Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works · 24 hours agoCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?message-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works · 24 hours agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
It’s not a crazier idea than most of Kennedy’s. Someone should do a study. Or make one up, nobody checks anymore.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-222 hours agoI’m “trying” to link it to the recent rise of fascism. And general breakdown of society. You have a point though, a rise in stupidity is part and parcel of the same phenomenon.
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 hours ago recent rise of fascism I’d look for the reasons to back when fascism has risen in the first place in early 20th century
minus-squareCarbonIceDragon@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·21 hours agoI mean, we’ve seen plenty of authoritarianism and facism before plastic was invented, so that seems like a dubious notion
I’m “trying” to link it to the recent rise of fascism. And general breakdown of society.
You have a point though, a rise in stupidity is part and parcel of the same phenomenon.
I’d look for the reasons to back when fascism has risen in the first place in early 20th century
I mean, we’ve seen plenty of authoritarianism and facism before plastic was invented, so that seems like a dubious notion