me, full of microplastics 🤝 my dad, full of lead 🤝 my grandfather, full of asbestos
I think my grandad actually grew up before the whole corn syrup thing, cause he was a Depression Baby.
I might be older than you as my grandfather was full of coal
it might have made him merrier but it also gave him lung cancer so you know ups and downs
fun fact: sbestos means fireproof. there's no good reason to have the a in front.
In 2050 kids will be like "Don't trust Zoomers, their brains are made of 50% microplastics"
If future generations are more progressive and based, that's a price worth paying.
Yeah for real why have I been hearing about it so much lately? Is it the new "phytoestrogens"?
i seriously thought it was just weird fallout from the ukraine war and europe's supply of sunflower seed oil being obliterated. like "good don't need them anyway because they make you grow boobs/extra testes/make your junk fall off)
Interesting but I think the influencer anti-seed oil thing predates the war. I think it's just part of the cycle of fad diets.
Hbomberguy actually made a neat video series about soy and phytoestrogens. As far as I am aware they don't actually turn on the estrogen receptors in your body, the molecules are a similar shape, one reason they are called phytoestrogens.
Nothing besides the fact that eating a lot of oil is bad for you. There's a lot of bro/influencer pseudoscience about how some oils - usually seed oils - are inflammatory. It's just the new fad diet restriction. Fat, sugar, carbs, now back to fat in the form of oil.
I think I caught the tail end of the lead and the boom of the microplastics!
In 2050 kids will be like
"Aaaah! Aaaah! Everything is literally on fire! Aaaaah!"
Unfortunately, microplastics will just be with us now for the thousands of years even if we stopped making and using them today.
The inventor of leaded gasoline famously denied that the lead was a problem until he got lead poisoning.
He was accidentally killed by another one of his inventions. Had it coming.
Kind of poetic really
Dude ends up with crippling issues, most likely from long-term exposure to lead particulates
He builds a device to help him get in and out of bed and it wound up strangling him to death
If it were a movie, people would say it's too on-the-nose
It's sad because so much of the black community got hit hard by leaded products, namely lead pipes with drinking water. It's something that isn't talked about enough and I think a lot of people got hurt by it, not just boomers.
My turning point was this video
Lots of personal growth and enganging with theory later I came out as trans and joined the local ML youth group.
Oh absolutely. It's a fucking tragedy that there still are lead pipes being used in the US, and like everything in this god awful country it is lower class and PoC people getting the worst of it...
Not that universal housing will ever come to the USA without a bloody battle for it, but if it hypothetically did, so many homes would need to be outright demolished and rebuilt to code for people to safely live in them. My house is for sure one of them.
South Africa scrapped our universal RDP housing program...
Last bit of Mandela's legacy, gone :desolate:
Don't feel bad, we here in the states gutted what's was left of the new deal for neoliberalism.
Whoa, that can't be true. I heard from a chud that South Africa had done a white genocide, and is a communist paradise now. :brainworms:
Oh yeah, if you gotta deal with asbestos, lead paint and pipes you might as well start over...
That's why it's all the more maddening that a home built in the 70's with asbestos and lead pipes can go for upwards to 200 grand on today's market. Normal system.
Seriously though the exhaust of old cars smells so bad. It notice it when the odd 70s Mustang passes by me. Cities must've smelt disgusting
Car centric cities like in the US still do tbh.
I noticed that coming from a smaller city with decent public transport to ones without it in my country.
I've honestly found lots of Europe can be worse tbh, even in the smaller or less car centric cities, presumably because of how widespread diesel is. Still more liveable cities in general, but air pollution can get pretty bad all over the place.
Oh yeah, absolutely. Like despite having very decent public transport, we still have worse air quality than even more car centric cities (I'd argue less smelly still, but :shrug-outta-hecks: ), because the city I'm in geographically just "traps" all the particulates in the city area.
Sadly, Barcelona is the most polluted city I’ve ever been to for specifically automobile (and motorcycle) exhaust. Terrible diesel fumes. La Barceloneta area was the only part I could tolerate. (It’s mostly closed to cars.)
Even in the 90s LA still had "smog days" where the pollution was so bad they'd close schools and tell people not to go outside if they could help it
Christ, would they even bother doing that in the modern era? Or would you just have some influencers getting paid to do the "Tail Pipe Suck Challenge" sponsored by Standard Oil?
Is this a US only thing or did the same happen all over the world?
Phase out was much later in some countries and still used in aviation gas
:jokerfication:
But only small propeller planes use leaded gas still. Airliners and any jet uses kerosene without lead in it
Depends on local laws regarding leaded gasoline. But yeah, it was pretty prevalent, so I'd assume it holds somewhat true for many countries.
Tbf, the twitter thread I found it in said it probably underestimates the numbers for Boomers, because it mostly bases these numbers on leaded gasoline, and can't fully account for leaded paint
