PVC is stored in the balls.
I'm just glad I found a cheap renewable way to get filament for my 3d printer
Too bad you don't have a bigger extrusion nozzle!
It's not the thickness of the nozzle that matters but how you use your hotend
That's what people with small extrusion nozzles say!
A small nozzle is perfectly sufficient if you’re working with enough axes.
I never noticed that the plural of axe and axis are spelled the same.
But also
There’s a humorous acronym in there somewhere. P for penis…
So... everytime I nut it's like a microplastic glitter cannon?
🎉🎉🎉
The stars bursting in air, the glitter every... where.
If you can think of a better way to make our children immune to the plastic virus, I'd like to hear it.
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Congratulations on winning the snark award of the day Squiddy!
I do my part.
And happy cake day!
Thanks! I didn't even realize it was my anniversary.
They found macroplastics in my sample. Plastics so dang macro, they skipped the microscope and put my sample straight in the recycling bin to be sent off and become a 2 liter bottle of Pepsi.
Soon we'll be able to impregnate sex dolls.
I've been trying for ages
What ages?
Everything is contaminated with micro plastics.
Got it! Understood.
That's what papers should be focusing on at this point IMHO.
It’s hard to figure out exactly what’s the damage when the contamination is so widespread.
A study to find the effects of the microplastics might be to find some amount of men with microplastics and some without, and follow up with those men overtime to see if the ones without microplastics have less reproductive issues, cancer rates, etc. instead they find everyone is contaminated so there’s no one we can make a comparison to.
They would have to find men without microplastics, which might end up being extremely difficult.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJNcV12xJfw Dr Swan has been trying to warn us.
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So you inject some of those plastic-eating worms into your balls and problem solved.
I .. umm .. like I don't have testicles but if someone suggested I do this to my ovaries, they'd be having a really big bad day.
It's just a little nibble
Don't worry, Judge Alito and his band of supremes are right on it. I'm sure.
Billionaires endorsing micro plastic testicle cleansing treatments in 5, 4, 3...
Okay sir, this is gonna feel a little cold for a few seconds okay, but it warms up a little. I'm just gonna poke this tube up your urethra. Oh that? That's the ultrasonic creame and we use this wand to direct the energy towards the bad plastics. Not the good plastics, those we don't have to worry about.
Next time they'll store it in glass containers
At first I read “tasted”…
Probably that too.
What, you’ve never heard of a taste test?
it would be funny if the thing that eventually destroys us is some kind of genetic timebomb microplastic syndrome.
Let me coin the phrase acronym TBMS.
People need to stop using PTFE Teflon coated frying pans.
Okay but can I keep using my Teflon condoms?
Yes. That's how you get plastic particles up the hoo-ha. Or no, wait.
So wait, if you didn't use a Teflon condom, what particles would you find in people's vaginas? Does that mean that plastic wants to become human? 🤔😯
Somewhat relevant: I recently stopped using a plastic-bodied electric kettle to boil water for drinks because it was often making drinks taste "of plastic". I have to imagine that some of that would have been redistributed, well, in places implied by this article.
This makes me wonder what regular, close-to-source plastics the tested men were using around the time.
Of course, there's also that a lot of the water supply goes through plastic pipes these days. It would be interesting to know how much of that, specifically, ends up coming out in people's homes.
Don't worry baby it's mostly teflon
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Recent studies in mice have reported that microplastics reduced sperm count and caused abnormalities and hormone disruption.
Microplastics have also recently been discovered in human blood, placentas and breast milk, indicating widespread contamination of people’s bodies.
The impact on health is as yet unknown but microplastics have been shown to cause damage to human cells in the laboratory.
“As emerging research increasingly implicates microplastic exposure as a potential factor impacting human health, understanding the extent of human contamination and its relation to reproductive outcomes is imperative,” said Ning Li, of Qingdao University in China, and colleagues.
In March, doctors warned of potentially life-threatening effects after finding a substantially raised risk of stroke, heart attack and earlier death in people whose blood vessels were contaminated with microscopic plastics.
“If microplastic pollution impacts the critical reproductive process, as evidenced in particular by the decline in seminal quality recorded in recent decades globally, it may prove to be [even worse] for our species in the not too distant future.”
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Could it be possible their test kits are contaminating the samples?
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