I'm not in the US but doesn't that downplay it a bit? Hasn't this been a contentious topic for some time? It's not like no one's been talking about it and Utah suddenly decided out of the blue.
> I'm not in the US but doesn't that downplay it a bit?
No, not really. There are a couple municipalities (Portland, OR, e.g.) that have famously not fluoridated their water forever, but for the most part this is not something most places argue about. UT is an exception.
The irony is that people on the Left will claim that red Utah is ignorantly making public health policy, while deep deep blue Portland is considered “progressive.” The public health “experts” are ripping into Utah but haven’t seemed to care about Portland. Perhaps because the public health people are mostly Democrat and care more about politics than actual health? I would love to be wrong — but why is Portland (and much of Europe) getting a free pass from the controversy, but a (relatively low population) red U.S. state isn’t?
Portland, Oregon is a city so the effects of their policies are a little more limited in scope. IMO if it really is a contentious health issue (well-founded or not, I guess people really do disagree about this issue) it is better to make the decision at the lowest level practical.
I think most cities manage their own utilities. So, Portland has to make some decision on this issue. Utah doesn’t, it was an active choice to intervene.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. What I meant was that it was my impression that the argument over fluoride has been going on for longer and is bigger than this one case. How and why the judge ruled and what the ruling was is tangential to that.
The Chess Notation lesson[0] from Lichess was really helpful when I was learning the notation a few years ago.
If you have a physical chessboard it can also help to try to play out a game from it’s notation and stop every few moves to check your board’s state against the state of the actual game.
I spent a couple of afternoons doing this and it stuck. You can refresh with some Chess Vision training[1] from Chess.com.
If you are interested in learning or reading more about chess, it is worth learning Portable Game Notation[2] (PGN). If you’re interested from a more programmatic perspective the Forsyth–Edwards Notation[3] (FEN) is more common in software, and there’s also the Universal Chess Interface[4] (UCI) format that is mostly used for communicating with engines.
The board shows the moves, and the right side lists them in notation along with some commentary. On move 61 Black blunders, allowing White a mate-in-1. White misses it, however, also blundering on move 62.
In case you missed it, you can just click the left and right arrows at the bottom to move through the game, the best and worst moves are highlighted with ! and ? and sometimes different colours.
I left FB in 2012 mostly because they wouldn’t allow me to share articles about how to properly secure your profile and posts. These were all innocuous sources such as Ars Technica that were pro-privacy.
The blocks were immediate, which suggested there was a blocklist or URLs that FB did not want you to broadcast to your friends if they were even marginally critical of FB.
Looking back, staying off of Meta properties was probably the wisest move I could have made.
I got two posts blocked only: (summary) "I'm back in town, does anyone want to hang out" and a marketplace post selling a cable, which they can't tell apart from someone trying to sell a tv cable service/access. And I'm sure I posted something actually questionable over the years.
Whatever the system they were using, it's terrible quality and I'm sure they could improve it.
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