Funny that everyone here has different orders. After consulting a few sources, I settled on: floss (with a water flosser), (infrequent) mouthwash, brush.

Since I’m using a water flosser that’s thoroughly hitting all around my teeth, not just the gaps, it actually does the bulk of the physical gunk removal with not much else to it, so it goes first.

Mouthwash is next but I actually skip it more often than not and haven’t seen negative effects. It turns out that overusing mouthwash can harm the good biome in your mouth, though I imagine if you’re feeding your biome lots of sugar, soda and juices especially, you’ll need to prune it down with mouthwash more often. I drink water almost exclusively.

Brushing basically has to go last if you want the protective fluoride layer to not get washed out. Acting against that though, I know about the advice to not rinse, but that just feels wrong, so I still do a very quick rinse.

I can only speak for me, but as a nuclear proponent, I’ve always liked solar power too. I’m more just annoyed by the wider misconceptions about nuclear power that have held it back for decades.

I don’t think a post has ever felt this alien to me. Lol.

Enjoying fiction at any level is an exercise in tricking yourself that something fake is something real, but the deeper you can take that process, the more fun the experience is.

Those of us who do that type of thing are unsatisfied with “insight into someone else’s imagination,” which sounds like an extremely shallow appreciation for fiction. We want full immersion in that imagination. With that comes an appreciation for internal consistency, well thought out lore, curiosity in how different universes we care about might interact, disagreements with any of the former, etc. all colored by our real lived experiences.

I’ll use your example as my example. I’m a big STEM guy, so naturally, I appreciate thinking that’s more in line with those areas. I think George Lucas’ idea of lightsabers being lasers frozen in place is dumb. I prefer to think of them as electromagnetically contained plasma, which also explains other sabers and laser/plasma projectiles bouncing off of them. That headcanon allows me to appreciate lightsabers (and thus the stories around them) more. That headcanon is also fun to express to others (like here).