I actually had the opposite problem! We had well water, but due to an extensive government information campaign, we took fluoride supplements.

After I cracked a few of my teeth on different occasions my parents suspected something was off, and had the well water tested. Turns out it had naturally occurring fluoride, and with the added supplements it was a little too much and my teeth got brittle. Thankfully this mostly happened to my baby teeth, so my adult teeth are mostly fine.

You can easily improve the cavity stats for adults by just having everyone lose their teeth by age 15.

Yeah, that's fair, but what I mean is that at some point the slur just takes over. When you hear the B word you no longer think about a female dog. Westerners usually don't think Buddhism when we see swastikas either.

I'm guessing those pretty beefy joists are cantilevered, and the 2x2s are unnecessary. They were likely added for the joke.

Translation:

The phone and the box are shipped separately from different Chinese suppliers, and an American receives both and puts the phone in the box.

Kind of. An undocumented immigrant puts it in the box, but the delivery driver who unloaded the pallets is totes a citizen, we think.

I've only ever heard that used about people, as a slur.

This happens everywhere. I live in a very walkable area, and every time someone replaces a single family home with two townhouses the NIMBYs come out in force and whine about parking. They obviously only care about their own ability to park directly in front of their house, and fear that someone else might park there if more people move to the area.

If it's a matter of days you could probably just lie about the timing of your last period. Those weeks are calculated from the date of your last period, not from the date of conception, so as long as you're the only one who knows your cycle you could probably lie a little bit.

Which also makes a 5 week deadline more insane than most people realize. Given a steady 4 week cycle, you have 1 week to realize your period is late, schedule and perform an abortion. A lot of people do not have a steady cycle, and those may very well not notice until it's too late, even if they track their cycle.

Pretty sure it's always been upfront with that it still tracks you? I always thought of it as a "don't store history and cookies locally" thing and nothing more. Maybe I read that disclaimer with more cynicism than most?

Different goals. The goal of Apollo was to make a good app. The goal of the official reddit app is to show you ads and siphon money off you.

I guarantee you a good chunk of that R&D money is for making ads more profitable and other monetization.

The secret ingredient to get on the front page of Forbes is fraud.

A lot of services these days support multiple forms of authentication. Did you sign up with a separate password? Did you use Google or Facebook auth? Is this a corporate account where auth is via their SSO? They don't even know whether they should ask for your password until they know who you are.