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That’s really interesting.

I’ve had a toothpaste ingredient called Novamin on my radar for a while now - it is not widely available in the U.S. and there’s some question as to it’s efficacy over regular toothpaste, but I’ve used it to more or less permanently address tooth sensitivity issues - so I’m a believer.

If this peptide could be used to boost the binding between calcium and phosphorus and your teeth, perhaps it could work in concert with regular toothpaste or novamin-containing toothpastes to help rebuild teeth that are weak or have small amounts of damage.

Can we get a law in place that says if you have to sue the government to stop some obvious bullshit, that you recover your legal fees?

I hope they find who keeps hiring all the chickens to work in the judicial department, so they can send them back to the farm.

No sir, you’re cured by edict of the government.

Hope you don’t need accommodations or assistance, because if you do, RFK might ship you off to a slave labor camp until your disability is no longer an issue.

Most likely. Unless you have testicles, in which case you may have testicular cancer.

In either situation, take another test or two, and then prepare to speak to medical professionals.

That’s actually really funny.

My sister used to work for a lender that did construction and real estate in one of the cities you mentioned. The company she worked for folded in 2009, so she banded together with some colleagues, pooled their client lists, and got a silent partner to open a new business a few miles down the road.
They ultimately didn’t wind up doing the same thing as the lender that folded, but are still doing lending-related work in those sectors.

Yeah… that’s not cool.

I have enough on my shoulders right now, but this evening I’ll make sure to check into this and if it hasn’t been handled, I’ll add my voice to the chorus.
(My voice has 0.1% more weight than anyone else’s, because I make monthly donations to their org since joining as a Lemmy user, but I did not sign up to support this.)

The focus on piracy is a smoke screen. It’s about capacity.

Build the capacity, and then just start growing that list of reasons things are blocked.

This is out of scope for this community, but the U.S. is amidst a coup.
I mean, literally, it’s being raided by a corporate stooge that is breaking all manner of laws to just reshape it in whatever image they see fit.
In a geopolitical sense, they’re trying to break relationships with close allies, and trying to isolate the country. We see that with the tariff threats, the withdrawal from WHO, the Paris Climate accords, and now with threats to withdraw/pull back from NATO. Domestically, it’s clear that businesses are bowing to Trump or facing government punishment. That much is evidenced by social media companies filtering search results, by media companies tepid criticism of Trump and by the lack of national coverage over anti-trump sentiment. We also see it in terms of the investigations that Trump and his cronies are trying to bring against NPR, of all things.

This is a play in the move to control information access in the U.S. After the media, and social media, which are now yolked, the open web is the next biggest threat to their coup.
And now this is the legislation they’re pushing.

You hit the nail right on the head.

As a person who lives in the U.S., the corporate ownership of the media is a huge problem. Pair that with the larger social media companies all censoring content now, and there’s no sense of ‘reality’ here anymore.

There are protests happening in major American cities, and they are only being covered by the local media of those cities, and their reach stymied online. It’s clear to me that the media is intentionally downplaying anti-Trump sentiment.

They don’t even have to imply it!

They can just define it with congressional districts or some arbitrary measure that clusters their desired groups and fragments their undesired groups.

Even if this wasn’t the actual, real end to even the charade of U.S. democracy, it would take at least a generation or two to “prove” those policies are hurtful in the courts.
What then? The damage is done. Infrastructure built. Certain groups given generational advantages, certain groups left behind.

Speaking as someone who has no concept of the culture of this community (hi from all!):
The only thing we take more seriously than safety here is producing top quality memes.

In the US, if you know someone’s address (which is trivially easy to find online) and their social security number, you can open credit cards online.
The number itself is considered secure, so knowledge of the number is assumed to be enough identity confirmation for most applications.