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I didn't mean to imply it only came from trash food, I only intended to show one/two examples where associated cancer risk [edit: could be] correlated and not causal.

I am not saying microplastics are neutral. I am saying that the title of this article is clickbatey.

please read the article before panicking, this shit is mega complicated:

Brains of people with dementia had up to 10 times more MNPs than other brains but that doesn’t mean MNPs had caused dementia. The elevated rate was likely a result of damage to the blood-brain barrier from the neurodegenerative disease, the authors said.

The study didn’t find more plastic in the brains of older people with more lifetime exposure, suggesting the brain can clear itself of MNPs, Campen said.

however:

Previous studies have found microplastics associated with certain cancers, cardiovascular disease and harm to human reproductive, digestive and respiratory health.

although, if you're ingesting a lot of microplastics, maybe you are also ingesting a lot of other pollutants (or maybe you're just eating a ton of processed food, and this trash food has more microplastics in it), and the microplastics are correlated in this way.

Everyone knows those rules don't apply when youre dunking on the instances with opinions outside of the US state department's approved overton window.

This is the message of the enemy. I am not sure what there is to be done, but to say this:

There’s nothing that can be done.

is to give up. The only thing that we ordinary people can know is that the democratic party is unable/unwilling to form an effective resistance right now.

This book sucked. The typesetting and format gimmicks were totally wasted on it. I did like the celebrity cameos.

The comic is pretty funny though.

Hmm gee why would anyone post articles that are vaguely negative about the Democratic establishment. Right now they're fighting the blatent corruption going on in our country by doing:

Don't forget all the things they did to protect federal workers like:

But of course you can't forget the ways they got popular policy enacted when their man was in office. Policy like:

There's an avian flu epidemic forcing the culling of birds. Should we save the CDC/USDA/FDA? Nah, silence from the democratic party.

There have been terrible airplane accidents. Should we get more staff for ATC and make sure the FAA has a director in a time of crisis? Nah, silence

Should we allow anti-intellectuals and political agents police the language of science? Should we stop them from purging completed projects and scholarly papers? Nah, silence

Should we do something about a madman firing 12 inspector generals without following process? Nah, silence

Anything to protect career civil servants, keeping our government running and providing services to the people? Nah, silence.

But the CIA front is where we draw the line.

Thanks for the link.

I forgot how frustrating these people are. I'd love to read these comments but they're filled with sentences like:

I take seriously radical animal-suffering-is-bad-ism[1], but we would only save a small portion of animals by trading ourselves off 1-for-1 against animal eaters, and just convincing one of them to go vegan would prevent at least as many torturous animal lives in expectation, while being legal.

Just say "I think persuading people to become vegan is better than killing them"?

Why do you need to put a little footnote[1] to some literal fiction someone wrote about human suffering to make a point?

Screw it, here's that footnote:

For a valid analogy between how bad this is in my morality and something that would be equally bad in a human-focused morality, you can imagine being born into a world with widespread human factory farms. Or the slaughter and slavery of human-like orcs, in case of this EY fiction [link omitted].

Exqueeze me? You have to resort to some shit somebody made up to talk about human exploitation?

As a condition of the sale, Moya stipulated that its founder, 80-year-old engineer Tomàs Baiget, would stay on as editor. (In 2023, Baiget publicly apologized for creating the website ArtiCulitos.com, on which he uploaded photographs of women’s butts, some of them taken without their consent.)

what?? lmao.

The engineer claims that he does not know Muhammad Haseeb and does not know if he is the owner. “In truth, no idea. I did see Muhammad’s name somewhere, but I don’t have the slightest idea what his position is,” he explains. “I vouch for the quality, ethics and good work, at least in my purview, which is Europe and the Americas.”

I see. It all tracks.

yea honestly? it's funny as fuck, legendary prank. Oh no a dead bear in central park oh noooooo

Hear me out: what actually troubles me is his opinions about vaccines. Strange take, I know.

These are public service workers who are having their jobs taken from them. People are losing pentions. Some departments will have all employees laid off and remain in name only (because it takes an act of congress to disband some departments)

Think of who maintains your parks. Think of who provided nessisary demographics and statistics to businesses and universities. Think of who runs GPS and weather satilites. Think of who tests your water and air. Who tests your produce, meat and drugs. The IRS got this letter as well. Their "customer service" branch is probably getting the axe. Who will you call if your tax return is stolen?

The reality is life will worsen for the average American due to these layoffs. This is a rug pull on the public by the billionaire class.