"no bigger than sesame seeds"?!

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Hoping this is a case of dumb journo doesn't realize what they're saying and not that there's actual visible plastic beads in people's lungs...

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      "Viruses are like, so small that they're even smaller than sesame seeds, which are, like, the smallest thing I can think of. Atoms are even smaller than half a sesame seed."

      • UlyssesT
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        15 days ago

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        • jackal [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Sesame seed is the smallest of the hamburger units. It's a derived unit where 1000 sesame seeds = 1 sesame bun

  • Vampire [any]
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    3 years ago

    “no bigger than sesame seeds”?!

    miniplastics at best

    • Florn [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I'm not really gaining weight, it's just all the microplastics piling up

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    Thinking back to when I was growing up and my mom used shampoo with plastic scrubbing micro beads…

    • ides_of_Merch [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      injudicious use of nanotech is like in the 1900s when they made radioactive toothpaste and all kinds of bullshit, fuck capitalism lol

  • UlyssesT
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    15 days ago

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