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Some Anglosphere countries (USA, Canada, Ireland, Australia) love to add fluoride in water.

Not sure about the other countries you mentioned but wanted to note that not all cities in the United States add fluoride to their water systems. I’m in the U.S. in a city without fluoride water treatment, there are definitely others.

Do they put fluoride in your drinking water ?

No.

Are you happy with that?

Yes.

My understanding is that fluoride’s benefits are mainly as a topical treatment, meaning its best used as part of toothpaste or rinse.

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If you’re going that far back means those two friends in the same city were probably going to church (or some other religious gathering) fairly regularly and would likely see each other fairly often. Enough to be able to make other plans during the week. And yes, can’t tell someone you’re running late or not showing up… if you’re late you’re late, if you don’t appear then that’ll be a conversation next time at church.

Beyond that since they’re in the same city those friends likely go to the same pub(s) or other places and see each other that way.

Buying groceries and cooking.

Eh I don’t know how often that is the case, depends on the building :P

At one point the roommates and I were living in a house in Williamsburg with the owner living upstairs above us. The owner bought the house a few years prior, apparently the original owner did all the electrical work himself. You could tell everything was wonky, most of the outlets weren’t grounded, many outlets were installed upside down, two bedrooms along with the kitchen and bathroom were on the same circuit so half the apartment would lose electricity whenever someone ran a hair dryer in one room along with the toaster in the kitchen. The building’s circuit breakers were downstairs in someone else’s basement apartment so we got to know our downstairs neighbor pretty well, haha.

I used to wonder how that house passed inspection or if NYC even does those type of inspections. Eventually the owner re-sold the house and we had to move so that was that. But I get the feeling there are tons of old houses in Brooklyn/Queens like that.

I pay attention to the condition/cleanliness of the hallways and stairs in the building. If the owner can’t be bothered to maintain any of that then you already know the apartment itself is going to be a mess as soon as something goes wrong.

A bit harder to judge but if it looks like other tenants/random people make a habit of hanging out in the hallways/stairwells then that’s a massive red flag. One time I went to see an apartment and a guy inside the building on one of the stair landings was chilling out smoking a massive cigar next to the window… I knew right away that building is always going to have cigar smoke.

This one might sound silly but I have a habit of testing the water in the bathroom and kitchen. That tells me what the water pressure is like as well has how well the hot water is working.

Maybe a bit nit picky but I usually bring a tape measure and do some quick room measurements to figure out if furniture is going to fit & whatnot.

Oh and like the other comment said it definitely helps if you know what the area and the building surroundings are like at night.

ex-US Bonds, stocks, and ETFs. For U.S. consumers those types of funds are still USD denominated but they’d be focused on investing in corporations and government entities outside the U.S. Plenty of index funds are set up that way already (for stocks VXUS is one of them, for example).

When Samwise briefly carries the ring he gets visions of gardens and greenery ever expanding… in the cartoon it’s quite amusing.

If it was Bugs I’d suspect he’d just see carrots, carrots everywhere. The question is whether Bugs would snap out of it and be happy with the carrot(s) he already has, or keep the ring and have infinite power carrots :P

You can have things shipped to yourself at the hotel, it’s actually quite common e.g.

Firstname Lastname (Guest)
Fancy Hotel Name
123 This Street
This City, State, Zip Code

That said it might be helpful to notify the front desk that you plan to receive package(s) during your stay in the case they set up a different procedure for that.

Also be aware sometimes you’ll need to check in with the front desk or receiving department if there are any packages for you - More than a few receiving departments at hotels just don’t do the extra work to notify guests that packages arrived for them… this sometimes results in the guest checking out without ever knowing there was something waiting for them to pick up.

Yup I was going to comment the same. The physical passport might be useful after the fact once you’re in ICE holding being processed after x amount of hours/days. But then again at that point they would look you up in their systems so having the physical passport in your wallet may end up being a waste of time anyway.

The fact is if the ICE goon squad you encounter feels like arresting and detaining US citizens they’re going to do it.

And that’s assuming the ICE goons don’t make up charges of assaulting them or similar, in which case I’m not sure if those US citizens being charged get released with a future court date or are detained indefinitely.

The mount terminal command should work. But I’d expect you should be able to right-click an .iso file and mount it that way too. I’m not on Linux Mint but can confirm with GNOME on Debian it’s easy enough to right-click the .iso file and select “Open With Disk Image Mounter”, Cinnamon on Linux Mint should be able to do the same or similar.

Also keep mind you’re probably going to need to do more than just mount a .iso disc image if you want to play an old Windows game on Linux. There’s a few ways to go about that but I’m not too familiar on the best approach when you’re not running Windows games through Steam.

I don’t have the book in front of me right now but I had thought the Ministry of Magic took care of that - meaning they sent wizards to bring her down from the sky, reverse the spell, and cast Obliviate on her and any other muggles that may have seen her in the sky. The Ministry of Magic knew right away that Harry Potter had practiced underage magic outside of school so it wouldn’t take long for wizards to appear at the location and figure out what happened.

Some of that is discussed in the conversation with Cornelius Fudge afterwards.

EDIT: The Fandom wiki mentions it https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Cornelius_Fudge#Targeting_Sirius_Black_and_rescuing_Marjorie_Dursley

Catholic schools in the 80’s did not have corporal punishment (certainly not the one I attended for a few years). I think that was something from an earlier time period.

To be fair you could just use a different Lemmy instance. From what you said I have a feeling you were on the .ml instance which does have that type of moderation :/

Either way glad you’re still in the Fediverse even if it’s not a Lemmy instance :)

Yes, a lot of us left during the API exodus. Reddit was already going downhill anyway with all the bot spam and shills, that’s probably even worse there nowadays.

Once in a while I do bring up old.reddit to read through some communities that haven’t caught on here (yet), or maybe something that comes up in a google search, but that hasn’t been enough to make me want to log back in there let alone post/comment on anything.

Probably sick of social media. I have a few friend requests/message requests I never bothered accepting since I’m preparing to delete those social media accounts anyway.

I primarily use Bandcamp and Quobuz. 7Digital also sells FLAC music but I don’t use that one too often (they only accept PayPal payments which usually blocks me from checkout).

I don’t know the exact payout to the artists from those sites but most likely Bandcamp Fridays would be the time to buy with the highest payout to the artists. But in general buying music files still earns artists more money vs streaming.

You’ve arrived at your childhood home after a surgery. Your mother has invited you to go for a swim in the pool. The one you always wanted since you were a child.

That is such an odd premise, people typically can’t go swimming in pools right after surgery. But maybe that’s part of the game’s plot, the mother is trying to kill their child via some waterborne infection.

The diameter of the holes are wider for pepper, but you’ll see many places put salt in them.

Oof, same for oregano and red pepper flakes. So many pizza places put those spices into shakers with holes that are too small, it’s maddening!