Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works · 6 days agoCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?message-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up177arrow-down1message-squareCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works · 6 days agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-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-26 days 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-squareCarbonIceDragon@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 days 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-up1·6 days agoThat’s why this is in showerthoughts rather than science
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·6 days 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
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 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
I’d look for the reasons to back when fascism has risen in the first place in early 20th century