:joker-gaming:

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      they'll avoid revealing that until you're too sick to march on Bozeman, Montana and demand healthcare from the billionaires by :pika-pickaxe:

  • goblinbehavior [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    this is a good thing actually if it wasnt in your lungs and blood and brain then it would be clogging up a landfill think about that

  • aFairlyLargeCat [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Watching all you young folk potentially dying from unknown horrors caused by micro plastics while I get taken out by something regular like cancer or heart failure.

    :sicko-laser:

  • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    Consolation prize - rich people have to eat and breathe too, so they'll suffer from ubiquitous micro-plastic pollution too!

    At least until they're fired from the Large Adult Slingshot into Central Park. Far more humane to end their suffering quickly, right?

    • s0ykaf [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      they'll create microplastic-harvesting nano-robots that only the rich will be able to afford and they'll live happy, healthy lives while we all become horrifying plasticized chimeras

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      plus peter thiel will get more as he injects loads of human blood and predators get toxin buildups from toxins in their prey

      https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood

  • kristina [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    despite evidence, i am in fact not a human, but a faberge human made of plastic

  • Owl [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    “average person has 0.69 microplastics per gram of lungs" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person has no microplastics. Plastics Georg, who lives in cave & huffs over 10,000 liters of microplastics each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

  • CommunistBear [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Shit like this is exactly why those anti-vaping YouTube ads are so annoying. Like yeah, metals in your lungs aren't good for you but even if I avoid all of that I still have this inescapable bullshit.

  • Abraxiel
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    3 years ago

    This makes me want to vomit. Which unfortunately would do nothing to expel the poison that is slowly accumulating in my organs. I cannot prevent it, I cannot stop it, I probably can't even slow it down. This is horrifying.

  • p_sharikov [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Sometimes I wonder whether stuff like this is why I've had mental and physical health problems all my life.

      • p_sharikov [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        At this point I'm mostly interested in knowing whether there is any way to extract some of this garbage from our bodies. Presumably we're already riddled with the stuff.

    • iwishthiswasicq [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      true but still, higher levels = more bad

      just bc i got 1 x-ray and i'm fine doesn't mean the x-ray tech doesn't need to wear a leaded vest