening to it, give the intel b series a look. They’re competent at 1440 and cost a fraction of what nvidia cards cost.

Yeah it’s unimportant how many requests go out.

A secure browser ought to phone home on startup (and honestly with as little overhead as requests incur nowadays, on tab open) and make sure it’s updated to the latest version, do a dns sanity check, etc.

I don’t even mind Firefox having ads in the default homepage.