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Ok so what do we want? Toxic plastics that last forever or toxic plastics that break down in the environment after 3-5 years?
Because that is the gambit here. We're not going going to just get rid of plastics altogether.
Also, this article is setting off my BS meter by claiming plastics contain 16,000 toxic substances but not showing how much of that is realistically possible to get into your body. The dose makes the poison!
"This spider contains 1300 toxic substances—one of which will kill you if even a tiny droplet gets in your blood! And these spiders are out in the environment!"
...and not stable enough! Not only that but if they're paying $40/hour you can be sure as shit they're never going to raise that rate as long as you work there.
Also, a huge chunk of your paycheck is going to go to useless health insurance and it's not like these companies are banding together to lobby Congress to make it so they don't have to pay for that anymore (by demanding a single payer system).
The worm in his brain is just trying to reproduce 🤷
That's why he brought his children.
I mean, as long as the enablement dialog is truthful...
All your fetish porn is about to be synchronized to your OnDrive at work.
[Embrace] [Abort Work] [OK]
Throw the book at them!
I'm thinking Miku Miku oooweeeoooh.
I was under the impression that polyethylene and polypropylene microplastics don't actual harm humans until they get out into the environment, absorb nasty substances, then re-release them when entering our digestive tract.
If you eat those plastics they just go through you (for the most part). The reason why we all have microplastics permanently stuck in our bodies is because we breathed them in. Not because we ate them.
It's an important distinction, I think. Because a tiny microplastic thread that stuck inside a can of tuna can be 1000% worse than a tiny chunk of polypropylene or polyethylene that has only come in contact with your own food.
Also, polypropylene microplastics fall—they don't float in the air so easily like polyethylene. So there's a great big difference when it comes to the type of plastic bag (as far as this lawsuit goes... In terms of harm). I'm also not certain that a frozen or microwaved polyethylene or polypropylene bag would emit microplastics into the air at all. I couldn't find any studies about it.
For reference, normally—to get polyethylene airborne in the form of microplastics—it needs to be processed into threads. Those threads then break apart into tiny strands that can float on the wind (because they're so light). The type of microplastic you'll get from a polyethylene bag won't be a tiny thread like that. It'll be a literal chunk (will look like a rough rock under a microscope).
Having said all that, there are some studies indicating the that microplastics in our guts can change the makeup of our microbiome (temporarily—while the plastic is there). This can cause a swelling response which is bad. So there's that 🤷
I say all this because it annoys TF out of me when articles talk about "microplastics" like they're all the same. They're not, damnit! Some aren't even a problem! PHA is harmless, for example and PLA breaks down within 3 years or so which is fast enough that it doesn't really matter (because we don't use it that much anyway so the rate at which is accumulates in any given spot is unlikely to be a serious problem).
Don't even get me started on colorants! 😤
1 year for every book seems an appropriate sentence
No! An appropriate sentence would end in a period, question mark, or exclamation point!
Are you sure the cat isn't just trying to cap yo ass?
To be fair, there's nothing stopping someone from recording everything anyway via an endless list of alternative methods.
If you're running a virtual Windows desktop from within Linux, for instance.
The security professional inside of me sees this as a major problem: It's going to make a bunch of clueless users think they have some sense of security when they absolutely have none.
Of course, that's Windows in a nutshell 🤷
Don't be fooled: It's just management blowing smoke.