“The concentrations we saw in the brain tissue of normal individuals, who had an average age of around 45 or 50 years old, were 4,800 micrograms per gram, or 0.48% by weight,” Campen said.
That’s the equivalent of an entire standard plastic spoon, Campen said.
“Compared to autopsy brain samples from 2016, that’s about 50% higher”
An entire spoon’s worth of plastic in ol’ wrinkly. That doesn’t seem good.
love how it ends with a bunch of personal responsibility bs for trying to limit your plastic intake, very cool
Honestly, it’s not like policy in any imperial core country ever listens to scientists, so what else are they supposed to say? Buy a gun?
Yeah, obviously they’re not going to publish the Names and Addresses bit, but they talk about how plastic production still increasing in the article, so even some milquetoast liberal “contact your representatives” or “boycott plastic companies” would be an improvement
I’m calling on all media to start ending every article with a list of the names, addresses, and schedules of CEOs in an industry relevant to the story, followed by a suggestion to buy a gun and do something
I promise you and cannot stress it enough how much easier personal responsibility is in a more sane society. If I can walk 2 minutes to a convenience store, order an onigiri for $1.50 and take a train to a park in 5 minutes for $1 it’s just a different reality. There’s no suffering as you lose weight. You’re not beating the odds and recreating your life from scratch by playing hopscotch around all the temptations. You’re actually choosing between an unhealthy, hyperpalletable palletable option and a more modest option. It’s like the difference between a tofu based vegan option and them just picking the sausage out of the pasta.
If you could get your food in biodegradable casing instead of plastic with a button press you’d gladly press the button and never look back.
Yep, that’s the thing that gets me every time.
One of the key principles of my job is to make it as easy as possible for people to do the “right” thing and as hard as possible to make bad choices. And I’m constantly applying that principle to my own workflows to outmaneuver my brain’s busted reward centers so I can trick myself into doing laundry or whatever. So I’m often hyperaware of the structural inconveniences imposed on me and on all of us, and how it’s a Sisyphean endeavor to try to do anything that runs counter to how society is structured. Impossible and maddening.
UI or nudging?
Devops
No, you can take ma food, but you can never take. Ma. FREEDOOOOOOOM!
(Never mind you guys, that’s just the spoon talking!)
Bit idea: Stalker but Monolit faction is just microplastics-filled people
publications love doing that shit lol. the whole concept of a carbon footprint was invented to make individual people feel personally responsible for climate change even though corporations pollute 100x more.
its your fault for listening to to much Pop Music.
You’re right