I don't have a video, but from what I understand is they are small plastics (as the name suggests) smaller than 1mm. Larger plastics pass through your digestive system and are excreted, but smaller ones can pass into the body's internal bloodstream and accumulate in internal organs.

The body cannot cleanse them as they are inert. Scientists are researching their relationship with degradation of bodily functions resulting in infertility, inflammation and other diseases.

This is an issue that will worsen over time as plastic production continues unabated. Because humans are at the top of the food chain, as plastics accumulate in our environment, they will increase in over time in the foods we consume (bioaccumulation, think of plankton absorbing plastics, that are eaten by krill and build up in the crustacean's body, then the krill is eaten by a minnow and because one minnow eats many krill, the proportion of microplastic increases as you move up the trophic chain. That minnow is eaten by a tuna, that is then eaten by a human. That person human will ingest more microplastics.

This is in addition to the plastic present in water, vegetables and grains through contamination of ground and rain water, which isn't removed by basic water treatment. Or the plastics that fray from synthetic clothing, especially under friction and heat such as during washing, and are inhaled.

Recycling of plastics is also a complete non-starter because the the plastic degrades in quality with each reuse before it joins the rest of the rubbish in landfill.

At what point the quantity of plastics in the brain, in particular, causes it to totally stop working goodness knows. A recent report says that the average USA adult has a plastic spoon (that's the spoon itself, not the measurement of the bowl of the spoon)'s worth of plastics in the brain. The longer you can delay this the better. Probably.

I've heard that date thrown around, respectively attributed to 1) Xi saying that China must be military ready for armed reunification by that date, but not presupposing that armed reunification is the only option and 2) a RAND report that said the US would fall behind the PRC in terms of military capability by this date and the USA could not secure Taiwan in the event of armed reunification. I do not put stock in the former. PRC foreign affairs has always said China would prefer peaceful reunification and has set no fixed date. Taiwan surveys also show that 'keep the status quo' is usually the most preferred option so there is no set timeline for Taiwanese independence afaict, because it would be politically disastrous for any party that set that timer ticking

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Your original post was treated with suspicion because it falls very close to anti-Semitic rhetoric that Israel is 'the tail wagging the dog' so to speak, because of 'Judeo-Bolshevism' having a unique hold over the rest of the world, rather than being a explicit project endorsed and bankrolled by US Zionists.

崇洋媚外 runs deep in the Shanghai neoliberal clique (I hope I'm using that chengyu correctly)

It's extremely irresponsible phrasing. CO2 is still increasing. They probably meant 'the increase in CO2 is not slowing as fast as it needs to'

Imagine getting in the spave elevator and some jerk presses all the buttons 😩😡

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I voted for rfk because i want the unpasteurised gamer girl pee

That's exactly the thing, in the interview with Dumbrill, they discuss that Duggan had apparently full awareness and approval from the US airforce to train the pilot candidates in South Africa over a decade (?) ago. It was all above board. Iirc the US later down the track they approached him to become an informant and he apparently declined, which precipitated them arresting him without charge in 2023, for a crime that may not be on the books in both Aus and USA (a requirement for extradition). The extradition was approved over the Christmas break when there are fewer people around to scramble to his defence. It's an absolute farce free {country|market} my arse.