Twenty-four brain samples collected in early 2024 measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight

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    2110 months ago

    So this is how we become immortal! Just absorb all the plastics and become plastic! Then when we use far more futuristic materials in the future we’ll start absorbing them as well and so on until we’re entirely made of some anti-gravity, self cloaking, spacetime continuum jumping, interdimentional supermaterial!

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        710 months ago

        The first few dozen generations will get cancer, sure but eventually those plastics will be “an essential source of hydrocarbons” and the government will declare a public health emergency when plants and fish are suddenly missing these essential ingredients for chip-in-brain compatibility to work.

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      1610 months ago

      Just absorb all the plastics and become plastic!

      “Life is plastic, it’s fantastic.”
      - Ancient Proverb

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      410 months ago

      “I thought that human technology would make me immortal. But it just made me sad, angry, confused, and vote for a criminal.”