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Wait, wait, wait. Does that mean they have found a new method to transport medicine directly to the brain? (/s)
We all remember that ad from the early 2000's that was like, "Imagine a world without oil: all of these things made of plastic wouldn't exist!" and a large part of the country was like "OMG could you imagine?!"
Lol we're completely fucked. I thought the worst studies were about finding plastic in testicles but this is way worse
I mean I can have sex without testicles, but I hardly think i would be able to enjoy it much without a brain.
I was very concerned when it was reported a few months ago that microplastics was discovered even in bloodstreams. That shit just makes me shiver to think about what that could happen to someone overtime.
Shit. So a quick search says a brain weighs 1.5kg and 0.5% is 7.5g. A credit card weighs about 5g. We have more plastic in our brains than there is in a card?
The article mentions that the quantity in 2024 was 50% higher than in 2016 - which is a high increase for just 8 years. This development probably doesn't slow down, it may even get faster. How much plastic will be in our brains in another 8 years?
Shit.
Thanks, I hate it.
But seriously, I just held a credit card for a solid minute. This is sobering. Bio-accumulation is a bitch.
So I'll never not have the feeling of a credit card being slid through my brain when i have a headache for the rest of my life, cool
The ambient panic is a bit louder now.
Heh so that's what a panic attack feels like. Yay.
Mhm... I don't think plastic should be where they found it.
Microplastics are in semen and dick tissue. Right wing conspiracy nuts go on and on about liberals putting shit in our drinking water to kill our fertility all while drinking distilled water out of a very shitty plastic bottle that had probably been sitting around for a couple years.
The right wing isn’t concerned about anything except expressing hate, taking rights away from people who are different than them, and controlling women and minorities.
To whom it may concern, This passively accumilated synthetic brain implant appears to cause cancer and cognitive decline.
I did not sign up to beta test your product, or intentionally purchase it. How do I return it?
Sincerely, An organic being.
Wait, I thought neuroplasticity was supposed to be good! /s
Wow, your comment really changed the way I think about this
That´s just what a plastic brain would think.
so instead of calling people smooth brains we call them plastic brains. unless the plastic is the reason they're smooth 🤔
Yeah, but at least my veggies come shrinkwrapped so I get to enjoy peeling them twice!
Where I shop I don't see any shrinkwrapped veg at all, any more. I wonder what made them change.
I order in my groceries. Got a shrinkwrapped cauliflower, with the green chaff I might add, and a shrinkwrapped courgette. It's all very strange to me.
Aldi wraps the vegetables in plastic wrap. It's done so it's quicker to scan at checkout.
here's a list of all the things anyone will do about this:
And this will happen only if people will remember about it for more than one week!
I think that's overly optimistic.
Yeah nobody even opened notepad, let alone Word or Docs to get a nice numbered list going here. Let's be real.
i've been trying to adopt a more positive outlook
So this is how we become immortal! Just absorb all the plastics and become plastic! Then when we use far more futuristic materials in the future we'll start absorbing them as well and so on until we're entirely made of some anti-gravity, self cloaking, spacetime continuum jumping, interdimentional supermaterial!
"I thought that human technology would make me immortal. But it just made me sad, angry, confused, and vote for a criminal."
Just absorb all the plastics and become plastic!
"Life is plastic, it's fantastic."
- Ancient Proverb
I see you also saw Crimes of the Future
Nope, just cancer and we go extinct.
The first few dozen generations will get cancer, sure but eventually those plastics will be "an essential source of hydrocarbons" and the government will declare a public health emergency when plants and fish are suddenly missing these essential ingredients for chip-in-brain compatibility to work.
WHATS WITH ALL THE YOUNG PEOPLE GETTING CANCER AMIRITE
The recent uptick in millennial colon cancer is believed to be caused by ~~eating ass~~ oral bacteria.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/mouth-bacterium-subtype-found-in-half-of-colon-cancer-tumors
Listen if she says "eat my ass while I text him, and I'll consider unlocking your cock cage later" I'm eating ass, alright?
You could have at least read the article before posting it. Nowhere does it say that, and the article goes into quite a bit of detail on how the bacteria travel. Or is that too much to ask?
It was when I commented late last night. Thanks for the correction. I’ll edit for clarity.
Bet it's because they are all so lazy!
Too much avocado toast