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Thankfully it's not much but I don't think I'll deeply sniff my laundry like they do in detergent commercials anymore lol

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[–] SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Great. I've been breathing all week.

[–] Spitfire@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shoot, me too.

Not breathing is hard.

[–] Nfamwap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Not for long though.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I use 3d printers, I'm sure half my brain is plastic by now.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I watched a video about the fumes coming off of 3D printers (spoilers: it ain't good)

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

~~grey matter~~ polymatter

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

At this point it's become like the 80s where everything we did was apparently giving us cancer

[–] xploit@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Oh boy I can finally stop breathing to stay alive!

[–] itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Good news everyone, article says nose only - just need to commit to full time mouth breathing

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Supposedly we ingest/breath a credit card worth of plastic every week.

[–] YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] Voltage@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Where do the plastic go after they are inside us?

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

Everywhere. They are very, very small. Small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier.

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

They don't know. It's found in sperm and embryos too.

My guess: it's the cause of low sperm count

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

So thats why everyone is so fat

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I like to think your body just uses it to replace some other organic materials. So effectively we're now beings who are like 0.5% made of plastic.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mostly down the toilet.

[–] disgrunty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I don't think this is what the smart people meant when they said neuroplasticity is a good thing...

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, okay. Great.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t!