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Could microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains? (sh.itjust.works)
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It's not a crazier idea than most of Kennedy's. Someone should do a study. Or make one up, nobody checks anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I am having to admit that human kindness and empathy only extends to one and theirs and to all others only competition and hate, that is the hallmark of humanity. The greatest trick ever performed was convincing anyone that it was ever not thus.