Rime posted:

https://twitter.com/bclemms/status/1469662822795816968?t=ntX7SFi6xII2f67Bz5FlKQ

Jel Shaker posted:

well at least it’s a boom time for builders and anyone involved in trades to undo all the damage

hey what do you mean that everything is now super expensive and you can’t even get the stuff thanks to supply problems

Crow Buddy posted:

So, um... where are all those people driving to?

Stereotype posted:

it's too bad that there isn't a single thing anyone can do about anything

Gravid Topiary posted:

help, my i thought my toolbox was full of the collected knowledge of humankind, but when i open it there's nothing inside but a post-it note that reads "gently caress u lol lmao"

Crow Buddy posted:

So, um... where are all those people driving to?

Xaris posted:

i gotta say, thats a well done tweeter video. perfect still-shot and then pan away

Crow Buddy posted:

So, um... where are all those people driving to?

Rime posted:

Microplastic pollution aids antibiotic resistance

Alobar posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03OcZuf3zWo

quote:

A rapid review and meta-regression analyses of the toxicological impacts of microplastic exposure in human cells

Highlights

• Cytotoxicity, immune, barrier and oxidative stress endpoints are affected by MPs.
• A meta-regression of microplastic (MP) toxicity characteristics has been conducted.
• Irregular shape was the only MP characteristic predicting cell death.
• Thresholds of MP-induced toxic effects are at environmentally-relevant levels.

Abstract

Humans are exposed to microplastics (MPs) daily via ingestion and inhalation. It is not known whether this results in adverse health effects and, if so, at what levels of exposure. Without epidemiological studies, human cell in vitro MP toxicological studies provide an alternative approach to this question. This review systematically synthesised all evidence and estimated thresholds of dose–response relationships. MEDLINE and Web of Science were searched from inception to March 2021 and study quality was rated using a novel risk of bias assessment tool.

Seventeen studies were included in the rapid review and eight in the meta-regression. Four biological endpoints displayed MP-associated effects: cytotoxicity, immune response, oxidative stress, barrier attributes, and one did not (genotoxicity).

Irregular shape was found to be the only MP characteristic predicting cell death, along with the duration of exposure and MP concentration (μ;g/mL). Cells showed varying cytotoxic sensitivity to MPs, with Caco-2 cells (human adenocarcinoma cell line) being the most susceptible. Minimum, environmentally-relevant, concentrations of 10 μg/mL (5–200 µm), had an adverse effect on cell viability, and 20 μg/mL (0.4 µm) on cytokine release. This work is the first to quantify thresholds of MPs effects on human cells in the context of risk assessment.

Hubbert posted:

quote:

In recent decades, more young people have developed colon and rectal cancers than before. The rate of colon cancer found in those ages 20-29 rose up to 2.4 percent per year from the mid-1980s through 2013, while the rate of rectal cancer among that age group rose 3.2 percent per year since the mid-1970s.

Over time, this steady increase has produced an alarming trend: Millennials are about twice as likely to develop colon cancer and four times as likely to develop rectal cancer compared to people born in 1950.

bobmarleysghost posted:

i propose we simply vote the climate crisis away

LionArcher posted:

didn’t you hear? by 2040 New York will be carbon neutral. they’re already on it.

BIG HEADLINE posted:

And cryptocurrency is green because it doesn't require the use of refined materials for the production of hard currency! It just destroys the ecosystem, but I have it on good authority from my weed guy that his plants are doing just fine!

Alexa, make a note for me: "Planting weed instead of trees for carbon capture, question mark."

By the way (back to seriousness here): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/growing-ounce-pot-indoors-can-emit-much-carbon-burning-full-tank-gas-180977240/

IAMKOREA posted:

These grows are legal now why don't they just do it outside like the sun is free what the gently caress lol

BIG HEADLINE posted:

Because primo ganja needs to be cultivated, maaaaaan!

You need, like, computer-assisted motherfuckin' *lights* and irrigation systems to totally shift the paradigms and max out that THC content like BEAST MODE. I mean, you *could* grow it outside if you, like, wanna trust Mother Nature with your grow op, but here in ~the real world~ if you want top price for your crop you've gotta pay to play, brah. Those paradigms, man. Gotta shift 'em.



And people wonder why "hardcore into weed" and "hardcore into crypto" is a Venn diagram that's almost two concentric circles.

Rectal Death Adept posted:

you'd think microplastics would do something cool

all we get from it is butt cancer?

BIG HEADLINE posted:

"Someone needs to rise up and DO SOMETHING! But until that happens I'll be right here, farming for clicks, likes, and followers."

Perry Mason Jar posted:

There's a thread that runs through all major religions and many spiritual practices: One-ness. Unity. All-Being. Separation as illusion. Otherness as illusion.

But its inverse is also a spiritual practice. That is, we are offered two choices again and again: love of the self or love of others (or other-selves, as it were). Making the choice is the spiritual practice in itself. If you choose neither (not choosing) or something in between (non-choosing) then you get an F on your spiritual quiz. By the by, conscious choosing of love-of-the-self does not require the belief that separation isn't an illusion.

Religions at their purest and spiritual practices, all of them, are systems and tools for psycho-social personal development, for refinement of the self-ish will, intentionality, and therefore one's capability to effect change, whether that change is within or without. It should be obvious that this doesn't require a belief in God per se.

Azathoth posted:

for the record, only thing objectionable in that post was "you start blowing up cars and killing the people who drive them", but that's a doozy

no one's telling you not to be really down on the state of the world and super depressed. world's a hosed up place. i don't personally think it's healthy, but that's not any of my business.

but talking about indiscriminate killing because lol nothing matters, that's always gonna earn some time off and possibly a ban depending on context

Mameluke posted:

better a stochastic terrorist than a real one any day

splifyphus posted:

ok so I totally get that I was brinkposting recklessly and deserved the probe. for my own clarification, what is the difference between my incitement to violence, and this emoticon

cuz like, that's a real emoticon that this forum has, and it gets used a lot! kinda sets the tone.

SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:

I just received a job offer making 3x more than I ever have, basically set for life.

I start Jan 18 so I'm assuming the collapse will come on Jan 16 or so.

Xaris posted:

related, or unrelated (you be the judge), millennials have an unprecedented rise in colon cancer that is actually shocking the medical world and colonoscopy screening age is rapidly dropping (i think its at 45 now?) and will likely drop to 35/40 soon not that far off in our life spans.

it's gotten even worse since 2017. it's basically the millennial (and genx) disease de jour at the moment.

get your buttholes checked out ppl

IAMKOREA posted:

These grows are legal now why don't they just do it outside like the sun is free what the gently caress lol

LionArcher posted:

still I’m the denial phase I see.

https://twitter.com/ClimateHuman/status/1469951786194636803?s=20

Lady Militant posted:

everytime i try to show stuff like this to normal people they will dismiss you as a lunatic. we need an alternative to this "you need to accept a much lower standard of living than previous generations" poo poo cause it's not selling!