Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials

Iceman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Depression, I would say. Same as how boomers are labeled as uncaring and sociopathic because of lead.

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  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The depression is a natural byproduct of civilization. We’re not supposed to sit in concrete boxes and do meaningless tasks for survival. It makes us sad.

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  • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The sociopath part, I think, is likely because they grew up in the easiest time in history.

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    • Aitolda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As an Elder Millenial/Xennial I was lucky enough to make it to adulthood just before it got complicated. Unfortunately we’re talking months.

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      • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Samesies.

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• conicalscientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it’s more physiological. Since microplastics are ingested maybe it’s related to the rise in oral and rectal cancers.

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  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, but the nanoplastics get past the BBB (Blood Brain Barrier), what’s it, a plastic spoon in every human brain? Enough for some psych effects I guess. Oh, there’s 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics spread across just the top layer of the temperate to subtropical North Atlantic

    Shit’s pervasive and in your brain.

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