>Him:”Exactly!”

Even if that were true, the virus would do bad things to your computer.

If the antivirus software were free (it wasn't back then), I'd rather have the antivirus software than the virus...

Ah yah, it's just African American culture to be poor. Sick take.

Culture. Actual Africans in America, from Africa, and their children, have incomes and education status comparable to whites (more or less a bit depending on from where). So it's definitely culture, unless you want to say that people somehow aren't as racist to people who are even more black than African Americans

Conspiracy theories bring comfort to people who are suffering from anxiety induced from the chaotic, random world we live in.

It allows them to cleverly self delude themselves into thinking they are actually incredibly smart. They now have the "truth". It makes them feel special. Once a person then is surrounded by others who also know the "truth", they form relationships that always reinforce their flawed beliefs. This is why it's incredibly difficult to bring a person back to reality after they've bought into conspiracy theories. You're taking away they're percieved uniqueness and in most cases, social circles. Any attempt to do this usually results in that person hiding inside the delusion even further. The person trying to help doesn't know the "truth" so how can they be right about anything else?

Conspiracy theories, misinformation, and propaganda has devastated my country. It caused thousands of Americans to try and over throw our govt. All based on easily verifiable lies.

There are lots of commercial developments that have storm water reservoirs to prevent flooding and prevent the water treatment system from being overloaded.

This study used polystyrene, not polyethylene.

I have no idea tbh I did a home sleep study before but I couldn't tell you any clue on how treatment changed it. I had moderate sleep apnea before.

What? Are you saying my Patagonia jacket is not environmentally friendly?

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This sub has zero credibility

Not saying microplastics are good, they most certainly are not, but the title is alarmist. They used levels way more than a person would be exposed to and introduced them directly into chicken embryos. I'd think you'd get malformations with tons of seemingly innocuous things at high concentrations.

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Bots are automated, cheap alternatives to trolls.

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If you’re aiming for full replacement, perhaps. But as a partial replacement solution it works. A third of power coming from the sun is a significant transition.

Welp, the world and humans are even more fucked than I thought. I'm glad I gestated back in the paleolithic era where not everything was plastic.

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It's a campaign so the rich people can eat meat but we all have to get diabetes to save the planet.

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It’s beyond annoying because I think there are very legitimate reasons to criticize Gates, including the fact he appeared to treat his company like his personal Tinder, but I just can’t help but shoot down the conspiracy nonsense which makes people think I approve of everything he does or am a fan boy.

These people get so swirled up in their fantasies of the good fight they miss actual opportunities to take up the good fight.

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From the article:

> We used a high concentration of polystyrene particles, that would normally not be present in an organism. But it shows what nano-plastics can do in extreme cases on very young embryos.