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Clinicallydepressedpoochie @lemmy.world

1mo ago

What is the acceptable amount of microplastics you would allow into your brain?

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1,000,000 ppm
- Dr evil it’s 2025 there’s far more microplastics in everyone’s brains already
- maniacal laugh

Plastic is very durable, will it make my brain last longer?
Also plasticity of the brain is a crucial function, if it benefits the plasticity that would be great too.
/s
"Will allow" is absolutely irrelevant, if it's in the environment there is no way to control it individually.
- It, checks notes, makes you stupid. Joking.
  Thing is, we could control it if we took it seriously. So really it does come down to how much we should allow. At what point will we take action?
  
  This is not a matter for personal action.
  It's up to environmental scientists to figure out how we can deal with it, and then it's up to lawmakers to make regulations accordingly.
  Of course if you are in the USA you are probably on your own. 🤔
  
  Please post a picture of the tag on the shirt you are wearing right now.
  The overwhelming majority of microplastics in your body are polyester fibers, and most of those originally came from textiles.
  
  we could control it if we took it seriously
  I doubt that. It's already too late. It's literally everywhere.

42 microplastics.
- 420 microplastics?
  
  all i can do is 69 microplastics...
- That's the answer

0
- < 1

You cannot choose what the world throws at you so the acceptable amount is the amount that doesn't cause a problem
- What if you have no idea what that amount is?
  
  Then you either don't know enough about the subject to do anything about it, or it doesn't matter

All of it, if it helps with neuroplasticity

As many as I have now? They aren't coming out and I don't plan to off myself because of that.

6, maybe 7
- I got some fucking bad news for all yall
  
  What, they ain't got that many? Fuck. Can I at least have one?

at least 2

6,597,436. I’d leave the 6,597,437th huddling out in the cold.
- Poor guy

Whatever the oligarchs deem acceptable! They know best what we need.

Dude.

7

How many plastics does it take to get high?
- 420

Preferably none, but I guess the max would be when it began affecting brain function.

See also lead. Its similarly in all of us.

As many as I can fit.

100%. I'm trying to convert my brain matter into an acceptable substrate for circuitry.
- You probably need microsilicons for circuits. Microplastics are similar to micropotato.
  
  Nah, I can just implant the chips. Need an insulator as substrate for mounting the components.

9mm

0%

Tree fiddy

Enough to kill an elephant

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