Not to mention that gender affirming surgery increases the likelihood that doctors will have access to testicles for research.

I mean, not by a lot but it's a hell of a lot easier to survive donating your testicles to science than it is your brain.

Loke To Stidy is my new band name.

The balls or the brain ones?

In fact, forget the science

I’d ejaculate my brain for science

fucking helllll, i pretend a lot that i don't care about the downfall of the human race because i'm trying to fake it till i make it into not caring

but between global warming, microplastics, rise in extremism, late stage capitalism, wars and genocides...

i'm really starting to believe we might be one of the last generations of modern humans left.

We made plastic for your brain, youre welcome.

My mom used to say my brain is monke

Probably a visualisation in terms of weight, not size. Imagine that much liquid ig.

Extremely concerning nonetheless. Lead asbestos level

those came from the ocean

Any foreign objects made up of substance that are non-reactive can end up embedded in our bodies. Most obviously, there are medical devices that might permanently be left there: screws, prosthetics, artificial meshes and valves and membranes, etc. There are also some foreign objects that come from trauma, like shrapnel. Even tattoos are foreign pigments placed in a particular layer of skin that the body doesn't have a mechanism for clearing out.

But generally speaking, if our body doesn't have the enzymes to break down a substance into constituent compounds small enough to transport out, or if that foreign substance sits in a place where our body doesn't have a mechanism to actually get to, it stays in the body.

The reason why we're talking about microplastics, though, is that these compounds might actually be more reactive than previously assumed. If the plastics don't break down at all, then there's no chemical reaction byproducts to worry about. But if they break down very slowly, and the products of those reactions interfere with our biological processes in those tiny quantities, then we have a problem.

Because Steel and Wool degrade into their chemical components by chemical reactions (like oxidation or mold). Plastic wont, it gets smaller and smaller but it stays plastic. So Steel and Wool "skip" being really small, they become other chemicals nature can work with.

(this might be wrong, pls correct if so)

Specifically steel and wool are manufactured to be what they are. The process probably involves a step to remove micro plastics.

I just put the small pieces up my nose. No need to grind. Those hand pieces from the little people are ideal. Pull them out the arm and right up the nose. Then a 1x1 block to push it all the way up there.

no, in the ocean.

Not to mention there's a huge number of humans that don't use the other organ we're discussing.

"...I never have believed it a single time" is such a tired tripe in comments. I can't stop thinking about it.