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[-] Sol0WingPixy@ttrpg.network 279 points 1 year ago

I feel this needs to be stated: the 3 year old definitely already had cavities.

The classic “detecting problems is what causes them” fallacy.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Very rough quote of the former "leader of the free world", 'stop testng for covid and we will have less cases'.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 year ago

I believe he actually said "we have so many cases because we do so much testing". Actually I think he said them both, what I quoted and then followed with yours. What an ultra-maroon.

[-] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He also said "stop reporting the death counts, it's making me look bad"

And the infamous "it's no worse than flu, it will be gone by spring [2020]..."

Oh and that drinking bleach would cure it.

[-] paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

He also endorsed ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, he said monoclonal antibodies were a miracle cure, he said warm weather would make COVID go away, he said COVID was a hoax by Democrats, he said one day it would miraculously disappear, he tasked his lead scientists with bringing UV light inside the body, he bragged that he would have been a great scientist because he had an uncle at MIT, he insisted on a mid-pandemic Rose Garden party were people couldn't wear masks, he got Herman Cain killed....

It's just such a long list of complete idiocy.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Oh right, I totally forgot about the suggestion to shine a very bright light inside the body, or use bleach. Fucking dip shit.

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, my brain's still stuck on the north Korea commemorative coins. Everything else is a blur.

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 year ago

"We need to stop the testing so we don't have so many COVID cases."

[-] guacupado@lemmy.world 99 points 1 year ago

How the fuck does a 3 year old get any cavities, much less 10?

[-] lgmjon64@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago

Oooh boy, let me introduce you to the joy that is pediatric dentistry. I perform anesthesia at some peds dental places. Not unheard of to put full crowns or multiple extractions on kids under 3. I'm talking like at least one a day is that bad.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Aren't their teeth just going to fall out? Why put them through the pain of a crown instead of just pulling it?

[-] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

You also need your baby teeth to be present in order for your adult teeth to grow in properly. The entire jawbone changes as teeth grow and develop.

[-] sulgoth@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

It does become an open wound in a real gross place for a while after pulling, I'd think any doctor of any sort would like to keep that to a minimum. You also don't want to leave them bare without a crown because they'll still have them for a while at least and cavities hurt.

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[-] Diasl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 year ago

I've been sat on a bus after work one time (maybe 10 years ago now) and I saw a mother open a 2L bottle of coke and fill up a bottle with a teet and pass it to a kid who was no older than 3.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

What in the actual fuck? This is why education is important. Well, this is one example of why.

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago
[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My stomach hurts just reading that. Not sure if I should watch it or not.

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It's infuriating more than anything. There are a wide array of reasons why parents in this docu get to this point, but there was only one family I felt sad for, rather than enraged.

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[-] getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Diet and oral care are very important, even for babies and toddlers!

[-] Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

That is simply not true, about breast feeding and cavities. Studies show that there are other factors at play, mainly linked to socioeconomic status, sugary/starchy diet and whether their water has fluoride in it or not.

https://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/resources/breastfeeding-and-tooth-decay

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I love when people like this tell me how the gov poisons the water with fluoride in it... always fire back and say I like my teeth...

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Aye but then yous get those happy-valley-teeth that look like someone's taken a photo of your gob at ISO95376 tho 😂

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[-] Gazumi@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago

Village idiots would traditionally be cared for within the village. Today, they form social groups of their own.

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[-] Phanatik@kbin.social 64 points 1 year ago

Watched a video about SovCits once. It was wild hearing a British man complain about his constitutional rights being infringed.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 103 points 1 year ago

During Covid there were many Canadians arguing the first amendment was being violated by the government. The Canadian first amendment establishes Manitoba as a province of Canada.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m from the US and obviously education is different all over the world, but I always think back to the crazy high number of people that graduated high school with me that I knew who legitimately didn’t want to learn anything because they “would never use it in the real world”. And before I got off identified social media whenever I would see them post it was always something like this with a non existent grasp of how the world works.

I don’t even know if I have a point other than how do we even begin to fix a problem this invasive and embedded. I’m almost 40 and these folks are not going to accept any sort of reality anytime soon, but we need them to understand reality so we can address its threats we face as a species.

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[-] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

This is into the realm of semantics now but it isn't even called the first amendment.

From Wikipedia: An Act to amend and continue the Act 32–33 Victoria chapter 3; and to establish and provide for the Government of the Province of Manitoba, 1870.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

It really highlights how the information is prepared for idiots who don't understand what they are saying. They have no idea how to control their life so they look for the clearly labeled things like "legal" and "lawsuit". It's as if they think legalese is a form of magic that forces things to go their way.

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

No jurisdiction on stupidity.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

I love how this idiot can't quite comprehend the thought that the cavities were there when they took the kid away because they never got them dental care.

[-] Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Its the same dumb fuck energy behind testing makes the covid cases go up.

[-] OppositeOfOxymoron@infosec.pub 38 points 1 year ago

And I'm willing to bet she signed the petition to remove fluoride from the local tap water too.

[-] CeeBee@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

The interesting thing about fluoride and dental health stats, is that in most urban areas fluoride added to water accounts for something like less than 10% of cavity prevention.

But in poor towns and more rural areas, it can account for about 40% of cavity prevention.

Basically, higher income results in better dental care outcomes. Who knew, right?

[-] clegko@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Of note, many rural areas still survive on individual wells at houses.

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[-] leftzero@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mandrake:

Yes, Jack?

Ripper:

Have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?

Mandrake:

Well, no I... I can't say I have, Jack.

Ripper:

Vodka. That's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?

Mandrake:

Well I... I believe that's what they drink, Jack. Yes.

Ripper:

On no account will a commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.

Mandrake:

Oh, ah, yes. I don't quite.. see what you're getting at, Jack.

Ripper:

Water. That's what I'm getting at. Water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, you realize that.. seventy percent of you is water.

Mandrake:

Uhhh God...

Ripper:

And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.

Mandrake:

Yes. chuckles nervously

Ripper:

You beginning to understand?

Mandrake:

Yes. chuckles. begins laughing/crying quietly

Ripper:

Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?

Mandrake:

Well it did occur to me, Jack, yes.

Ripper:

Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?

Mandrake:

Ah, yes, I have heard of that, Jack. Yes.

Ripper:

Well do you now what it is?

Mandrake:

No. No, I don't know what it is. No.

Ripper:

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

(...)

Ripper:

Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridated water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake. Children's ice cream?

Mandrake:

Good Lord.

Ripper:

You know when fluoridation first began?

Mandrake:

No. No, I don't, Jack. No.

Ripper:

Nineteen hundred and forty six. Nineteen fortysix, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your postwar commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard core commie works.

Mandrake:

Jack... Jack, listen, tell me, ah... when did you first become, well, develop this theory.

Ripper:

Well, I ah, I I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.

Mandrake:

sighs fearfully

Ripper:

Yes a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly: loss of essence.

Mandrake:

Yes...

Ripper:

I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women... women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.

— From Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

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[-] gladflag@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago

my offspring

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure what this has to do with sovereign citizen. This is more anti-science, anti-intellect than anything. Especially since they are asking about foster care laws.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

I mean I got this off a sovcit Facebook group.

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[-] guacupado@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

They're the same picture.

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

I would assume they are a “sovereign citizen” nut and had their kid taken away

[-] holycrap@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

It's been 3 years, has there been any followup?

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Yes she abducted the kids when she was told they'd be apprehended, but then they were rescued and have been in safe homes since.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those poor kids. Most of us are fucked up enough without having such a totally fucked childhood....

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