man we are like 2 years away from putting lead back in the gasoline at this point
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It's got what lungs crave.
I hate to break it to you, but they never stopped using it in airplanes.
The dose makes the poison, we can see in blood lead levels over time that we've basically solved the problem by eliminating it from car exhaust, which we breathe pretty regularly.
If you live within 1 mile of an airport you will have high amounts of lead in your blood. Maybe not as much as before, but still higher than there should be.
We're finally able to start reducing that. Just last year, the FAA approved the use of unleaded aviation gasoline in all spark-ignition aircraft designed for 100-Low-Lead.
They've also fairly recently authorized compression-ignition ("diesel") engine swaps in some of the most popular piston-powered GA aircraft, allowing them to burn cheaper, more efficient jet fuel instead of gasoline.
Don't give them ideas.
lmao first state after UTAH, of all places. talk about a state whose whole economy relies on their smiles.. jesus joseph smith that's wild
Dumbest of the dumb. If you really want to belitin conspiracies and want to fight that machine, put Desantis and his wife in jail for diverting tax dollars to their pet projects.
Fluorida…
As long as I continue to brush with floride toothpaste, this shouldn't matter. Right?
Well, I'll say that most highly thought of European counties don't do it so, yeah, use fluoride toothpaste and you're gucci.
Most European countries including Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Scotland, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Switzerland do not fluoridate water.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country
Oh, despite us Finns not fluoridating water, there's quite a lot of it in well water.
Finland
Kuopio is the only community in Finland with at least 70,000 people that has ever had water fluoridated.[56] Kuopio stopped fluoridation in 1992.[86] In regions with rapakivi bedrock (small, but densely populated regions), 22% of well waters and 55% of drilled well waters exceed the legal limit of 1.5 mg/L; generally, surface and well waters have 0.5-2.0 mg/L fluoride in affected regions.
"we don't flouridate our water"
"Our water naturally has flouride"
Some of it.
So?
Most don't have any.
So it makes your point unclear. Are you saying that they have good teeth even with no flouride in the water and not using flouride toothpaste?
Yes.
There is no need to add fluoride to drinking water, even when fluoride is good for cavities.
It's not my problem if you want to have dirty teeth.
Wash your fucking teeth man
Oh, I see. I think I get the misunderstanding.
Poor people in this country have no money and no support. There's no free toothpaste fairy floating around giving out supplies. In some parts of the country there isn't even sewer lines.
But I understand, it's easy to mistake us for a first world country because you only see our media. We're not. We're a third world country with first world coasts.
Wash your fucking teeth man
You're privileged. Learn some creativity and empathy, or stop wasting the world's oxygen.
Do you think toothpaste from supermarkets is literally free in Finland? Boy, just how fucking dumb are you?
Looks like someone is mad and pretending to be a big boy.
Are you talking about the US?
In all aspects, you are a developing country. And I didn't even bring that up, you did.
https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scores-half-americans
I had heard people in Finland had anger management issues.
But that's my point. Many in the US simply can't afford it. Most in Finland can. So simply saying "brush your teeth", as if it's a personal failing, is just wrong.
I had heard people in Finland had anger management issues.
No you haven't, Finnish people don't have emotions, let alone emotional regulation, which would be required for an anger management issue.
But I understand that that particular argument might go over your head, seeing only 4/5 of you even read and half only make it to a sixth grade reading level.
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now
I've heard lots of American live on the street despite working full-time?
What are you doing about your hostile government takeover?
For the past 20 years I've been listening to barely literate bozos tell me how they need their guns, in case of a government takeover.
You're having one. Yet no-one has any balls to so anything about it.
So you agree. Our government is not taking care of its people, and therefore many don't have the resources for toothpaste.
And my anger management comment was based on my sole interaction with a Finnish person. Thank you for being that data point.
I know you wish to play the contrarianito, but your first comment is a snide reply which implies we have fluoride in our water.
I can see you're having some trouble with English. You said "you've heard". Now you're changing it be your personal observation? Flip-floppy, aren't we? Almost as if you don't actually have anything to say, contrarianito.
Lots of wells have fluoride above safe limits. That's why people don't usually drink well water, but have water actually piped into their houses, directly from a municipal water source.
I lnow you guys have bad education, but this is starting to get ridiculous. :D
Yeah, the amount of fluoride you need is miniscule. There hasn't really been much of a need for fluoridated water since fluoridated toothpastes became common in the 1960s.
There's nothing wrong with fluoridated water, and anyone with teeth certainly needs fluoride. But toothpaste and mouthwash are more than sufficient sources.
florida fell out of the news cycle after desantis abandoned his bid for the presidency.
Still, the Florida man that stopped a street fight via vehicular manslaughter, etc. has DeShittits beat, IMHO. That man is exemplary of his state. (Works both ways.)
especially with the news has been extremely quiet about the tariffs, canadian tourists boycotting hitting his state.
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