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Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says (www.cnn.com)
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“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.

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[–] 39 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

    No, you can take ma food, but you can never take. Ma. FREEDOOOOOOOM!

    (Never mind you guys, that's just the spoon talking!)

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