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Very gently, I’m sure (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] [email protected] 245 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fun fact: PVC doesn't show up on x-rays. So when this thing turns into shrapnel and embeds itself in your abdomen; doctors get to just hunt around and hope they find all the pieces.

[-] [email protected] 221 points 1 month ago

Microplastics are bad, now macroplastics are bad, I feel like you're just very anti-plastic at this point and hard to please.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago

My opinions themselves are plastic; constantly changing.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

My life is plastic; it's fantastic.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Be like plastic. Firm, but if you warm up you can change shape to fit a mold."

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also, “Be about a spoon’s worth in everyone’s brain”

Everyone thought he was dishing out sage martial arts wisdom that they didn’t quite understand, but Bruce Lee was constantly trying to discuss the looming threat of microplastics. Truly ahead of his time.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

The Thermosetting Plastic in the room

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago

so what you're saying is that I can sneak this onto a plane

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

I've only ever seen potato "holders" made out of ABS, not PVC. Not sure that ABS is any more resistant to er- rapid unscheduled disassemblies.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago

In the firework industry we use ABS in our mortars because they will stretch and rip if a firework explodes in the tube rather than shatter and turn into shrapnel.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

ABS would be better in that regard, it has a higher plasticity and less likely to fragment. But the one in the OP is PVC. ABS pipe is black.

Edit: And I'm pretty sure ABS doesn't show either.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

We used to make them out of PVC pipe from the hardware store

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Yup, gotta get that sch40 stuff.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

I appreciate knowing this. If I'm dying from consuming high velocity plastic shrapnel, I won't expect xrays to help.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The word consuming is deeply unsettling in this context. More so than high velocity plastic shrapnel, which is surprising

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That fact was fun! 🥰

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

But PVC does melt unlike schrapnel, so there's no problem if they set your abdomen on fire.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

At the very least, mammalian.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Nothing a lead paint job can't fix

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Asbestos gauze

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Wolverine must have a cousin with a PVC bone structure out there somewhere…

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

What about an MRI? Too slow maybe?

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