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[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 77 points 2 months ago (7 children)

To be totally nitpicky shouldnt this be backwards?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 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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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think this meme would work better in reverse lol

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But I want to be Charizard

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Don't we all.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It's those microplastics on the brain.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

can i see that video too

do i want to tho

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s on the internet somewhere.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

plastic is stored in the balls

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather have some lead in my pencil.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago
[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There's a Teflon generation in there somewhere

[–] ThaMunsta@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure that's just everyone at this point 😬

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 17 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.

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 20 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.

[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.kya.moe 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.

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 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.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Plenty of kids full of lead these days.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago
[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month 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.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks republicans, next stop: Upton Sinclair was a communist and we should leave food safety to the experts: the mega corps.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Elder Millenials and young Gen X can have all 3 if they grew up near a busy highway in a home built before the 1980s.

[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 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

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 6 points 2 months ago

It's how we become immortal.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How is society going to survive when everyone is autistic?

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

If everyone is autistic, then no one is autistic

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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