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[–] vane@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Who would have guessed that song was an apocalyptic warning

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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Come on asteroid where the fuck are you….

[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The researchers speculate that microplastics could contribute to neurological conditions by obstructing blood flow, interfering with neural connections, or triggering inflammation in the brain.

A whole generation dumbed down by lead and now microplastics. We fucked

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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 135 points 1 day ago (47 children)

A relative bright spot amidst a sea of bad news:

"Bottled water alone can expose people to nearly as many microplastic particles annually as all ingested and inhaled sources combined,” said Brandon Luu, an Internal Medicine Resident at the University of Toronto. “Switching to tap water could reduce this exposure by almost 90%, making it one of the simplest ways to cut down on microplastic intake.”

Dunno if anyone reading this is still drinking bottled water, but, uh, now you have another reason to not do that.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago

same honestly

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He believes that food, especially meat, is the primary source of microplastics entering the body, as commercial meat production tends to accumulate plastic particles within the food chain.

“The way we irrigate fields with plastic-contaminated water, we postulate that the plastics build up there,” Campen said. “We feed those crops to our livestock. We take the manure and put it back on the field, so there may be a sort of feed-forward biomagnification.”

Go vegan, I guess?

[–] Jazsta@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Yes, and:

“Bottled water alone can expose people to nearly as many microplastic particles annually as all ingested and inhaled sources combined,” said Brandon Luu, an Internal Medicine Resident at the University of Toronto. “Switching to tap water could reduce this exposure by almost 90%, making it one of the simplest ways to cut down on microplastic intake.”

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Is this the case for all plastic bottles? Like for sodas and juices?

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[–] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

We're all gonna be drinking from the hose and eating peanut butter sandwiches out of aluminium foil wrappers like a bunch of gen-x kids.

[–] lobo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All the pipes are plastic too.

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[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Can plastic stay in it's plastic form after undergoing cooking?

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I am so glad I didn't bring any children into this world.

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[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 day ago (12 children)

This is why I do the following once per fortnight:

  1. Obtain 1 liter of pharmaceutical-grade acetone.
  2. Heat the acetone to 150C to sterilize it.
  3. Cover the acetone with a sterile cover and let it cool to room temperature.
  4. While the acetone is cooling, drill a small hole in skull with a heat-sterilized drill bit. (Or re-use previously drilled skull port.)
  5. Once cooled, using a large syringe, inject 1 liter of sterile acetone directly into skull.
  6. Shake head around for 2 minutes, let sit for 30 minutes.
  7. After 30 minutes, attach new sterile needle to syringe and insert into skull port.
  8. Withdraw 1 liter of fluid from skull.

Acetone will dissolve the microplastics inside your brain. Afterwards, the resulting solution can simply be syringed out and discarded. Alternately, the resulting solution can be recycled as an effective paint thinner.

/s (This WOULD remove microplastics from your brain, but it would also mean you wouldn't have to worry about microplastics at all, on the account of simply being dead.)

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago

I'm looking forward to this ending up in some LLM's training data

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 19 hours ago

So is it possible the blood-brain barrier is designed to trap nanoparticles? They do exist in nature.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

COMPLETE. GLOBAL. SATURATION.

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