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When I was a child, right around 1970, Fluoride was a hot topic in my home.

My grandmother was a nurse, my grandfather worked in government.
That informed the lens of the families discussion.

My family discussed every theory, from conspiracy to scientific.
Because just a few decades prior it was even more hotly debated.

The fastest way to agitate a crowd/population of humans is to use something that once worked before, but has largely been ...

Many articles contain "20%" within their title.

For example:

More than 20% of Earth’s plants grow only on islands, global study finds
https://news.mongabay.com/short-arti...island-plants/

Google’s ’20% rule’ shows exactly how much time you should spend learning new skills—and why it works
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/16/goog...ew-skills.html
...

I've become a believer in the fact climate changes.
Oh wait, I always believed that (Ice Ages).

I believe temperature is trending higher at this moment in history.

And it's having a significant negative impact on flora and fauna.
Of course the earth can heal.

But as a person living in the atrium, I sort of like the status quo.
Plenty of food. Mostly fresh-ish air. Some waterways we can still swim in.
Overall, not too bad. ...

I'm a live and let live type of guy, but this idea seems dead.
https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/01/new...o-save-my-ink/

A new organization of tattoo artists and enthusiasts is helping people who don't want to take their ink with them when they go. These folks plan to have their favorite tattoos preserved and displayed for posterity by family members... Members can register one tattoo "roughly the size of a chest piece" for postmortem preservation... So he had two tattoos

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The first neural net, was the totality of verbal and directly physical/bodily based, non-verbal communication between the earliest members of our species*.

Then recorded symbols expanded the abilities/range/effectiveness of the original net.

Eventually the order of the printing press led the species to create the internet version of its earliest, native / natural / biologically intrinsic neural net.

And with help from the early hard wired internet, neural ...