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[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

I just want to say it's extremely cute and wholesome to call you grandpa grandpop

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Worst part is that the mutations created by the lead in the body, led to the mutated Charmeleon body. And those mutations he got from the asbestos, match the Charizard body.

Thematically, it fits

Only Arceus knows what is to come for the next stage.. Olestra mutations?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think this meme would work better in reverse lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

It's those microplastics on the brain.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But I want to be Charizard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Don't we all.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

If they are alive today, they are also full of microplastics!

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 days ago (6 children)

To be totally nitpicky shouldnt this be backwards?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we're going by real-world evolution rules, OP is the next evolutionary stage compared to their dad, who is in turn the next stage compared to grandpa.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pokemon "evolution" is more like irl metamorphosis

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Sure, I'm just saying that's why I imagine, they put it this way around. I do agree that it's weird. You'd expect grandpa to be level 70, so he definitely shouldn't be a baby dino anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There's a Teflon generation in there somewhere

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure that's just everyone at this point 😬

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Mega Charizard X and Mega Charizard Y exists, as well as Gigantamax Charizard.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The asbestos and lead eras overlapped so your dad was giga fucked

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

I think you mean OP's mom was gigafucked

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

And even old people have the microplastics. Isn’t it they can’t do a study with a control group because every single living person has the microplastics?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think you have them backwards, surely the Charizard is the granddad

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

I read it as comparing the three exposures to each other.

The first evolution, Charmander was exposed to lead and the toxic effects of lead are pretty fast acting. Meaning they were weakened the quickest and couldn't evolve.

Charmeleon was exposed to asbestos which has latent toxic effects, they show up decades after exposure. So the Charmeleon lived quite a while before they showed any noticeable effects.

The final evolution was exposed to micro plastics and because, so far, micro plastics seem to be so unreactive they just chill doing nothing the Charazard had an opportunity to evolve.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

With the way things are going, the next generation will have all three!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Elder Millenials and young Gen X can have all 3 if they grew up near a busy highway in a home built before the 1980s.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Plenty of kids full of lead these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Lucky for us, that's not the only vector! Baby foods keep getting recalled because of lead contamination, and the FDA just released a new limit on lead content in baby food.

Except, they are just guidelines and are not enforceable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Thanks republicans, next stop: Upton Sinclair was a communist and we should leave food safety to the experts: the mega corps.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The toxicity of micro plastics is very minor. To get to the point where it is a problem you need to be exposed to it for a very long time.

I think our asbestos is halogenated organic chemicals like PFAS. They are toxic in every way and we are addicted to their use in food chemistry. Not to eat or anything but to make the packaging look nice.

Because they are indestructible by any natural way their dose in the water supply is ever rising. The cost of health issues is already in the hundred billions.

Micro plastics might be a problem for our children when the dosage in clean water gets to extreme levels.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Microplastics and studies on the effects of it on the human body are too recent to say much.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is my whole lifetime so far, a very long time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Not if you are a toddler. Are you a toddler?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

can i see that video too

do i want to tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it’s on the internet somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

and our children full of microplastics (because it's passed down through the placenta and breast milk)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's in your balls and brain! Doesn't take much to realise it's probably going to kill us

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

plastic is stored in the balls

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd rather have some lead in my pencil.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, they can just get it straight from the source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Some new plastic to add to the family heirlooms. Wonderful!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

So far away, we wait for the day For the lives all so wasted and gone We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days Through the fire and the flames, we carry on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

It's how we become immortal.

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