I think you may have taken me too seriously, but if so that’s a very dismissive response. I think your reply would be improved by describing at least one (nigh-universal, so it applies to “things” in general) force and saying why it exists.

“down” is “just” a name for the direction everything falls.

Why do things fall? What happened to “a body at rest stays at rest”?

While that may contribute to the slipperiness of ice in certain circumstances, we know that ice is still slippery even when the compressive force is unable to melt the ice, even a thin layer. For example, we’ve studied ice at temperatures and pressures where liquid water doesn’t form.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20zyW0qoSTE

I don’t remember the details exactly, but in the (most common) crystalline arrangements of H20, at the surface/edge of ice the individual molecules don’t have all their crystalline “partners”, so they can still shift around to varying degrees, which makes ice slippery even when none of it can / does melt–all of the molecules are part of at least one crystal.

So we should ban every[thing that can] be used to harm oneself?

No. They should all be legal to acquire and self-administer.

Do you also think the FDA should stop having standards for food and drugs?

No. They enforce accuracy of labeling, which is important for people to make informed (consent) decisions about what they self-administer. They should stop making it illegal for a willing recipient to acquire an accurately labeled substance and self-administrate said substance.

They are materials that can be much more dangerously self-administered. Anything less dangerous can’t be justifiably banned restricted solely on the dangers of self-administration.

The merging of government and corporate power structures has more in common with fascism than with authoritarian communism or liberal libertarian socialism.

Bleach, ammonia, nicotine, and ethanol were the dangerous substances I mentioned earlier in the thread.

Might it just be better to grow ProPublica, 404media, or both instead of starting a new one?

Maybe it’s just the gourmand in me, but this is also my priority. It seems like we should be able to ensure no human goes hungry. Production isn’t an issue, it’s distribution/logistics.

I don’t wear my watch in the shower, but given my hair length, comparing intuitively to the length of time it takes to floss (which was timed), probably most times. Though, rarely I will do a quick shower and not shampoo (or condition) my hair.

6 downvotes are OOTL and haven’t seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

It takes me 2 minutes to brush my teeth. Nearly 6 to floss.

I am not ashamed that it takes me 10 minutes to scrub, 5 minutes to shampoo, 5 minutes to condition, 5 minutes to face-shave, 10 minutes to rinse, and a few more minutes for using the artificial pumice stone.

I just do it “raw”, using an IP denylist built into my client KTorrent. No problems for a while. But, I mostly do different media than you. (I do TV.)

There is a difference between safety regulation and paternalism that I think you are failing to parse.

There is a fundamental right to bodily autonomy that you aren’t valuing.

You can call it whatever you want, if you prevent a person from self-administering any substance, you are violating their human rights.

On top of that, many, many OTC substances are much more lethal than HRT, so the risks of HRT cannot be great enough to justify them not being available OTC.

Data is not the plural of anecdote. As has been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, many countries have OTC HRT and do not have significantly higher morbidity or mortality rates associated with those materials. Your experiences, in the form you’ve shared them, are NOT citeable. So, we’re still at “Citation Needed” stage.

I think that uneducated or gullible people deserve full bodily autonomy, even if that means bad results from their choices.

Certainly, educated and sophisticated people can also get bad results from their choices; I see no reason to deny them to anyone else.

I’m all for a person educating themselves before making a decision to ingest some material, but the final decision MUST BE THEIRS, and not someone else’s.

Yes, the decisions are often difficult, and I personally know I’m an idiot with a bias NOT to ingest something. But, I refuse to deny someone else their freedom based my judgements, or even the judgements of “experts”. I think there are a LOT of good reason to, so I will almost universally defer to an expert, but I refuse to DEMAND everyone else make that same decision.

Your model of “total bodily autonomy” with every medication being OTC would drastically worsen the Darwinian hell caused by medical misinformation.

Citation needed. ESPECIALLY around HRT.

Depending on the year model of the car, it might not make that sound. It wasn’t required on some of the earlier EVs, which could be eerily quiet. I believe it’s required by law on newer models. Pre-2016 Volts has a “pedestrian horn button”; 2016 and newer Volts play a noise continuously as lower speeds. (My Uncle says it sounds like the warp drive hum on the original Star Trek Enterprise.)

I was on a 4-month schedule before 2020, but they switched me to a 6-month schedule once I was comfortable going back. My gums are in a much better shape now.

I hope you continue to get the care your body needs, if that stays 4-month cleanings or changes.

For example, the Bible documents far more kills by God than kills by Satan: https://reasonsjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/thou-shalt-kill.html

I do it for “selfish” reasons, but not those. I want the carts in their corrals so they don’t damage my car and are in a well-known location when I want/need to use them. So, I do the work needed to make that world, and not just the minimum.

I also have to recognize that not everyone has the ability to return the cart, and so while/when I have that ability, I should return at least a few carts that aren’t “mine”.