coffee_whatever

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[–] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I recently watched "Brief history of the Wrong Earths" by Hardcore Sci-Fi, not many of these are well known so you could have so much more ammunition for fooling around like that with people.

"flat earth? Nah, it's expanding bro! Oh wait actually it's 9 hollow earths one in another!"

[–] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago

I would have screamed "do your own research!" before just leaving.

[–] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 105 points 5 days ago (5 children)

"Moon landing was fake!!!" "You still believe the moon is real?"

[–] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Shit like concord somehow gets released, and yet stuff like Project Dragon gets scrapped even though it was weeks from announcement and 3 months from alpha release (if I remember correctly)

[–] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know. There's a lot of plastic in the ocean, and as far as I know there are ways for it to go back into the rest of the ecosystem like water does, so plants will probably gather it as well. Less than animals but still some.

Regardless of whether you eat meat or not, you will get some of it in your system. Whether that's bad, and how much of it could cause issues is still unknown. From what I know there aren't any studies that state what effect microplastics have on our bodies. Probably because you would need a significant amount of people without any in their bodies as a base group, and with how much plastic is used by us every day that would be difficult to find.

Although, eating less meat is generally healthier, better for the ecosystem and cheaper (especially if you grow stuff, even in small pots near a window) so if you can switch to vegan/vegetarian diet without any health problems, you should give it a try but be mindful of your diatery needs, it's easy to not get enough vitamins or proteins if you don't plan your meals well which could lead to anaemia. Even if it doesn't work for you, at least you will know more recipes.

Also, I'm not a scientist, biologist or anyone with any credibility in this field, I'm a software developer and my biology is on high school level, so take everything I said here with a grain of salt since I may be wrong.

[–] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Sure, but how much really is biodegradable? Genuine question since I can't really find any statistics.

[–] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Even a systemic change wouldn't do that much, plastic doesn't break down into other things, it only separates into smaller pieces.

Even if we stopped using all plastic right now, the plastic that is already in the environment would still enter the food chain and accumulate in the top of it.

[–] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

9 out of 10 dentist recommend!*

*in a questionnaire where we ask dentist which tooth paste brands they recommend, and every one of them recommended multiple!

[–] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Reading the part of this article about London being paralysed by tube workers I could only think about the Crowdstrike shutting down millions of systems and yet, life went on as if it didn't even happen unless you were yourself affected

[–] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That women had an EpiPen, imagine yourself having an allergy, making sure to inform the staff at a restaurant multiple times that you have an allergy, bringing an EpiPen with you just in case, and then as you struggle to breathe you use the EpiPen and yet it doesn't help.

This has to be so terrifying, to struggle to breathe when you know you did everything you could to prevent this.

Those lawyers probably earn more in a month than the man could ever get from this lawsuit.

[–] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I really hope you're right

[–] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yea that's bloody ridiculous, especially since that guy signed up for that in 2019. Dude agreed to a TOS half a decade ago and now can't even try to get compensation for the loss of his wife. How is this in any way acceptable?

 
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