Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works · 12 hours agoCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up172arrow-down1message-squareCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works · 12 hours agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
It’s not a crazier idea than most of Kennedy’s. Someone should do a study. Or make one up, nobody checks anymore.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 hours agoI’m “trying” to link it to the recent rise of fascism. And general breakdown of society. You have a point though, a rise in stupidity is part and parcel of the same phenomenon.
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 hours ago recent rise of fascism I’d look for the reasons to back when fascism has risen in the first place in early 20th century
minus-squareCarbonIceDragon@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 hours agoI mean, we’ve seen plenty of authoritarianism and facism before plastic was invented, so that seems like a dubious notion
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 hours agoThat’s why this is in showerthoughts rather than science
I’m “trying” to link it to the recent rise of fascism. And general breakdown of society.
You have a point though, a rise in stupidity is part and parcel of the same phenomenon.
I’d look for the reasons to back when fascism has risen in the first place in early 20th century
I mean, we’ve seen plenty of authoritarianism and facism before plastic was invented, so that seems like a dubious notion
That’s why this is in showerthoughts rather than science