• filcuk@lemmy.zip
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      18 days ago

      It will quadruple revenue - deregulation and PFAS for everyone!
      Hope you can afford regular sponge bacteria cleansing baths, or you get them super-cancers real quick.

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        17 days ago

        Omg, ikr?

        People automatically start bitching about anything ever so slightly restricting harmful corporation’s actions even when they aren’t even involved with the profits (which also shouldn’t matter, but it’s funny that it’s not even their greed, just brainwashed by propaganda they happily repeat & would die for).

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    Oh fuck I mean I would love this to be real but this is going to be abused so much in the next couple years. Supermarket shelves and social media posts will fucking be filled with drinks and pills containing (probably nonviable forms) these bacteria by the loads. Good luck everyone.

    Also most of us already have enough microplastic embedded in our brains to last a lifetime.

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        I know it’s a joke, but that’s almost certainly not going to be the case. Pathogenic bacteria have fundamentally different metabolism and genes.

        What is more likely is either: ecological imbalance or the bacteria only metabolises the harmful chemicals under extreme deprivation of other carbon sources, which is never realistic, so they never do

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          Well I mean if people throw off their gut microbiome by overloading on this bacteria, it might still be harmful in that way. It does not need to be pathogenic in that sense.

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        But before that they will discover some nutrients which are very beneficial for this bacteria so people will also consume that by the loads.

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    18 days ago

    I’m waiting for people to start using leeches again to treat pfas in the blood.

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      18 days ago

      Then 20 years from now, we’ll all have micro sponges in our ovaries and testicles.