Science Plastics, Brain Rot, and Republicans

https://threestringraconteur.com/2021/10/30/plastics-brain-rot-and-republicans/
Hey, I think I found a clue! Did you know lots of plastics leech chemicals called phthalates (THA-lates) into food? It’s linked to what I’m calling brain rot, and it’s all through our fast food.
There’s a recent study published in Nature called “Phthalate and novel plasticizer concentrations in food items from U.S. fast food chains: a preliminary analysis.” The researchers drove all around town buying hamburgers, fries, chicken nuggets, chicken burritos, and cheese pizzas. (First question: Why can’t I get that job?) Anyway, they tested all that glop for phthalates and found that most fast food was lousy with the chemicals. Especially fries.
(Oh, noes! Not the fries!)
Shut up. The researchers strongly link Phthalate exposure to developmental problems, testosterone changes, and an increased risk for children’s learning, attention, and behavioral issues. So, you know, brain rot, the decay of manners, and your dick falling off.
OK, maybe that last part is just a wish.
Last question: who do you think eats more fast food: Dems or the corrupt Corporate Elephant Syndicate? I mean, look at their previous Idiot-In-Chief. Cheeseburgers and fries all around.
Maybe that explains the Republican nonsense. Why else would grown-ups yell “Child abuser!” and “This is rape!” at confused kids just trying to walk to school? Is that why they hate women so much? At the very least, chemically induced brain rot might explain why this confident woman pushed a brass key against her chest and called it “magnetism.”

 

[Positron]

Phthalate exposure...

... is associated with feminization. Guess which party is more popular with trannies?

 

[Ser Prize]

Didn't they also find that chemicals within popular types of plastics are probably linked to obesity?

 

[DumbDude42]

blacks eat more fast food than any other ethnicity in america (also the most obese racial group) and are overwhelmingly democrats

 

[Garm]

Projection is always the answer.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

Didn't they also find that chemicals within popular types of plastics are probably linked to obesity?

Exposure levels are tiny. Parts per trillion. Even if they did cause obesity, you wouldn't get enough to matter.

The poison is the dose.

 

[Ser Prize]

Exposure levels are tiny. Parts per trillion. Even if they did cause obesity, you wouldn't get enough to matter.

The poison is the dose.

The chemical gets transported into the food IIRC. It was something about how it primes your body to create fat cells instead of expending the energy.

Now think about how basically all modern food is wrapped in plastic or transported in plastic containers. Even animals at the zoo, who have tightly controlled diets, are seeing the obesity issue.

 

[The Lawgiver]

There was a lawsuit about plastic particles in tyson chicken years ago but no instead of bringing up food contamination shit and how lenient government parties seem to be to actual food contamination shit like that it's literally just more "ORANGE MAN BAD REPUBLICANS MEAN AND DUMB BECAUSE EAT BURGER!!! >:[ " shit lmao.

 

[Drain Todger]

Tons and tons of our plastics come from China, and they're full of phthalates, smell like old car tires, and offgass VOCs continuously because they're made from shitty recycled plastic and the extra plasticizers are there to soften them up.

Campaign to Ban Chemical-Emitting Smelly Plastic from China

toxic chemicals

dynamics.org

These poisonous plastics are increasingly finding their way into food industry shit. Storage bins, factory equipment, etc.

Really, they have no place on American shelves or in our homes, much less touching our fucking food.

 

[Penis Drager]

Without bothering to read the whole study (because the author clearly hasn't):

Results​

We found DEHT at the highest concentrations in both foods (n = 19; median = 2510 µg/kg; max = 12,400 µg/kg) and gloves (n = 3; range: 28–37% by weight). We detected DnBP and DEHP in 81% and 70% of food samples, respectively. Median DEHT concentrations were significantly higher in burritos than hamburgers (6000 µg/kg vs. 2200 µg/kg; p < 0.0001); DEHT was not detected in fries. Cheese pizza had the lowest levels of most chemicals.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

The chemical gets transported into the food IIRC. It was something about how it primes your body to create fat cells instead of expending the energy.

Now think about how basically all modern food is wrapped in plastic or transported in plastic containers. Even animals at the zoo, who have tightly controlled diets, are seeing the obesity issue.

Plastics aren't all the same. Pthalates are commonly used in PVC plastic. Guess what isn't commonly used in food packaging.

The connection requires food containers to be high in pthalates, but it's actually very low. Vanishingly low. Wrong kind of plastic.

I hate how the media and "science" treat all plastics the same with their headlines. Fucking cellulose is a plastic, technically.

 

[Ser Prize]

Plastics aren't all the same. Pthalates are commonly used in PVC plastic. Guess what isn't commonly used in food packaging.

The connection requires food containers to be high in pthalates, but it's actually very low. Vanishingly low. Wrong kind of plastic.

I hate how the media and "science" treat all plastics the same with their headlines. Fucking cellulose is a plastic, technically.

I'll have to re-read the article, but I swear it's more common than that. For reference: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-obesity-era is what I'm talking about.

