wp:Water fluoridation by country#Europe

Out of a population of about three-quarters of a billion, under 14 million people (approximately 2%) in Europe receive artificially-fluoridated water. Those people are in the UK (5,797,000), Republic of Ireland (4,780,000), Spain (4,250,000), and Serbia (300,000).[27]

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Many European countries have rejected water fluoridation, including: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland,[68] Scotland,[69] Iceland, and Italy.[70] A 2003 survey of over 500 Europeans from 16 countries concluded that “the vast majority of people opposed water fluoridation”.[71]

The important thing is that he gets rewarded for supporting Trump: issues such as the health of Americans are at best secondary to this.

The dead don’t care.

As if Republicans and Christian conservatives cared about innocent people being ruined by the government.

What does this have to do what u/Stovetop said?

maybe do a few years picking cotton, with ex-slaves as overseers.

maybe it stays as a golf course, but no use of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, heavily limits on fertilizer use, no watering except collected rainwater, rainwater, and/or tertiary treated sewage, nothing motorized, and nothing electric except from more environmental sources—maybe have a few wind turbines there—and/or wp:nickel-iron batteries.

The activists and/or allies might get sued by Rowling and her publisher(s) (and whatever production company(/ies) that make her movies) would argue that the activists are stealing money from Rowling.

If they are right, Rowling suffers.

If they aren’t, it might undermine their arguments about copyright.

Either way, the political left (and much of the libertarian movement—the non-richies, in this matter) wins.

What would happen if some TG activists and/or allies set up a combined small publishing house and retail store that sold copies of her books without permission or royalties paid, perhaps even DVDs of her movies?

either her or a surrogate.

from wp:Don’t be evil to Too Big To Care.

wp:Robert E. Lee#Postbellum life

After the war, Lee was not arrested or punished (although he was indicted),[136] but he did lose the right to vote as well as some property. Lee’s prewar family home, the Custis-Lee Mansion, was seized by Union forces during the war and turned into Arlington National Cemetery, and his family was not compensated until more than a decade after his death.[137]

Yeah?!?

What’s the Wall Street riffraff gonna do about it?

Support Democrats in 2026 and 2028?

Ha!

You suits supported him last year, now on your knees bitches, and kiss Don Trump’s ring!

They lure girls and young women with invitations to business trips and promises of high pay, using expensive clothes, jewelry and perfumes as a draw for these poor young people.

Stay away from these groomers, young ladies: it ain’t worth it.

though understandable as bike lanes are quite a bit cheaper than building public transit from scratch.

Why, confusing me for a chap from our colony, how quaint.

wt:lorry#Noun

1. (British, Ireland, South Asia, Africa) A large and heavy motor vehicle designed to carry goods or soldiers; a truck

also this:

https://youtu.be/3CPu9c1Qp6c?t=560 (cued, for several seconds)

😁🙂

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Oh, Not Just Bikes has a video on Finns vs. Canadians.

Thanks for the link. 🙂

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How do cities decide on which busses to buy?

The selection probably isn’t as good as cars.

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Who will build a bridge?

idk. Maybe some mafia front that under-bids, but raises the price when they’re halfway done?

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I understand that it’s harder to fix what’s fucked up than to improve what was still functional but “oh it’s hard” is not an argument with which you can counter “it’s better”. I never said it would be easy.

I was agreeing with your statement “though understandable as bike lanes are quite a bit cheaper than building public transit from scratch.”

FWIW,

Explaining Jokes to Idiots: Oscars Edition | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-c2eUltH58

9:40

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(To be clear, I’m not saying you’re an idiot (and I’ve thought mowhawks were/are cool for decades). 😁🙂)

Maybe such children in such camps should be adopted by Kurds, Copts, and/or lesbian feminists.

Cars don’t belong in cities

I didn’t. You need streets for at least the fire brigade, ambulances, tradespeople, (parcel) delivery, and the occasional taxi. Moving vans. Even lorries supplying shops, can’t have a cargo tram everywhere.

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You’re back-tracking: now you are allowing, however intelligently, for cars in some instances

You also sound British, which no offense, but it’s a country that doesn’t have cities that get as hot (or hot and humid) as say, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Antonio, New Orleans, Atlanta, or Orlando.

or as cold as, say, St. Paul, maybe Anchorage, Chicago, or Buffalo;

and that’s just the US. No cars within Toronto city limits wouldn’t work well. Ditto Moscow, probably Kyiv, Warsaw, Mumbai, Brisbane, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, Dubai, et al, either.

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What we definitely don’t need is parents driving 12yolds to school.

I mostly agree. As a person older than 70% of North Americans, I think the nerfing of society can cause problems.

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How about we make it a municipal utility.

Okay. Now let’s say it’s a city with over 1 million people, and the experts say minimally one car per 400, or 2500 cars needed for rent. Which company will get the contract to sell the city those ≥2500 cars—Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota, BMW, Tesla, or a Chinese variant? The one that lobbies best?

How about allow licensing of rent-a-cars? Existing ones are grandfathered in for 20 years without plates, but others pay, say, £10 000 + £2000 every year for a license to rent. Obviously they’d also have to have good insurance.

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It’s actually habit, formed at an early age. Bike is how I got to primary school, which was possible because some committee designed the city in a way that it was possible (distance) as well as safe. I do have a driving license, lessons etc. cost a good 2k Euro back them, never owned a car. Haven’t driven in ages.

Perhaps, and good for you. My point was more of individual effort. Chances are, where you’re from, there were people who’d cycle in pretty well any condition, and insisted on the right to cycle. They were the reason some authorities made accommodations, which in turn made cycling seem more viable to more people, thus increasing the number of cyclists. Such were incremental—a bike lane here, a bike lane there—nothing that required >£1 billion (or >€1 billion)—and eventually cyclists got a bit of an infrastructure and proposals for more expensive projects got more considered—but one way or another, people will be cycling—the only question is how to increase it.

smacked it real good.

perhaps an action-comedy where the funny not-so-bad villain dies a horrible death, after said villain makes a bad joke about Will Smith’s character’s wife.

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(and maybe watch it years after the release lest Hollywood gets the wrong idea about its popularity and the aging has made it worse. 😁🙂)