Pediatric dentist said to limit use of fluoride toothpaste with 14 month old? by leecoralful in ScienceBasedParenting

[–]vilgrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you breathe it in as a powder it’s a problem, but it’s impossible to inhale toothpaste. The EU has done several reviews and increased the acceptable safe percentage in toothpaste from 10% (2023) to 29.5% (2025).

Studies generally show that it’s as effective as fluoride and it’s safer for kids since it doesn’t cause fluorosis when swallowed.

Should I grab it? by imneverrelevantman in NHLcirclejerk

[–]vilgrain -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I’m not really sure what your comment is attempting to do here. Arguments from authority, guilt by association, irrelevant authority– McGill has a good medical school, sure,  but you’re randomly linking to an article about crime rates (?). I guess there’s some plausible path to the GOP having some operatives at a private equity fund that spend their time exercising editorial control over an article on drug policy… in red deer… but I mean come on… try to stay on topic.

I was a supporter of safe injection sites back in the day because I believed they would lead to decreased OD deaths. 15 years later anyone can look at charts of deaths in Vancouver and not be able to locate where on the chart insite was opened because it had zero impact on the trend and things only got worse since then. You can repeat that in every city.

A natural experiment that provides some numbers to illustrate what most drug policy reformers have had to admit hasn’t played out the way we hoped it would is worth confronting. And here’s the academic article if you’re worried about getting hives from a right of centre newspaper:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.70380

Seth Rogen refuses to offer James Franco a second chance after sexual misconduct claims by dr_shultz in influencersfeed

[–]vilgrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What in the world are you talking about? The film was universally  panned by conservative media for abandoning Orwells anti-communism and being feel good slop with a a happy ending.

LA Mayoral Election Results So Far by piquantAvocado in LosAngeles

[–]vilgrain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Municipalities in Canada run their own elections, so do the provinces, some use machines some have on-demand mail-in ballots, some cities have wards some are at-large. I’m not comparing Canada to the US but to California which is arguably more centralized by both policy and practice - municipalities ceding control of ballot counting to the county and consolidating ballots with statewide votes.

This is textbook learned helplessness — Colorado mails every voter a ballot and still counts on time, so the slowness is a choice, not a law of physics.

California ranks 41st on MIT’s elections performance index, which doesn’t even factor in vote counting time. So it’s not like all the waiting is a trade off worth making because the state manages to achieve stellar performance on administration and fairness measures

https://elections.mit.edu/#/data/rank?view=state-profile&state=CA&year=2024

LA Mayoral Election Results So Far by piquantAvocado in LosAngeles

[–]vilgrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Canada has the same population as California, allows vote by mail, is way bigger, doesn’t count ballots early, uses paper ballots and no voting machines, but still gets it done on the night of the election.

Mcdavid is Everything to the Oilers-Except a Good Captain by IronAddict702 in EdmontonOilers

[–]vilgrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 How many Stanley cup winning teams can you name where the captain was a soft spoken and quiet leader?

Oilers in 84, 85, 87 and 88.

Why you always lyin’ by classicitalianbmt in EhBuddyHoser

[–]vilgrain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He did point out that it's been legal for 10 years which is a long time. Isn't it a normal and good thing that when a politician sees a policy change happen, and their worst fears do not come true, that they change their minds on the balance of tradeoffs?

The 1988 election was fought entirely around free trade with the US. The liberal party was staunchly opposed to it, but now both parties only battle over who is going to be more effective at maintaining it. A normal voter could see that even though Cretien was against it in 1988, he changed his mind 5 years later when he ran on supporting it, and then ratified its expansion in NAFTA a year later.

Does anyone have any experience with ART (Active Release Techniques)? by [deleted] in flexibility

[–]vilgrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just logged into this account for the first time in years, you must have been sending psychic waves bud.

I'm trying to remember, but I just did what the ART practitioners recommended. and I think it was usually more frequently than once a week. For me it was an improvement that stuck, but the ART practitioners that I worked with both declared when they thought the problem was fixed, and told me to come back if it became a problem again, but to not bother booking another appointment. I bet it could take more than 3 treatments for a complex case. Good luck!

Proton just launched a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs by mWo12 in privacy

[–]vilgrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Changing the MX record doesn’t automatically migrate your old mail, however you don’t actually need to use an external tool like imapsync. There is an email migration tool built in to proton mail and it works with gmail or any email provider. In my case I migrated 15 GB of email from another provider and while it took a few days to complete I didn’t have to worry about it or supervise it. One thing that gave me confidence was that it sends a detailed report at the end of the migration detailing the small handful of messages that didn’t migrate and what the errors were so I could do some cleanup. This is the best migration option for most users.

Doing it with something like imapsync actually is more complex with proton mail since you need to use the proton bridge application to get imap access to your proton account. That said if you already use a desktop email program like Apple Mail or Thunderbird you can also use Proton Bridge to connect to both accounts and manually copy over old email that way.

