pleasestopasking@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 17 hours agoMicroplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennialsmessage-squaremessage-square117fedilinkarrow-up1430arrow-down111
arrow-up1419arrow-down1message-squareMicroplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennialspleasestopasking@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 17 hours agomessage-square117fedilink
minus-squareIceman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·11 hours agoI wonder what our neurosises will be.
minus-squareconicalscientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·9 hours agoI think it’s more physiological. Since microplastics are ingested maybe it’s related to the rise in oral and rectal cancers.
minus-squareMalReynolds@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·8 hours agoYeah, but the nanoplastics get past the BBB (Blood Brain Barrier), what’s it, a plastic spoon in every human brain? Enough for some psych effects I guess. Oh, there’s 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics spread across just the top layer of the temperate to subtropical North Atlantic Shit’s pervasive and in your brain.
minus-squareTankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·10 hours agoDepression, I would say. Same as how boomers are labeled as uncaring and sociopathic because of lead.
minus-squareScott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoThe depression is a natural byproduct of civilization. We’re not supposed to sit in concrete boxes and do meaningless tasks for survival. It makes us sad.
minus-squareP00ptart@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoThe sociopath part, I think, is likely because they grew up in the easiest time in history.
minus-squareAitolda@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoAs an Elder Millenial/Xennial I was lucky enough to make it to adulthood just before it got complicated. Unfortunately we’re talking months.
I wonder what our neurosises will be.
I think it’s more physiological. Since microplastics are ingested maybe it’s related to the rise in oral and rectal cancers.
Yeah, but the nanoplastics get past the BBB (Blood Brain Barrier), what’s it, a plastic spoon in every human brain? Enough for some psych effects I guess. Oh, there’s 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics spread across just the top layer of the temperate to subtropical North Atlantic
Shit’s pervasive and in your brain.
Depression, I would say. Same as how boomers are labeled as uncaring and sociopathic because of lead.
The depression is a natural byproduct of civilization. We’re not supposed to sit in concrete boxes and do meaningless tasks for survival. It makes us sad.
The sociopath part, I think, is likely because they grew up in the easiest time in history.
As an Elder Millenial/Xennial I was lucky enough to make it to adulthood just before it got complicated. Unfortunately we’re talking months.
Samesies.