Water utility announces it’s ditching fluoride—then reveals it did so years ago
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Dental health in locations that do fluoridate their water versus those that don't are pretty stark. I'm sure it's a boon for business for dentists in the latter.
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Trumps dumb American under this regime of lies and stupidity. Nothing makes sense in the regime but Trumpers would follow Trump off a cliff, they just don’t care if he’s wrong or lies to them.
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"City sues water utility that ditched fluoride years ago with telling anyone"
Methinks something needs to be outed...
ETA: "Water utility announces it’s ditching fluoride—then reveals it did so years ago "
Looks like the A lost to the B. But this is what the people voted for. I love hammering that point home when the people who voted for it, suddenly say, "I didn’t vote for THIS!"
Yes, you did. You kept doing it because your daddy did it. Or because your friends did it. Or because you were too fucking lazy to inform yourself about the candidates, they positions, their politics, their past statements, and actions and all of the other things a RESPONSIBLE voter does as due diligence before any election. It's not enough to have the "right to vote". You have to vote right in the first place.
And most people don't bother. This is FAFO at the highest level, and they literally have no one to blame but themselves. I have sympathy for those who didn't vote for the fuckwits. None whatsoever for those who did.
Methinks something needs to be outed...
ETA: "Water utility announces it’s ditching fluoride—then reveals it did so years ago "
Looks like the A lost to the B. But this is what the people voted for. I love hammering that point home when the people who voted for it, suddenly say, "I didn’t vote for THIS!"
Yes, you did. You kept doing it because your daddy did it. Or because your friends did it. Or because you were too fucking lazy to inform yourself about the candidates, they positions, their politics, their past statements, and actions and all of the other things a RESPONSIBLE voter does as due diligence before any election. It's not enough to have the "right to vote". You have to vote right in the first place.
And most people don't bother. This is FAFO at the highest level, and they literally have no one to blame but themselves. I have sympathy for those who didn't vote for the fuckwits. None whatsoever for those who did.
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My preschoolers are, of course, very conscientious about brushing their teeth and using mouthwash several times a day.
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There is too much lawlessness all over the place these days. Lock em up. Take $$$ from them and unleash the civil liability suits. Then rinse repeat and let's move on to the next bunch.
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dumbest fucking country. next we'll be adding lead back to the gasoline cas it makes people feel warm and fuzzy
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damn, that really bites! hope the city didn't bite off more than they can chew with that lawsuit. city residents shouldn't have to put with this ongoing decay in public health--cities need laws with teeth to regulate rogue utilities effectively. no one should be allowed to brush something like this under the rug.
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So, can we look at the numbers here, and again demonstrate that dental health declined in the wake of this change, and that likely one or more children got a dental infection they may not have otherwise and could actually have died? Because that’s what happens. And we know this. And for some reason, idiots keep getting elected and have to learn it all over again.
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Guillotines were designed with the express intent of being humane. Pillories, on the other hand...
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I never would have expected Dr. Strangelove to age so poorly. When it was written, ranting about water fluoridation was suitable for indicating complete madness in a fictional character.
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Similarly to the evident confusion over 1984, it is apparently necessary to point out that Dr. Strangelove was not intended as an instruction manual.
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Maybe. But there isn't any shortage of mouthwashes and toothpastes that contain fluoride, or mouthwashes that don't contain alcohol.
Better off ensuring it's in the water, however, and not dependent on sometimes sketchy dental hygiene.
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These really are the some of the dumbest, cruelest, and most worthless human beings on the face of the earth. Literal fucking waste. Dog shit.
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Classic Alabama. On the interesting side their unethical behavior has created a case study opportunity to see if instances of tooth decay increased in the past three years before people knew they needed to find other sources of fluoride
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Is concern over precious bodily fluids still a good indicator?
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I had no idea! Thank you for that. Pillories it is then!
Weird amount of downvotes going on in this article.
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My father, in the USA, grew up on snow melt, no minerals, and no fluoridated toothpaste. Much later in life his dentist, who had to pull out all his teeth, blamed that.
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The situation worsens.
So, Jeff, what happened to the funds allocated to pay for fluoride?
So, Jeff, what happened to the funds allocated to pay for fluoride?
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I live in a small town that fluoridates our water and when I go to the city for my dental check up, which doesn't fluoridate, I constantly get asked about it because I don't have any cavities. It's such a safe and easy practice to protect our population.
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Americans want an empire, but we only accept paying for the violent bits. In 50 years we'll be absolutely indistinguishable from Russia, and the national narrative will be "see what China has done to us."
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Alternatively, Strangelove aged like wine.
The maniacs got what they wanted in the end, after all.
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In totally unrelated news, Board President Billy Jo Bob bought himself a new cadillac and a ce-ment pond.
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My late Mom was a dentist. She started practicing at around the time Dr. Strangelove was released, in which film a fluoride conspiracist is portrayed as a bug-eyed lunatic. And theatre audiences laughed. Because it was ridiculous. This shit was thoroughly evaluated as paranoid nonsense over SIXTY YEARS AGO. What is even happening?
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My instinct was to downvote this (seeming) nonsense. And in order to disprove it, I put "mouthwash" into US Amazon (delivery zip 90210) and checked if the first 15 results contained fluoride, 2/3 of them don't, I wouldn't call that "almost all" and I didn't check for alcohol, but I think that given this evidence, your comment is justified.
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A judge has issued a temporary restraining order requiring the water system to restore flouridation. https://www.wbrc.com/2026/03/30/judge-orders-central-alabama-water-restore-fluoride-drinking-water/
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Ever heard of the Scottish wedding gift ?
Back in the 18th and 19th century a well regarded gift for well off or upper class newlyweds was a set of dentures.
As you were going to lose them anyway what would be better than a new set of teeth to start you new life together
This of course first required all your remaining teeth to be pulled.
Its now commonly referred to as ‘the Scottish wedding gift’ because the practice apparently continued in certain communities in Scotland until mid 20th century
… but primarily only for the bride, (stop it!) as a kind of reverse dowery
Back in the 18th and 19th century a well regarded gift for well off or upper class newlyweds was a set of dentures.
As you were going to lose them anyway what would be better than a new set of teeth to start you new life together
This of course first required all your remaining teeth to be pulled.
Its now commonly referred to as ‘the Scottish wedding gift’ because the practice apparently continued in certain communities in Scotland until mid 20th century
… but primarily only for the bride, (stop it!) as a kind of reverse dowery
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Idiots. I had flourinaded water when I was growing up, and never had a cavity until age 40 when I moved to a new city that didn't do that to their water.
In my new city, my dentist's first comment after greeting me? "Your teeth are in great shape, you're one of those flouride babies". Yup and yup.
Same oral hygiene habits but the water changed. I know who to blame, idiots who think they know more than scientists.
In my new city, my dentist's first comment after greeting me? "Your teeth are in great shape, you're one of those flouride babies". Yup and yup.
Same oral hygiene habits but the water changed. I know who to blame, idiots who think they know more than scientists.
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Apparently in Alabama they get their science from Dr Strangelove as god intended.
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