There is no spoon. Get bent.
Rivalarrival
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was just a standard residential setup,
The distinction is important because we are discussing IPv6. A "standard residential setup" with IPv6 would provide the user with an entire subnet rather than a single IP address. We still need a router to pass traffic from the ISP's network to our own network, but we no longer need NAT.
With or without fluoridated water, the poorest kids have the worst dental health. Fluoridated water significantly - but only partially - improves dental health for the poorest kids.
Rural kids on private, non-fluoridated wells have sufficient dental health despite no access to fluoridated water. They get the majority of their fluoride the same place you get the bulk of your fluoride: toothpaste.
If we are going to rely on passive fluoridation instead of toothpaste, salt is a superior delivery method. Fluoridated salt is used to reach nearly 100% of the populace in many countries, At most, fluoridated water is only available to about 80% of the US. Fluoridated salt allows higher concentrations of fluoride in saliva with lower total consumption.
We only use fluoridated water to duplicate the original discovery. It's actually a piss-poor delivery method.
These are the most vulnerable populations with limited access to dental care (at home and professional).
This "limited access" should be pissing you off infinitely more. Anything less than the "access" you are talking about should be considered neglect. Fluoridated water is only beneficial if we are actively neglecting out kids. When we stop neglecting them, fluoridated water serves no purpose.
It'll take you public IP and translate those packets to use your internal one.
That is NAT, yes. But that is only one small function that a router can perform, and not all routers have NAT enabled. You only need NAT if your ISP only allows you to use a single IP address.
If your computer has an address that starts with 169, 168, or 10 there is a NAT somewhere in your network.
That's not actually true. I can create such a network without connecting it to the internet, no NAT. I can create a second network, again, no NAT. I can then use a gateway router that allows any node on the first network to reach any node on the second. That router is still not doing any NAT. It's just passing traffic between two networks.
Well, you're not exactly robbing the cradle, and she's not exactly robbing the grave.
Go for it.
Fluoride is beneficial. Putting fluoride in something that we use is beneficial. But, once you put reasonable concentrations in toothpaste, the trace amounts in water provide no additional benefit.
I'm not saying we should get rid of fluoridation. I'm not saying we should keep it. I'm saying that there is no good reason for outrage one way or another.
Fluoridated water is not an adequate replacement for proper dental hygiene. Getting toothpaste and toothbrushes to poor people is infinitely more important than fluoridated water, and I'll save my own outrage for universal healthcare, including dental.
This particular hill ain't worth dying on.
Sure, but it's skidding across the pavement, not flying at my face at 75mph. I can stop faster than it can.
Terrifying is the video I saw of bricks falling off of an oncoming truck, coming through the windshield.
I've seen slings used to throw things. Either ropes attached to the projectile, or pouches on ropes designed to release the projectile.
I've also seen those slings not throw the "grenade" 200 yards away, but straight up in the air, or wrapping around branches or arms or flying backwards...
Slings require just enough skill that they would probably be more lethal to friend than foe.
They've got the M203 grenade launcher that attaches to their rifle, effective to 382 yards. They've got the M224 mortar that can be operated in a handheld configuration, and is effective from 70 to ~3812 yards.
Somewhere between Quartz and Topaz.
Ice cream needs to be served at 5 to 10F (-15C to -12C), so the freezer in your kitchen should be around that.
Long-term storage should be -5F to 0F (-21C to -18C), so your deep freezer should be around that. Colder is OK, but not really necessary.
Fluoridated Salt. Toothpaste. Universal healthcare. I keep throwing out vastly superior options, and you keep coming back to the status quo.
Pivot toward progress. They want to kill off a program. What would you need them to agree to before yoy would be willing to let it go?
Fluoridated water only benefits neglected kids. If we didn't have neglected kids, we wouldn't need fluoridated water. What can we do to ensure kids aren't neglected? Let's pivot to that. Let's demand that.
They can get their "win" on something that doesn't matter, and we can get our win on something that actually does.
Progress. To hell with the status quo.