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Could microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains? (sh.itjust.works)

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It's not a crazier idea than most of Kennedy's. Someone should do a study. Or make one up, nobody checks anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

US self-entitlement.

the land of the free has always had a “more important than every other country” mindset which has infected their citizens with the same selfish mindset.

McCarthyism and subsequent witch-hunts have resulted in such an anti-socialist zeitgeist that it has morphed into an anti-social zeitgeist where any empathy for any other person is seen not only as a weakness, but as also being “Un-murikan”.