• hglman@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      That’s certainly something that may have a significant impact on the future.

      • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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        Plastic is what’s making everyone gay! Lol

        JK I know people have always been gay. We will probably just get cancer from the plastic

        • Captain_Waffles@lemmy.world
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          Lol. Then again I’ve seen people claim that banning lead paint actually increases the risk of cancer because it blocks radiation so painting walls with it protects you like at the dentist. 🤦

      • EatYouWell@lemmy.world
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        I think we’re pretty far past ‘may’ at this point since they’re finding microplastics in blood and lungs.

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    Leaded fuel or leaded pipes didn’t matter to that generation, so why do their bigoted, stuck-up views still matter now?

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis

      There’s reason to believe the very real crime spike in the 80s/90s was people from the 60s/70s quite literally going insane due to their lead exposure.

      The survivors are both traumatized by the experience and suffering from a lower but still harmful dose of brain damage. They express this through short tempers and irrational anxiety, which they then rationalize as justification for bigotry.

      Ie, going into hysterics when you see black people because your brain is polluted, but then reinforcing the anxiety with a nightly dose of Tucker Carlson.

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    You’re so quick to blame lead poisoning when we all know poor mental health and Alzheimer’s is doing all the heavy lifting.

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    I love that whenever something really awful happens to you, they try to justify it by saying, “God never gives you more than you can handle.”

    I know people who have been driven batsh*t insane by what God has given them.

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      It’s all survivorship bias.

      The only folks who cling to that belief are the ones who haven’t been broken on the wheel of life

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        They won’t debate you but they will tell you that “God has a plan for you” or something like that. Even if that plan is living a super short life and dying and agonizing death.

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          Yep. Apparently babies deserve to suffer for…being born? I’ve been told I should see my horrible migraine as a gift from God that he thinks I’m strong enough to carry. 🤬 Ah yes, the “gift” of unending pain. That’s not a gift, that’s a curse.

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      If there is a god he is an asshole and doesn’t deserve worship. I heard he’s the bastard that lets all those children die all the time!

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        I mean, are we assholes because we let ants die? I agree if he exists he isn’t deserving of worship, but calling him an asshole for letting kids die is kinda rich from a species that mostly gives no fucks about creatures with lower intellect.

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    If they were assholes due to Lead poisoning theyd be sympathetic to a nonzero degree. But the reality is that they have no one to blame but themselves.

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      I mean, almost everyone who grew up in a large city from the 40s-80s was a victim to lead poisoning and other toxic chemicals (hell, lead in gasoline was officially banned in 96!). Doesn’t absolve them of sin but you’ve got to feel a little sorry for how little emotional control it can leave someone with.