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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Are they shooting the new Jackass movie there?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

Sounds like they already did.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

Sharks in the Bahamas Are Full of Cocaine, Caffeine, and Painkillers

Sounds like the beginning of a pretty good night out.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago
[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Sharks with contaminated blood showed shifts in metabolic markers tied to stress and energy use. The researchers aren’t sure what the long-term effects of exposure might be, but similar studies in other species have shown that exposure to stimulants like caffeine can alter behavior

Can we get one of those spider-takes-drug-X studies, but sharks?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

The researchers aren’t sure what the long-term effects of exposure might be

I have a vague idea...

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Sharknado -> cocaine bear -> cocaine shark -> cocaine Sharknado?

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago
[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 25 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Sensational Writing 101:

The crystal clear waters of the Bahamas are filled with enough traces of human pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs that it’s showing up in shark blood.

"filled with enough traces"

What do you motherfuckers think "traces" means?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 10 hours ago

They mean evenly dispersed

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Legalize soft- and harddrugs and stop profiting of pharmaceutical drugs and all of this will go away.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 41 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit being a shark.

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

Dude who can morph into any other species at will.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Surely you don't mean that.

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

I did mean that, and don't call me Shirley.

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And microplastics and human excrement and crude oil and everything else humans dump into oceans.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 10 hours ago

Obviously, the natural headline here is that there are sharks on drugs in the Bahamas. While that was technically happening, that’s a much more sensationalistic take. The reality is that we humans are blissfully unaware of the fact that the drugs we put in us eventually leave us and end up saturating whatever they flow into, like microplastics.

[–] NorskSud@piefed.social 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It's a stressful life being a shark.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

When is the last time you heard someone say something nice about a shark?

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 2 points 12 hours ago

I’m sure their friends say nice things.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

And everyone alive is "full of" radioactive waste from nuclear bomb tests in the 60's. And by "full of" I mean, technically detectable by extremely precise scientific equipment but in such small quantities that it has zero effect on the organism and is measured by the number of molecules present rather than even something small like micrograms.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 3 points 16 hours ago
[–] agingelderly@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 10 hours ago

Hey man, nobody is ever lucky who is in a situation where they have drugs pushed into them without consent.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 19 hours ago
[–] bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Where's @sharkfucker420 when you need him?