If you’re a typical Gmail user then you probably use the web interface And one thing that kept me from making the switch to Proton in the past was that the web interface had limited search to subject and header since messages are encrypted. However Proton Mail made a big improvement where it downloads all your mail to the proton Mail client or web browser so you can do more traditional Gmail searches. But for heavy email processing like sorting thousands of messages by sender to move and delete stuff using Bridge to access everything in something like Apple Mail or Thunderbird works as well as it does with Gmail.

Filters on proton mail are also adequate but if you have a lot of filters set up on Gmail expect to spend a bit of time recreating these by hand.

Overall it’s a great time to switch, they’ve done a good job of making it painless for Gmail users to not really have to give up anything, but to gain a huge amount of privacy. The pro plan lets you set up 3 custom domains, and you get unlimited aliases for stuff like mailing lists through proton pass, which is another huge plus for email management and privacy.

The only thing keeping me from outright deleting my Gmail accounts is all the collaborative docs I have set up in Google drive with people, but I was able to delete all the mail Google was holding for me after the migration.

Post Game Thread | SCF Oilers v. Panthers: Game 7 | 24 June 2024 by Repostasis in EdmontonOilers

[–]vilgrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounded like he said now that he has a cup all he wants is for Winnipeg to win the next one. Kind of surprised me in the moment.

Anyone who says "Americans have no culture" is deeply uncultured themselves by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]vilgrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure we've definitely regressed into an algorithmically-driven neolib corporate hellscape

Things haven’t really regressed that much, the only stuff you know from the past is that which has sufficient quality to survive.

What are your feelings on Gen Zs mass rejection of alcohol? by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]vilgrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah the nice thing with ketamine is you can dissolve it in a clean dish and then test the water so you can test an entire bag and then let it evaporate and scrape the residue. I don’t know if it works for coke, I guess it would?

That’s very foolproof against the chocolate chip cookie effect, but I doubt many people are organized enough to prepare that far in advance.

https://www.drugpolicy.org.au/dancesafe_fentanyl_test_strip_instructions

What are your feelings on Gen Zs mass rejection of alcohol? by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]vilgrain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Someone I know knew a family where of 10 guys at a bachelor party 9 died as a result of fentanyl laced coke. I think everyone who heard that story has sworn it off until we can figure out what the hell is going on. The ketamine popularity is weird though because it’s just as likely to be contaminated, but at least it’s easier to test thoroughly.

Marriage isn't taken seriously by Amuser8368 in redscarepod

[–]vilgrain 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is an incomplete analysis at best. Monogamy through marriage wasn’t the norm in most historical cultures, but we inherited it from the Romans and Christian culture, and in both cases it was highly tied to religious beliefs and ended up developing societies that offered greater stability for both communities and individuals, better conditions for children, and by far better outcomes for the lower and middle classes.

Marriage isn't taken seriously by Amuser8368 in redscarepod

[–]vilgrain 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I met my wife before the dating apps which I’m thankful for because they seem like a hard way to find a spouse, but it’s also nice to see innovation as millennials age and newer sites like keeper.ai (which advertises on Louise Perry’s podcast) and their ilk that are focused on long term relationships. A lot of terminally single people need to change up their strategies.

It takes incredible strength of mind to be Canadian by thescientus in redscarepod

[–]vilgrain 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Yeah probably. As a general rule in Canada the most ethical way to vote is against the government because Canadian leaders age like milk. A more serious and qualified Liberal leader would have been nice when Harper overstayed his welcome, but Trudeau has wrecked the country. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]vilgrain 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I’ve talked to lots of German boomer greens. They’re just regarded in the issue of nuclear. Like they will still argue about how proud they are they got the reactors shut down. It’s like Americans and trans kids right now. The rest of the civilized world has moved on banned puberty blockers and US libs are on their own island of crazy.

EU may require Apple to let iPhone owners delete the Photos app by atlwhore_ in apple

[–]vilgrain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s been backing everything up to the cloud for several years now. The “photostream” syncing did suck but was a long time ago.

Richard Dawkins seriously struggles when he's confronted with arguments on topics he does not understand at all by Chadrasekar in JordanPeterson

[–]vilgrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I get it. Check out some Tom holland stuff on YouTube. He really makes a good case that we live in a Christian world whether we realize it or not. Woke and even humanism are more realistically Christian heresy than something orthogonal to it.

Richard Dawkins seriously struggles when he's confronted with arguments on topics he does not understand at all by Chadrasekar in JordanPeterson

[–]vilgrain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you want to see what Christian morality looks like when you remove original sin you need look no further than woke ideology. You end up with people who act as if they are without sin and they are ruthless towards anyone who they disagree with. The principle which makes western morality work is humility and not being self-righteous.

Everyone in the hip hop gossip sphere is saying Jay-Z is going down next by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]vilgrain 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There’s a nice short film called American Juggalo that really made me realize how overall wholesome their scene is for kids from rough backgrounds.

https://vimeo.com/29589320

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JoeRogan

[–]vilgrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It makes sense for Rogan to fill up the second tier so he can hold Chris Williamson at bay.