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7,000 Microplastics Studies Show We Have One Really Big Problem (www.sciencealert.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by just_another_person@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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[-] chrischryse@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Out of curiosotiy where would something like 3D printing be placed?

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

Not significantly contributing to the global problem, but you might inhale some. Don’t sand your prints for sure.

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Or wear a respirator while you sand...

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

PLA I think just breaks down into lactic acid eventually, but the ABS probably isnt so good

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks this makese.feel.better about pla printing

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty bad, especially with people sanding down productions and stuff.

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[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

for anyone working with acrylic paint, this stuff is plastic so it’s best not to just chuck it down your sink.

There is a way to filter the plastics https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2023/09/28/acrylic-painting-rinse-water-microplastics/

Trying out the golden crash system (though you can just buy buckets and elements yourself to do it cheaper) and it got some very good results.

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

I like how we've gone from looking at the huge garbage patches in our oceans to the amount of microplastic in a drop of water. I don't see it as a material issue, you pick a material and with enough quantity it will pollute. It is a consumer society issue. But maybe it will be easier to change consumer society by dangling the microplastic threat effect so the actual cause can be treated - wait, the psychopaths in CEO positions would lose money then, never mind.

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I fucking hate lemmy now, you are just reddit with a sense of undeserved elitism.

This is a serious as fuck problem and all that anyone replies with are jokes and shitposts.

This is fucking /c/science, not /c/sciencememes

But none of you care especially the mods, so I'm just blocking every one of you.

edit: There's an entire subthread here that is nothing but masturbation jokes, which of course the mods ignore.

Fuck lemmy and its shitstain mod team same as the reddit mods but with worse hygiene. At least on reddit they keep /r/science clean

[-] skye@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

scrolling in the comment section of this news article, i've only seen people either being concerner/shocked, and some sarcastically talking about recycling or something. Nothing about masturbation.

And if your criticism of lemmy is that it's being reddit with elitism, then why try to gatekeep the way people are going to react to an article on c/science? Are we all supposed to have degrees in chemistry or biology before making a comment?

Believe it or not people take heavy news a million different ways and react differently. People ending up making a masturbation joke after discussing microplastics in testicles (i assume this is what happened) harm nothing and no one.

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago

I've already blocked them so I can't link though I reported it too so maybe some mod woke their lazy ass up and deleted it as they should have.

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[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

People having a laugh isn’t the problem.

There is a real problem with the thread format of social media however.

My proof is I can’t find the “in this discussion relevant” thread of masturbation jokes because time has moved on and so did the discussion. [Edit: your comment is only 1h old, so not sure whats up]

We need a much better way to organize our speech and discussions because a single scroll page sorted by time, or contextless votes ain’t doing it.

I actually noticed that some of my comments are reacted very different towards depending on the time of day, what side of planet earth is awake at the time.

There is an argument to be had that certain troll farms love to drown discussions in shitposts and maybe we should be more mindful of the patterns.

But to say we should crack down on any form of jokes, which are an important part of our human expression that goes too far, thats what i disliked about r/science