Twenty-four brain samples collected in early 2024 measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight
here’s a list of all the things anyone will do about this:
WHATS WITH ALL THE YOUNG PEOPLE GETTING CANCER AMIRITE
The recent uptick in millennial colon cancer is believed to be caused by
eating assoral bacteria.https://www.healthline.com/health-news/mouth-bacterium-subtype-found-in-half-of-colon-cancer-tumors
Wait, I thought neuroplasticity was supposed to be good! /s
Wow, your comment really changed the way I think about this
To whom it may concern, This passively accumilated synthetic brain implant appears to cause cancer and cognitive decline.
I did not sign up to beta test your product, or intentionally purchase it. How do I return it?
Sincerely, An organic being.
So this is how we become immortal! Just absorb all the plastics and become plastic! Then when we use far more futuristic materials in the future we’ll start absorbing them as well and so on until we’re entirely made of some anti-gravity, self cloaking, spacetime continuum jumping, interdimentional supermaterial!
Nope, just cancer and we go extinct.
The first few dozen generations will get cancer, sure but eventually those plastics will be “an essential source of hydrocarbons” and the government will declare a public health emergency when plants and fish are suddenly missing these essential ingredients for chip-in-brain compatibility to work.
Just absorb all the plastics and become plastic!
“Life is plastic, it’s fantastic.”
- Ancient ProverbI see you also saw Crimes of the Future
Microplastics are in semen and dick tissue. Right wing conspiracy nuts go on and on about liberals putting shit in our drinking water to kill our fertility all while drinking distilled water out of a very shitty plastic bottle that had probably been sitting around for a couple years.
Shit. So a quick search says a brain weighs 1.5kg and 0.5% is 7.5g. A credit card weighs about 5g. We have more plastic in our brains than there is in a card?
The article mentions that the quantity in 2024 was 50% higher than in 2016 - which is a high increase for just 8 years. This development probably doesn’t slow down, it may even get faster. How much plastic will be in our brains in another 8 years?
Shit.
Yeah, but at least my veggies come shrinkwrapped so I get to enjoy peeling them twice!
Mhm… I don’t think plastic should be where they found it.
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