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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Everytime this topic is mentioned people say the same things about how the critics of fluorinated municipal water don’t know how much it’s helped cavities and stuff. Someone once pointed out that it’s important to understand that their concern is on its effects on brain chemistry for which there’s evidence that it has toxic effects.

    Dental health is irrelevant so save your breath or at least know that it’s seen as a straw man argument. Personally, I looked it up and can see the potential for negative effects (imbalance in seratonin levels as per a .gov website). I still drink the fluoride water but do so with jaded resignation that I may be participating in the lead pipe experiment of my generation.











  • To add to this, there’s been evidence that as an individual accrues more wealth, their empathy response lessens over time.

    My arm chair psychologist hypothesis is that: as the individual sees their quality of life increase, they look at other human beings in deplorable conditions, and their empathy response atrophies in order to avoid cognitive dissonance.

    There’s a concept in the study of wealthy individuals which goes over their desire to hide impoverishment from their view.