Definitely the signs of a healthy civilization
Yeah suck out all of my microplastics stepsister 😏
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Stepsister: Huh, it’s not the only thing micro…
Jokes on you, I don’t have testicles.
The Chosen One
I have productionicles
You have testicles too, just some people also have producionicles
(That was a hilarious wordplay by you)
We really have sacrificed our species atop the fire of industry.
Got us to the moon in a relative jiffy though. Makes you wonder what majority of industrialized life ever burns itself out vs external circumstances.
We’ve been pretty up ourselves about it though, a blank flag waving on the moon will be cold comfort for the burning remains of our civilisation. I could this being the inevitable end to an intelligent species, smart enough to destroy itself but dumb enough to destroy itself.
This is why we’ve never seen or heard aliens out in the universe. Every civilization burns itself out faster than they can solve long distance space travel. Maybe the Great Filter is just the inherent nature of sentient beings. It would make me feel better to know that every other civilization to ever exist in the universe also destroyed itself in this manner, but maybe we are a special level of stupid.
TIL about the Great Filter. Thanks for the rabbit hole!
I have macro plastics in mine
Where’s a good place to buy organic testicles then?
I heard the rocky mountains are good at least once you get past all the oysters
Thanks! I’ll have to see if there’s a distributor in my area.
Scientists say discovery may be linked to decades-long decline in sperm counts in men around the world
This is no issue to me, as someone who doesn’t prioritize having sex and has no intent to bring children into this awful world.
I’m gay and I don’t want to have kids. This world is horrific.
It’s an issue if it accelerates the removal of abortion rights. Old crotchety white men afraid they’ll stop having heirs
They will die and things will go back to normal.
Yeah same, but I worry about all the other affects like cancers, other mutations, some third horrible thing…
Yeah I have no doubt all kinds of weird cancers and degenerative diseases are going to be rampant in 50 or so years.
Plastics breaking down and leeching into everything is going to make climate change look like leaded gas/paint.
I wish I had your self-confidence! It would maybe help me get laid 😵
So can we call them plasticles now?
When they’re made of plastic, they’re called nuticles.
These were the testicles, here are the resulticles.
We’ve obviously seen a lot of studies about the proliferation of microplastics. They seem to be in practically everything and everyone to an almost cellular level. Are there any modern studies or even just hypotheses for what the actual effects are? Has it just not been long enough for us to gather data?
The problem is that plastics are not stable. They are constantly breaking down and releasing an array of chemicals in the process. Great, now they’re inside us too. Oh. They’re inside everything else too so yay?
Microplastics are midi-chlorian without the Force. They connect us to all that lives.
Yes. Dr Shanna Swan wrote a book about it called Countdown. She’s proven that it is having a direct impact on our reproductive system as an endocrine disruptor.
Eh, humanity is overrated anyway. I’m not an extinctionist, but if we wipe ourselves out that would pretty funny and appropriate.
Honestly after watching society and social media for the last few years…just go ahead and demolish the planet to build the bypass.
Thanks for the fish.
The only way to improve the climate is to dramatically decrease the human population. If plastics are good at it, I say USE MORE PLASTICS!!!
Sure, yo go first.
I started 3D printing all the shit for a reason!
This is just not true, it’s 4 companies driving almost alll climate impacting technologies, human population has been stabilizing across the board and human race is projected to peak at 10 billion.
We have the resources to accommodate that number. It’s our technology, not the people and it’s fucking corporations.
Human population should peak below 1B.
Ah yes, im sure you have many figures and sources of why that is a fact
…and it’s totally not your opinion “that human bad and number must go down because I’m smart and cynical”
The problem might be that if they’re everywhere there’s no control group without them, so it’s hard to say if an effect is actually caused by microplastics or not.
In a laboratory setting, presumably you could makeq conditions clean enough to grow a cell culture that is free from micro plastics. But that isn’t going to tell you much about systemic effects like in an organ or body.
Maybe you could breed mice in a clean room. Not sure what the generational half life of microplastics is…
The alternative you could probably test is levels of Microplastics. Grow a number of colonies with varying levels of microplastics and compare between them.
I have a hypothesis that the proliferation of microplastics could be related to the rising cancer rates in young people nobody can yet explain.
At very least, people should stop microwaving plastic containers.
All by design. The powers that be want to limit the world population. Slow kill is a tool.
BTW, in testicles like sperm? Or somehow melded to the organs?
Which is why reproductive rights are being stripped away? Can’t have it both ways.
Live in the U.S.?
Check all the ingredients of everything you eat and drink. You bathe with, you wash dishes with, you wash clothes with, you use for lawn care etc… Even medications are forms of slow kill. All of which is approved by governing bodies like the FDA.
Between the microplastics, the pfoas and other fluorine based stuff from 3M, and the lead in fuel that airplanes are still allowed to use, and the lack of a more natural diet, it’s no wonder we’re all so screwed up.
No. No no, the chem trail people cannot be right. This is the worst day. (So far!)
To be fair, I think this is for gas engines and not jet engines. So big commercial airports, and the
conchem trail generating traffic, are in the clear.No, it’s just the smaller airports and tiny fields used for crop dusters. You know. The ones that are literally everywhere. :(
It’s worse than “allowed” to use, in the US it’s more like “required to use”. Newer engines that work on unleaded gas exist, and even some older engines are perfectly capable on unleaded gas. However, the FAA has to test and approve each part that goes on an airplane, and it’s a ton of work to do that for every type of airplane engine. Unless the government subsidized such testing and paid for unleaded fuel tanks to be installed all over the country, it’s unlikely to change anytime soon.
People were using lead in day to day life for thousands of years.
So?
For thousands of years it wasn’t aerosolized. It isn’t even debated anymore. It’s a known and accepted fact that it has made people dumber.
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Yeah, it was simply added directly to the food as a sweetener. No biggie…
well that and being told for your entire life that you could be anything you want and do anything with your life that you chose as long as you worked hard (oh, and voted for tax cuts for the rich).
Rubber balls and liquor.
Our dicks are now reclassified as Nerf Guns.
Can mine be the BallZooka? It shot like 30 balls in 10 seconds.
If you can’t spread your sperm, spread awareness about microplastics.
If the researchers are pretty, I would like to have my testicles in that study.
Is that how polyester girls are created?
Barbie girls man. It was right there for the taking.
They’re both OK tracks.
Polyester girl is a bit more adult oriented compared to barbie girl.
My bad I had no idea that was a song.
No worries at all :)
Unaware of the reference, your thought makes perfect sense.
Thanks for being a positive netizen!