Tons and tons of our plastics come from China, and they're full of phthalates, smell like old car tires, and offgass VOCs continuously because they're made from shitty recycled plastic and the extra plasticizers are there to soften them up.

Campaign to Ban Chemical-Emitting Smelly Plastic from China

toxic chemicals

dynamics.org

These poisonous plastics are increasingly finding their way into food industry shit. Storage bins, factory equipment, etc.

Really, they have no place on American shelves or in our homes, much less touching our fucking food.

You can't escape plastics no matter what you do. Fuck, we're typing on it right now. I'm not usually one for regulation but this seems like something that should be regulated.

 

[Drain Todger]

I'll have to re-read the article, but I swear it's more common than that. For reference: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-obesity-era is what I'm talking about.


You can't escape plastics no matter what you do. Fuck, we're typing on it right now. I'm not usually one for regulation but this seems like something that should be regulated.

Plastics are used because they're light and offer the convenience of wood without the swelling and the impermeability of glass without the weight, while also being mostly quite impact-resistant. Basically, they're a "miracle material". Try to imagine today's world of globalist bullshit and just-in-time logistics, but without plastic. Picture everything being bottled in glass, with wood being used for most other objects. Shipping would be exorbitant, and all the forests would be stripped bare.

Plastics are also toxic as shit, act as endocrine disruptors, and do not break down easily. When they do break down, they grind up and make microplastic particles that can be as small as 5 to 20 microns in size, or nanoplastic particles that are even smaller, and can cross the blood-brain barrier and take up residence inside cells.

Microplastics are everywhere — but are they harmful?

Scientists are rushing to study the tiny plastic specks that are in marine animals — and in us.

www.nature.com

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains tens of thousands of tons of floating plastic.

 

[DumbDude42]

Picture everything being bottled in glass, with wood being used for most other objects. Shipping would be exorbitant, and all the forests would be stripped bare.

the replacement for plastic wouldn't be wood and glass, but metal.
sheet metal does almost everything better than plastic, except for keeping things warm (or cold) due to high thermal conductivity. the main upside of plastic is that it's dirt cheap because the materials that go into producing it are basically waste products from the oil refining process.

 

[Drain Todger]

the replacement for plastic wouldn't be wood and glass, but metal.
sheet metal does almost everything better than plastic, except for keeping things warm (or cold) due to high thermal conductivity. the main upside of plastic is that it's dirt cheap because the materials that go into producing it are basically waste products from the oil refining process.

Of course. Aluminum is nice and low-density, has many of the same advantages as plastic, and is pretty much infinitely recyclable. You can melt down old soda cans in a crucible at home and cast them into whatever you want.

 

[Pentex]

Last question: who do you think eats more fast food: Dems or the corrupt Corporate Elephant Syndicate? I mean, look at their previous Idiot-In-Chief. Cheeseburgers and fries all around.

He also came from New York, one of the biggest Dem bughives in America.
Really makes you think...

 

[Dindus]

The chemical gets transported into the food IIRC. It was something about how it primes your body to create fat cells instead of expending the energy.

Now think about how basically all modern food is wrapped in plastic or transported in plastic containers. Even animals at the zoo, who have tightly controlled diets, are seeing the obesity issue.

Animals at the zoo get fat because they get fed by idiots that come to see them, and the shit about chemicals making your body prefer creating fat cell instead of expending energy is pure nonsense

 

[Ser Prize]

Animals at the zoo get fat because they get fed by idiots that come to see them, and the shit about chemicals making your body prefer creating fat cell instead of expending energy is pure nonsense

But in the article I linked the zoo animals have the same diets since the 80's. I don't think you can chalk up all these critters getting fat to hand outs from zoo tourists.

Plastics are used because they're light and offer the convenience of wood without the swelling and the impermeability of glass without the weight, while also being mostly quite impact-resistant. Basically, they're a "miracle material". Try to imagine today's world of globalist bullshit and just-in-time logistics, but without plastic. Picture everything being bottled in glass, with wood being used for most other objects. Shipping would be exorbitant, and all the forests would be stripped bare.

Plastics are also toxic as shit, act as endocrine disruptors, and do not break down easily. When they do break down, they grind up and make microplastic particles that can be as small as 5 to 20 microns in size, or nanoplastic particles that are even smaller, and can cross the blood-brain barrier and take up residence inside cells.

Microplastics are everywhere — but are they harmful?

Scientists are rushing to study the tiny plastic specks that are in marine animals — and in us.

www.nature.com

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains tens of thousands of tons of floating plastic.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QHK2Zg5OibI

Isn't there some sort of plankton that eats plastics?

 

[make_it_so]

If eating nothing but fast food leads to being Republican, then explain MovieBob.

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

I think Three String Raconteur might be even worse then dailykos, Wonkette, The Root, or any of those "70 IQ useful idiot is very angry" sites. Raconteur is every bit as exceptional as those, but it has this thin pseudointellectual veneer that makes it less funny and more annoying.

It reminds me a lot of Cole Smithy actually. He's barely more intelligent than his brother, but he acts like he thinks he's a genius. As a result, everyone focuses on Chris and dismisses Cole as the pseud he is.