• shalafi@lemmy.world
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        28 days ago

        Agreed. This is hardly a new problem.

        Plastics cause much harm to our ecosystems but I’m not sure microplastics are so bad. Plastic is a really broad term, makes it hard to talk about and I’m ignorant on much of the subject. But I understand that most microplastics are biologically inert?

        Seems like everyone on lemmy jumps to the conclusion that microplastics are or will have drastic health effects. No, they’re not comparable to lead or asbestos, or, as you said, we’d know, would already have a mountain of evidence.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      Possibly worse, we got rid of lead gasoline, there’s no getting rid of plastics

      I’m sure the rich will have a treatment for it before too long and the rest of us will just suck it up

      Fun fact: it’s not the plastics itself thats usually the problem, but rather the solvents and conditioning agents used to characterize the plastic during manufacture

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        28 days ago

        I know what you were getting at, but just pointing out lead gasoline still exists today, primarily in small aircraft.

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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          28 days ago

          You know. I’ve fucking had it with this lemmy pedantry.

          I have been ‘Buuut AckTChsuallly’'d in nearly every post I’ve made in the last three weeks and I’m fucking done. Between that and the mod harassment, the fascist bots, lincucks, tankies, proud non-Harris-voters and unasked-for hardcore bestiality I’ve fucking had enough of this rapidly igniting toxic waste dump of a reddit clone

          You are ALL horrible, twisted, ignorant people with entirely too much arrogance for your mediocre engagement levels.

          Every fucking community that shows up on my feed but /autism and the one I mod is getting blocked BECAUSE I WILL NOT HAVE YOU ASSHOLES CHASE ME FROM MY LAST PLACE

          Eat every form of shit and let it make you a better person by absorption.