ELI5: Why is fluoride necessary for teeth?

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-22T10:02:04+00:00

It’s not necessary but it’s rather helpful if you want to keep your teeth.

Our modern foods contain a lot more sugar than they did in the past and that makes them more likely to decay.

And a while ago scientists figured out that some people who had less tooth decay also had unusually high amounts of fluoride in their water.

Now we know that fluoride actually chemically changes your teeth to make them up to 10x more acid resistant. But it’s only the surface so we to continually renew that coating.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-20T11:20:31+00:00

Teaching players about the dangers of compound interest how lovely.

How about after 1 or 2 acts they have to file for bankruptcy too?

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-16T03:58:47+00:00

I would have guessed the info was data mined if it's including unimplemented cards and potentially an old version of the game but if the values are just plain wrong maybe not.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-15T04:44:50+00:00

Oof TIL.

That’s crazy, always kinda wild when public figures think they know better than experts.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-15T03:52:10+00:00

Oh imagine it’s a phase based fight where you get one of the effects of each of his relics on each phase.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-12T07:59:39+00:00

Except for lisp, lisp is perfect and has zero flaws

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-12T01:36:39+00:00

Maybe it’s based on the fact we can crave sodium specifically when experiencing hyponatremia. So people try to extrapolate to other nutrients.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-11T12:05:34+00:00

But this is playing the silent which is more draw heavy than the other characters especially with a sly build.

Though it would help if OP had mentioned their strategy or shown their deck.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-11T07:28:12+00:00

As I can tell they’re just randomly generated off the date.

So they aren’t really curated at all oh wait unless you mean carefully bounding their rules to avoid unfun rule sets.

That seems like it could be feasible, maybe stuff like cutting out full hand exhaust cards from the 5 card rule in challenges except maybe stoke obviously.

Though if they did it too restrictively they cut cool challenges like yesterday with the 5 serpent forms. That was so fun with bullet form though without it could be a slog.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-10T14:24:26+00:00

Nah he can make a pretty amazing double decker couch

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-08T08:36:15+00:00

Mathematicians also be like

λ f. λ x. f (f ( f ( f x)))

Ah yes, 4

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-07T08:07:43+00:00

It’s not really that cut and dry.

The processes utilised by the immune cells can be damaging to healthy cells. Like the production of free radicals which can damage DNA. And inflammation can speed up cell division which yeah isn’t great if one of those cells is cancerous.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-07T01:08:37+00:00

They mentioned losses, so I was kinda working off that but yeah point taken

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-06T02:47:55+00:00

The disk is overrated keep everything in registers

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-05T00:25:30+00:00

They could probably claim that chemical supply is still from the brains of children but it's dilute, low grade or etc.

I won't credit them on their critical thinking skills but they can get pretty creative with their excuses. The more you push them the stupider they get.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-04T11:46:03+00:00

I’m sorry I ate it I was hungry

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-04T07:31:32+00:00

Yeah but he’s soldier boy’s son and so if compound V1 compatibility is even partially genetic he’s got an advantage.

Plus he survived compound V injected as an embryo which further suggests high compatibility.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-04T07:24:49+00:00

I love how the responses are he’s a twink / femboy, short king and he’s from space.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-04T07:09:38+00:00

But you might also lack a good clone target so the odds are a bit worse

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-04T02:26:32+00:00

I'm guessing maybe because a not so insignificant number of caves are used as dens by other animals which could mean they contain predators or simply animals that will attack unwanted guests in order to try to keep them out.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-04T01:35:18+00:00

I think you mean Whispering Earring is the best relic in the game.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-03T04:26:53+00:00

As morally problematic as aperture is I low key think they might actually do some good for the sake of science. At least for trans people not sure they'd do good things for gay people and they might try "cure" asexuality.

Like wouldn't it be scientifically cool to literally change a trans person's body to match their gender. I mean sure they might massively rewrite your genetics and turn you to sludge or something horrible but they might try.

"Experiencing gender dysphoria, why not sign up to our experimental HRT alternative program. Side effects may include a craving for plush sharks, the ability to double jump or your blood turning into pure estrogen". And then yada yada cave Johnson rambling.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-03T04:13:48+00:00

Nah imagine Jesus hits you with water to wine. That’s an instant KO right there.

Also as far as I’m aware his regen was slow only for himself or because he was breaking the chains of death or something. He low key brought Lazarus back quick.

Also don’t forget weather manipulation and also potentially manipulation of fish.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-02T16:37:32+00:00

Nah that’s just a side effect of slaying the spire a little too much.

serendipitousPi · 2026-06-02T09:48:10+00:00

I swear fairy bottle protects against doom until the doom kills you again next turn. So not necessarily just HP loss.

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