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Do you consider Lemmy/Reddit (and similar platforms) to be social media?
  • I don't consider them social media.

    Virtually nothing on it is about the poster, and that's mostly how I see social media. Even more baffling is people calling YouTube social media.

    Two important caveats though.

    1. maybe r/JohnQSmith type things are prevalent just not in my experience. There's plenty of content I've never seen.

    2. The descriptivists won the day, so language is about what people do say not what people should say. If people call it that and the dictionary or whatever says something different, the speakers aren't wrong. The dictionary is wrong.

  • Biden Says Trump Will Not Accept 2024 Result: ‘I Promise You He Won’t’
  • Haha yeah, good bit.

    I just wanted to be clear that just because we're both going to deny the election results if we lose doesn't mean we're at all similar in other regards.

    Sorry if I was a little defensive. Lot of "BWAH I DONT LIKE THIS" in the comments but zero "Actually I think we'll just say 'Well done Donnie, enjoy being president. See you in four years.'. Not even "Well if HE wins then it actually WILL have been rigged so of course we'll call it that.". All " boo" no content

  • Biden Says Trump Will Not Accept 2024 Result: ‘I Promise You He Won’t’
  • Heh, fair. I do think 9999/10,000 is about right but I don't know you enough to trust you enough to make odds.

    Tell you what. One sided free money bet. If you claim WMP will just say "Well, guess we lost this one" and not say the race was rigged (is this your claim? You still haven't claimed it yet I think) I'll come back in November with a post titled "CoggyMcFee I'm Calling You Out!" linking this post.

    If Biden wins, so much the better for the world. If GOP doesn't accept it we're both winners, no trade. If GOP accepts it we're both losers, no trade.

    If Trump wins, God help us, and WMP just says "Congratulations, hope we win next time" I'll give $500 to your favorite charity, or half that to anyone I can't write off, yourself included.

    If Trump wins and WMP says the election was rigged, well, you haven't agreed to anything and owe me nothing. If you feel honor bound, my charity is OSI the Open Space Institute.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market

    If I forget call my ass out. If Trump wins frankly we have bigger problems but I'll pay.

  • Biden Says Trump Will Not Accept 2024 Result: ‘I Promise You He Won’t’
  • Not sure "lecturing" is accurate but sure, I'll allow it.

    For the record, is it your claim that if Trump wins, we will just accept it as the results of a free and fair election? Just "Welp, guess the voters were in your favor this time Donnie. Good game. We'll try to bring it in four years!" right?

    Also for the record we agree that Trump could get no states and 30% of the popular vote and still say it was fixed and he should have won right? Honestly that's the result I predict most likely so the experiment will likely be of no value. Just saying.

  • Do adults benefit from flouride?

    First let me be clear: I'm not a crazy conspiracy person (...on this) I just don't rely on a municipal well. As far as I know adding fluoride to the private well at my houses is not a thing, good or bad. I did drink municipal water for two years when I lived on campus in college.

    That said, is fluoride a benefit to adults or just children?

    When I was a kid I got fluoride treatments at the dentist, but then aged out. I've never had a cavity in forty years, but I'd like to keep it that way. Should I still be doing it?

    Also no, I'm not using the internet as a substitute for a dentist, just my next dental appointment is in four months. TIA

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