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[–] iamanurd@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm of the opinion that the car-based society in the States throughout the 50s to the 90s is the reason they're all fucked in the head due to lead poisoning from gas fumes

So yes, heavy metal poisoning

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That might explain some of the boomer problems. Jones is a gen-xer though, we had phased lead based fuel out of almost everything by the time he was growing up.

He very well could have eaten lead paint chips as a kid though. His supplements have also been tested and shown to contain unhealthy amounts of lead.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scores-half-americans

Leaded gasoline calculation to have stolen over 800 million cumulative IQ points since 1940s

A new study calculates that exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood stole a collective 824 million IQ points from more than 170 million Americans alive today, about half the population of the United States.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

about half the population of the United States.

Hey, about half voted for Trump, weird coincidence.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Possibly. I think he really lacks an ability to see how his attention seeking habits negatively affect others, and I don't think he's quite capable of having it explained to him.

I feel like something broke in his brain when he got fuck you money for doing good investigative journalism in the early 90s.

Like his brain went "oh okay. Just tell people how they're being manipulated and you get a free ride." and he's been stuck there ever since. And his tales of how we're being manipulated grew taller and taller.

It's like some attention seeking shit mixed with a super low IQ. Idk.

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago

His inability to stop speaks to me of self-destructive desires.