161 points

So the pee isn’t stored in the balls, but the microplastics are

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There’s microplastics in your urine too.

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Wait so microplastics in one ball, pee in the other?

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Sometimes they switch places to keep you guessing

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14 points

So is RoundUp according to an article I read a few days ago.

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4 points

PVC is stored in the balls.

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127 points

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Definitely the signs of a healthy civilization

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They say every, but no one’s checked mine yet.

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Not even in the Mayo clinic?

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They stayed above the waist.

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Fair enough, how are you doing now? Any word out from them yet?

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They’re calling but Dr. Ham on 3 so hold the Mayo

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17 points

You are a heavy sleeper.

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11 points

Is it too much to ask for them to wait until I’m awake until they play with my balls?

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Every tested testi. Testis of non-testee testi’d are not tested.

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They said “every testicle in study.”

Yours were not in the study.

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Can you prove it?

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yes.

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5 points

As far as you know.

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Fine. Please urinate into a coffee mug. Someone will be by soon to collect the sample…

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Pee is stored in the balls.

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We’ve obviously seen a lot of studies about the proliferation of microplastics. They seem to be in practically everything and everyone to an almost cellular level. Are there any modern studies or even just hypotheses for what the actual effects are? Has it just not been long enough for us to gather data?

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The problem might be that if they’re everywhere there’s no control group without them, so it’s hard to say if an effect is actually caused by microplastics or not.

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In a laboratory setting, presumably you could makeq conditions clean enough to grow a cell culture that is free from micro plastics. But that isn’t going to tell you much about systemic effects like in an organ or body.

Maybe you could breed mice in a clean room. Not sure what the generational half life of microplastics is…

The alternative you could probably test is levels of Microplastics. Grow a number of colonies with varying levels of microplastics and compare between them.

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I have a hypothesis that the proliferation of microplastics could be related to the rising cancer rates in young people nobody can yet explain.

At very least, people should stop microwaving plastic containers.

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Don’t forget the food… And the water, and the water used to grow the food, etc. Creating a clean generation of even mice would be pretty difficult, it’s just everywhere, including most of the tools we’d use to make a cleanroom

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Yes. Dr Shanna Swan wrote a book about it called Countdown. She’s proven that it is having a direct impact on our reproductive system as an endocrine disruptor.

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14 points

Eh, humanity is overrated anyway. I’m not an extinctionist, but if we wipe ourselves out that would pretty funny and appropriate.

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11 points

Honestly after watching society and social media for the last few years…just go ahead and demolish the planet to build the bypass.

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The only way to improve the climate is to dramatically decrease the human population. If plastics are good at it, I say USE MORE PLASTICS!!!

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This is just not true, it’s 4 companies driving almost alll climate impacting technologies, human population has been stabilizing across the board and human race is projected to peak at 10 billion.

We have the resources to accommodate that number. It’s our technology, not the people and it’s fucking corporations.

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Sure, yo go first.

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The problem is that plastics are not stable. They are constantly breaking down and releasing an array of chemicals in the process. Great, now they’re inside us too. Oh. They’re inside everything else too so yay?

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Microplastics are midi-chlorian without the Force. They connect us to all that lives.

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So an issue of correlation and causality.

There are a lot of gastro surgeons and specialists that are running long term studies on increased stomach and colon cancer rates in relation to microplastics. A few of them have come out and started recommending colonoscopies starting at 40 instead of 50.

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Big oil has literally attacked our nuts.

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Big oil literally attacking our deez nuts.

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Goteeem Gotusss

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