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Frittiert ,

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.

Bakkoda ,

Heh so that’s what a panic attack feels like. Yay.

DmMacniel ,
@DmMacniel@feddit.org avatar

Mhm… I don’t think plastic should be where they found it.

SeaJ ,

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.

ravhall ,

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.

SlippiHUD ,
@SlippiHUD@lemmy.world avatar

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.

AbouBenAdhem ,

Wait, I thought neuroplasticity was supposed to be good! /s

thefartographer ,

Wow, your comment really changed the way I think about this

dojan ,
@dojan@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, but at least my veggies come shrinkwrapped so I get to enjoy peeling them twice!

Samvega ,

Where I shop I don’t see any shrinkwrapped veg at all, any more. I wonder what made them change.

solsangraal ,

here’s a list of all the things anyone will do about this:

FirstCircle ,
@FirstCircle@lemmy.ml avatar

I think that’s overly optimistic.

solsangraal ,

i’ve been trying to adopt a more positive outlook

foggy ,

Yeah nobody even opened notepad, let alone Word or Docs to get a nice numbered list going here. Let’s be real.

Plopp ,

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!

ThePantser ,
@ThePantser@lemmy.world avatar

Nope, just cancer and we go extinct.

riskable ,
@riskable@programming.dev avatar

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.

makeshiftreaper ,

I see you also saw Crimes of the Future

thefartographer ,

Just absorb all the plastics and become plastic!

“Life is plastic, it’s fantastic.”

  • Ancient Proverb
Samvega ,

“I thought that human technology would make me immortal. But it just made me sad, angry, confused, and vote for a criminal.”

foggy ,

WHATS WITH ALL THE YOUNG PEOPLE GETTING CANCER AMIRITE

Zozano ,
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Too much avocado toast

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