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"Prop 7 Warning: Capitalism causes cancer"

Oh that's why I always throw them away immediately, my body knows and is trying to protect me

We live in a world of fucking poison. Profit-driven industrialisation has turned the world into a hell for life.

And the thing is it's not necessary at all. It's just to make the paper easier to handle and to pad profits of the chemical/plastic industry.

What's even worse is during the height of covid (when it was acknowledged anyways) when people were using tons of hand sanitizer, alcohol aids absorption and transfer of that stuff into the body so if you worked retail and were sanitizing your hands with that stuff after touching a receipt you were upping your exposure.

It's like how many budget Chinese made electronics have lead in the power cables that you can get on your hands when plugging them in. Why? Because it saves a few pennies over the non-lead process for making them and the foreign capitalists demand the Chinese cheap out on that (max profit) and we have no regulations against it (Europe at least has RoHS which means they use the slightly more expensive modern process for rubberized coatings without lead exposure). China has production capacity of non-lead PVC, many products made in China use it, but many don't including probably that extension cable or power strip you bought which you'll use and touch potentially hundreds of times throughout its life.

Rolling my blunts with that grocery store receipt because you know I'm hardcore.

Yeah I just got money from an atm and got the “warning paper receipts hurt the environment and cause cancer” notification. Threw me off

This has been know for a while. I remember reading news like this a few years ago...

damn I've been playing with thermal printers and custom cutting sheets from larger sheets. Not the thing I wanted to see.

''In America after workers labor to produce the things they consume, their own receipts are laden with toxins, to ensure they die earlier than retirement age or spend their few life savings on private health insurance until bankruptcy and death.''

They will either have to switch to paper that does not include BPS or affix a warning to the products. That could potentially include a sign near a cash register that alerts consumers to the receipts’ toxicity

How about in a tiny font on the bottom of the receipts?

oh

reading this is making my fingers feel weird.

This is old news, although I suppose the legal action is relatively recent.

So that's why they taste so gross.

Some fun effects of BPA^1:

Exposure to BPA is a concern because of the possible health effects on the brain and prostate gland of fetuses, infants and children. It can also affect children's behavior. Additional research suggests a possible link between BPA and increased blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

All things we definitely don't have enough of in the US.

I bet we could buy more stuff to fix this.

FYI, BPS mimics estrogen in the human body. Messes with your hormones. Fun stuff!

Hell yeah gonna post on the internet with crab-like cancer hands. Get it? It's a twofer!

Bro they’re up to s now? Back in my day it was bisphenol a and if you wanted more than that you were shit out of luck!

Kids nowadays!

No receipt gang keeps winning

ironic

Oh I handle receipts all day and have for years... so what cancer will I die from and when? 😂

its super epic when the receipt gets printed anyways even when you don't ask for one (although I usually do...)