There’s other ways to do that too. Kids here (Netherlands) get fluoride treatments from a young age (after their adult teeth have come through, I think) up to 18. It’s not particularly enjoyable but like you said, it benefits you for the rest of your life.

Free/affordable healthcare means checkups at the dentist about every 6 months. After the checkup you get these two small jaw shaped containers (for upper and lower sides) filled with a fluoride paste and you just sit there for a few minutes drooling into a metal bowl. There’s even flavours but they’re all gross, haha. Apparently that’s on purpose so you don’t swallow too much.

Anyway, this whole fluoride in the water thing appears to be a very US based discussion, so I’ve got no horse in this race. I just wish the US had better, more affordable healthcare to begin with.

Seconded.

Like the upper management and C-suite give a fuck about any of their employees.

This has to be fake, because birds aren’t real.

Exactly! If it were a generation ship however… That would’ve sucked.

As much as I’d love for people to do this, there’s probably a ton of software safeguards to prevent this. Even if you’d get around it, those greedy fuckers will undoubtedly void your warranty. And somehow that’s legal too.

Can the EU please do something here? This is BS.

Helectronic Parts?

You were doing great, until the last paragraph. Too bad.

I still have a PC copy of 2007(?) Sega Rally I can no longer play because the DRM software is no longer supported in Windows.

Holy shit

My point was: There’s plenty of nerds who can be(come) just as corrupt or selfish as any politician. They also don’t necessarily work harder.

I would like some more tech literacy in politics though.

Dude, wtf, no? I’m not even American.

I’ve just seen plenty of stories about nerds who seem like “good guys” only to see them turn out to be selfish assholes the moment they become successful and start making big money. Especially with tech start-ups.

Although I gotta say, I’d love more nerds in office. The way most (boomer) politicians talk about technology is cringe and often completely without understanding.

Was the personal attack necessary btw? Yeesh…

Bold of you to assume there’s no socio- or psychopaths among nerds. Just look at the tech industry C-suite.

Oh, bother!

Yes, because profit is what’s so important and not part of creating the problem, right?

Why not use both?