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The very first word in the article is a glaringly obvious fucking typo. Why on earth would I want to read anything that website has to say?!?

I mean, you literally just open it in a browser with a paywall remover. It takes less effort than fucking moaning about paywalls -

Tiny pieces of plastic that pollute the environment can be produced by simply opening a plastic bottle or tearing a food wrapper.

Microplastics are between 0.001 and 5 millimetres in size and are usually either produced directly, or form when large plastic debris breaks up. We now know that millions of tonnes of microplastics are abundant in the environment and can harm marine life by entering the food chain. Microplastics are also found in our food, although the effect on human health is still unclear.

“Plastic is everywhere and enters our daily lives – and microplastics might be there as well,” says Cheng Fang at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

He and his colleagues tested whether everyday activities could release microplastics. They opened common plastic items such as bags, bottles and packaging film by twisting the bottle cap or tearing the bag, for example, or by cutting them with scissors or a knife, which deforms and fractures the plastic. Read more: Plastic tea bags shed billions of microplastic particles into the cup

The team used a scale that is sensitive to weights as low as one nanogram to collect and measure the microplastics that landed on its surface. Between about 10 and 30 nanograms of microplastic were released from opening the plastic items, which amounts to between 14,000 and 75,000 individual microplastic particles. But the team says that the true amount released is probably even higher, because many microplastics are statically charged and remain in the air.

Studying the microplastics with a microscope revealed that most were in the form of fragments or fibres of varying shape and size. Some could be seen with the naked eye, such as those from cutting bottles. The team also used a technique called spectroscopy to deduce the microplastics’ chemical composition and found the majority were made of polyethylene, one of the most widely used plastics.

“This finding sends an important warning,” says Fang. “We might need to take our own responsibility and work with industry together to reduce [microplastics].”

“You’d love to say that you’re surprised and shocked at the results, but unfortunately, you’re not. We’re now realising that microplastics are literally everywhere,” says Christian Dunn at Bangor University, UK. It is now crucial that we work to find out the possible health effects of microplastics and cut back on unnecessary plastic use, he says.

Nature Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-61146-4

I thought that too, with the TPM thing

Turns out it’s just turned off by default on a lot of mobos. You just go into bios and enable it

Then use a program called Rufus to make a bootable flash drive but without all the shite and spyware, and just upgrade W10 to 11 in minutes

Honestly I put it off for ages because of everyone saying how bad it was, turns out they just don’t know how to customise it to their liking

Probably spending too much time trying to get their printer to work on Linux lol

“Bethesda covers its arse in anticipation of a bunch of terminally online American teenagers who just learnt the word ‘nazi’ and would use it to describe a fuckin nun if it made them feel a bit morally superior for ten seconds”

I love monkey puzzle trees! They look like they’d be so easy to climb

I don’t like trying to climb them though

Seriously? Fuck off spammer, shove your tech-bro-business-speak up your blue-sky-solution

A pendantii

What’s the resistance of fuckin SPAM in ohms?

Removed by mod

Meanwhile in the sane world -

Why not just limit the size of carry-on like every other airline?

I did that exact same thing with Twitter about seven years ago and I still don’t understand why someone would use it

Yes but you can just tell everyone the attacks never happened, for attention

Here’s why I’m not clicking your article (And you know how to fix that)

The fuckin journalists are worse than the sound engineers

See?

The “whilst obvious hyperbole” bit is the clue. The two situations/comments/opinions are just examples, never happened and never will

It wouldn’t have mattered what examples I’d made up, someone like you would come along and go “wELL aKShULLy”

Fucksake!

There was one user that was constantly creating communities for Japanese cartoons

Fuck me it was like swatting flies, but then I realised I should just block the user!

Ta-dah, no more suspiciously-pseudo-pedo shit cluttering up my “all”

To be honest, “citrussy” just means “We’re not very good at making beer yet so we just chucked hops at it until it was drinkable and called it craft”

They’re the same types that appear in comment threads with contradictory arguments to literally fucking anything -

“We should save the whales”

“Yes but my cousin got splashed by a whale on a boat trip as a toddler and now has a terrible phobia that makes her wheeze whenever she sees one. Do you want that, is that what you want?”

“We should plan walkable cities”

“OH MY GOD SHES IN A WHEELCHAIR TOO DO YOU ONLY EVER THINK ABOUT YOURSELF YOU ABLEIST”

😂

My theory is that they’re just unbelievably bo-o-o-o-oring, humourless people with nothing to add to a conversation but a desperate need for attention

As much as I despise the fat-tongued mockney, Jamie Oliver’s website is the only one I’ve seen that has the ingredients and method on two tabs so you can flick between them

Dunno why they’re not all like that

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