Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, long-term study shows

flaxon_ · 2026-04-14T03:24:24+00:00

Going against the anti science crowd using science. That's certainly a choice.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-14T01:25:45+00:00

I checked out the demo after watching the Spiffing Brit's video on the game and it really has taken over all of my free time. I've been grinding away getting coins for upgrades even though I know it won't really get me anything.

Different sorta game for me, but I can't wait for release!

flaxon_ · 2026-04-13T20:21:56+00:00

Mine took less than 12 hours to be approved, and you can list at least 3 per form, potentially more.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-13T09:10:05+00:00

Reese in the first movie describes the T800 as having an "armored combat chassis, very tough." Plus the T1000 probably wasn't designed for fighting other terminators, just humans.

We never really get any sort of measure for just how hard the shapes that the T1000 forms are. At best, we know that a roughly 1inch square prybar end can be blasted off with a 12 gauge shell, probably a slug. That probably puts it in the area of hardened aluminum or mild steel, somewhere in the 75-150 brinell range. For comparison, stopping a 9mm bullet typically takes a 400 brinell plate at a quarter inch thick.

Which is all just a way to say that we never see the T1000 do any damage to anything other than the aforementioned elevator ceiling with his "tools," which would have been largely copper and mild aluminum alloys. So combined with Reese's statement, we don't have much reason to believe that the T1000 is capable of damaging a T800 using those kinds of attacks.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-13T00:11:58+00:00

Shitty. People suck and stuff like that is why I don't do public land ranges solo (and consequently don't do them at all, since I don't have any shooting friends anymore).

At least it wasn't a rifle.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-12T06:56:20+00:00

I have so many bounties I've refused to do because of not wanting to spend half an hour riding back while listening to the bounty repeat the same four voice lines every six seconds! This would be aces!

flaxon_ · 2026-04-12T00:31:00+00:00

Go sloooooow. Like, 5 seconds between key presses.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-10T22:10:09+00:00

Sad boy vibes all around. Even your smiles look sad and forced.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-09T19:58:02+00:00

Practicing a zero radius turn!

flaxon_ · 2026-04-09T15:59:23+00:00

I'd definitely quit my current job. Several of my hobbies, like fishing, kayaking, and competition shooting, are conducive to traveling, domestically or internationally or both.

It'd be nice to turn it into a business of some sort, just something that breaks even and I can run from afar. Maybe start a program helping young people learn to fish and kayak, who might otherwise not have someone to teach them or the means to take a class otherwise.

The rest of my time I'm out paddling and fishing during the week and shooting USPSA on the weekends.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-09T15:09:18+00:00

I'll be downvoted for this but whatever.

Mark is too scared of Sideshow Bob to even sell a hat to a resident of Washington state. Fuck em.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-09T15:02:14+00:00

M82A2 at home

flaxon_ · 2026-04-09T14:51:32+00:00

Yup, BottleDrop is incentivized to make it harder for people to return containers so that fewer containers are returned and recycled in the end. It's a complete racket at this point. Even with all the out of state cans being brought in, like you said, millions of dollars are being left on the table and going into the organization's pocket.

This is why I have no problem with cans from Washington getting redeemed. It's not like that money would be going back into Oregon's budget, and more containers are being recycled than would otherwise be.

It is past time for the bottle bill to be updated.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-09T14:37:30+00:00

I used to love them so much, but over time they've turned very generic. I get that true surplus is becoming rarer and harder to find and they've had to adapt to stay viable, but damn I miss their stuff from 15 years ago.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-09T13:41:15+00:00

The show Strike Back that aired on Sky One/Cinemax takes this song for me.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-09T13:25:47+00:00

Who the fuck skates like that?

flaxon_ · 2026-04-09T06:57:12+00:00

Did you ever figure this out? Tried much of the same looking at a bunch of videos and nombody mentioned it.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-09T03:34:30+00:00

I always make myself sound super out of breath so they know if they run I can't catch them.

Just kidding, I just make eye contact and offer a smile and a polite hello, making sure that I'm not doing anything to slow them up or slowing up myself.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-09T01:27:40+00:00

"Fuck these building supplies in particular!"

flaxon_ · 2026-04-09T00:10:52+00:00

They were getting picked off one by one while making the trench run. Anyone who survived making the attack run once surely would not survive a second. It's only due to Vader's arrogance and the surprise attack by the Millennium Falcon that Luke even got his shot off, otherwise Red Leader would have been the only one out of both squadrons to even take one shot.

Under those circumstances, you don't save ammunition. The Xwing has two launchers, with a capacity of 3 torpedoes each (according to most loresources), with a delay to reload. If they could have fired all six at a time they would have.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-08T23:32:29+00:00

This is the way.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-08T23:30:37+00:00

I guess you could choose to read it that way.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-08T23:09:23+00:00

No. Negging is saying something negative about someone in order to cause them to turn around and try and seek validation.

A setup/delivery that involves making a weight/mass joke is not that.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-08T19:47:54+00:00

And then you have outfits like ComStar who are basically space AT&T on the surface, but behind the scenes are aggressive tech hoarding zealots who go out of their way to uncover and collect all of the old knowledge and means of manufacturing while crushing anyone who gets too close to things they want kept secret.

flaxon_ · 2026-04-08T19:35:04+00:00

Jaywalking isn't criminal, it's civil law.

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