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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 months ago (3 children)

To be totally nitpicky shouldnt this be backwards?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If we're going by real-world evolution rules, OP is the next evolutionary stage compared to their dad, who is in turn the next stage compared to grandpa.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think they meant the placement of the text, switching places between the "grandpop" and the "me". Would make more sens to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right, but I think we're the final evolution, because you don't get Charizard without Charmander.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

But also you aren't born a Charizard but rather Charmander and evolve (get older) towards Charizard.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Asbestos and lead are too dense, thus preventing flight.

[–] BoobaAwooga 52 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The asbestos and lead eras overlapped so your dad was giga fucked

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

And even old people have the microplastics. Isn’t it they can’t do a study with a control group because every single living person has the microplastics?

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think this meme would work better in reverse lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But I want to be Charizard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Don't we all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It's those microplastics on the brain.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

can i see that video too

do i want to tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s on the internet somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

and our children full of microplastics (because it's passed down through the placenta and breast milk)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

It's in your balls and brain! Doesn't take much to realise it's probably going to kill us

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, they can just get it straight from the source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Some new plastic to add to the family heirlooms. Wonderful!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There's a Teflon generation in there somewhere

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure that's just everyone at this point 😬

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Mega Charizard X and Mega Charizard Y exists, as well as Gigantamax Charizard.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you have them backwards, surely the Charizard is the granddad

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

I read it as comparing the three exposures to each other.

The first evolution, Charmander was exposed to lead and the toxic effects of lead are pretty fast acting. Meaning they were weakened the quickest and couldn't evolve.

Charmeleon was exposed to asbestos which has latent toxic effects, they show up decades after exposure. So the Charmeleon lived quite a while before they showed any noticeable effects.

The final evolution was exposed to micro plastics and because, so far, micro plastics seem to be so unreactive they just chill doing nothing the Charazard had an opportunity to evolve.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The toxicity of micro plastics is very minor. To get to the point where it is a problem you need to be exposed to it for a very long time.

I think our asbestos is halogenated organic chemicals like PFAS. They are toxic in every way and we are addicted to their use in food chemistry. Not to eat or anything but to make the packaging look nice.

Because they are indestructible by any natural way their dose in the water supply is ever rising. The cost of health issues is already in the hundred billions.

Micro plastics might be a problem for our children when the dosage in clean water gets to extreme levels.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Microplastics and studies on the effects of it on the human body are too recent to say much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Correct but if the effects are severe we could already say that it's bad. If they are harmful the effect of currently normal levels is on the milde side.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is my whole lifetime so far, a very long time?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Not if you are a toddler. Are you a toddler?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

If they are alive today, they are also full of microplastics!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

With the way things are going, the next generation will have all three!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Plenty of kids full of lead these days.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lucky for us, that's not the only vector! Baby foods keep getting recalled because of lead contamination, and the FDA just released a new limit on lead content in baby food.

Except, they are just guidelines and are not enforceable.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

So far away, we wait for the day For the lives all so wasted and gone We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days Through the fire and the flames, we carry on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It's how we become immortal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I just want to say it's extremely cute and wholesome to call you grandpa grandpop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How is society going to survive when everyone is autistic?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

If everyone is autistic, then no one is autistic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most of it is in meat and we can survive without eating meat.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The first link refers to a study that only researched veggies and fruits.

If you seach for "what food has the most microplstics" the answer is still meat (fish to be exact). Downvoting doesn't change reality.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Worst part is that the mutations created by the lead in the body, led to the mutated Charmeleon body. And those mutations he got from the asbestos, match the Charizard body.

Thematically, it fits

Only Arceus knows what is to come for the next stage.. Olestra mutations?

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