Please stop the ride, I want off
“Good News, Everyone!”
-Climate Change
The Dacia Sandero!
Unfortunately everyone is full of Microplastics and Teflon.
So we won’t decompose or stick to things. Where’s the downside?
Not sticking to things is bad news for Spiderman.
This is terrible news. I’ve wanted to be a spider man since I was a young boy.
That might be the creatures that are evolving to eat plastics.
Now I’m 2x sadder ☹️
Elder millennial here, I get all three! What’s my prize?
Climate apocalypse
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At least I have something to blame for my mental issues
You get to be the last generation to own property.
How the hell does an elder millelianal get lead?
Leaded gasoline wasn’t fully phased out in the US until 1996, not sure about other countries. The millennial age bracket starts somewhere around the birth year 1982.
Fun fact: it’s still used in piston aircraft.
Edit: sorry, that’s not very fun.
This made me reconsider the foundations of the high crime rates in the neighborhoods nearest the very busy small plane airport in my home town.
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1996? The USA is Liberia with money
Yeah look into Liberian history and you’ll understand why
Oh it definitely happens. I’m a young millennial and I have a friend my age who deals with mental issues because he ate lead paint leftover in their old house as a child. Lead was so prevalent at one point that getting rid of it all isn’t as simple as flipping a switch.
Edit: [wasn’t -> isn’t] There does not in fact exist a switch that we can now flip to remove lead. Thanks @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works.
Is there now a switch to flip for this?
Lmao, unfortunately not. Thanks for catching the typo.
isn’t**
Lead paint was still on the stuff we grew up in. Lead in the plumbing used in our schools, too.
I was in my early teens in the 90s when leaded gas was finally banned in the US. Furthermore, lead doesn’t degrade, only slowly disperse. People born in the early 80s still got a hefty dose of lead. Yay us.
At least we dodged asbestos insulation, and only have to deal with it in old construction when we tear down the walls.
Eat a paint chip from any house built before 1978
This sounds like a TikTok challenge.
While it wasn’t commonplace in gas in the early 80s, it was still prevalent on a lot of long lasting products, and of course, paint.
Don’t forget about asbestos!
Asbestos? Sheeeit, wait until we get to nanostuctures!
Nanostructures? Sheeit, wait until we get to responding to ourselves from another federated service! Wait, what were we talking about?
How masterbatory
I’ve read it’s good for the prostate.
You may be entitled to compensation
You’ll get $9.37 and the lawyers will get $230 billion.
Bless you.
Is Uncle Asbestos coming?
That’s great-grandpa.
I mean it wasn’t banned until the 70s.
Depends on where you live. In some countries it wasn’t banned until the 80s, 90s, or even later.
It’s still in use in many parts of the world
Russia is the biggest asbestos exporterAnd it used to be Australia.
Everything there is trying to kill you!
He’ll do asbestos he can to make it!
Great grandparent of these yutes.
Right inside of you (r lungs)
Gen X over here on all three like it was gonna be a party.
Gen Z - radiation and climate change.
Nope. Still microplastics.
what radiation?
With how much reddit and lemmy suck up to nuclear energie, I dont doubt that our ground water will be fully poluted with nuclear waste soon
Where would the nuclear waste come from?
Atoms
Pfff. You can’t trust atoms. They make up everything.
Atoms decaying *
If you knew anything about how that works (or how to spell energy) you’d realize what a stupid statement that was.
Yes, as that is a well known regular occurrence with modern nuclear power plants…
Most of gen Z are in their 20s, I thought we counted as the last spiderman :(
The reality is that all 3 are full of micro plastics. And there’s some overlap in the Teflon lead generation. And non stick material is still not all that great.
Really, the only problem we’ve solved kinda is lead, unless you’re poor.
To be fair most people still cook with teflon, albeit PFOA-free, so we’re still actively consuming teflon. And the worst part? You need to use plastic cooking-utensils with teflon pans. And as plastic utensils wear down they shed lots of microplastics straight into your food.
I’m usually very sceptical about things that “might supposedly” be bad for you, but even I refuse to buy any teflon pan and/or plastic cooking utensils. I now use cast iron with steel utensils :D
Radiation? That’s were the lead poisoning comes in handy ;)
Trust me, Microplastics boy. You’re full of those other things too.
Also all three of you are likely full of shit … because your colons are full of cancerous polyps.
Now what does cancerous polyps have to do with my shit levels?
Haha. Shut up, you fuck.
I had those removed, thanks.
Me looking at what our government is doing:
Funding the big corporations that poison us, because so many are anti regulation.
Jokes on you, my house still has some lead pipes
Jokes on me, my house still has some lead pipes
fix’d that for you.
The kids are also full of lead but its alot more short term
Fun fact, Teflon was invented by dupont. And the Wikipedia page is fairly clear on the safety of Teflon being in question. The real concern is who did Dupont pay off to make Teflon a thing?
Teflon is safe in typical use cases.
Here’s a great video from Adam Ragusea: https://youtu.be/5FNNKhVoUu8?si=vXrfusnsGzvXErfn
The real issue is PFAS or PFOA, which are used to help bind Teflon, or other nonstick polymers, to other surfaces. This was all done in the early 1900s, and the likelihood of some conspiracy is low. Especially since they didn’t (and literally couldn’t) know the long term effects of “forever chemicals”.
The real conspiratorial behavior comes AFTER the knowledge that PFAS or PFOA are harmful, and what actions, or inactions, of the companies and government are taken.
Remember there are people in our government (not all, but enough) who actively want LESS government: less regulation, less taxation, leas oversight. AND there are a vast quantity of companies that want the very same thing: unfettered freedom to do whatever the fuck they want, without consequence.
And that handful of government employees will easily be bribed or influenced by special interest lobby groups, businesses, “think tanks”, etc. (funded and/or founded by the aforementioned businesses).
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Getting a NEW Teflon pan is less than ideal, and should be avoided. You can keep the one you have, and keep using it until the nonstick properties degrade, then toss it.A great video about this from MinuteFood: https://youtu.be/R1hbV3EzOD4?si=bQZAQsRWLgX9dyJX
And the associated MinuteEarth video: https://youtu.be/H3aFzQdWQTg?si=bVIBp4tm_uLi7ScQ
A small correction of the chemical nature, Teflon is PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene), which belongs to the class PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances).
PFOA (Perfluorooctanoic acid) also belongs to the same class, PFAS.
Leaded addons for fuel was invented by the same guy who invented freon as pressure gas in aerosols and airco making a hole in the ozon layer. He fucked us twice
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Companies full of tax dollars, watching from a nearby skyscraper, as they poison us all.
