But you can't beat the convenience

What can I do about it? Romans could use pots made of other metals or materials, but whatever I use I'm going to get microplastics anyway. It would require a systemic change.

My actual view on this.
- At least it's not asbestos
- Me too. This is mainly my view on climate change as well since I've done what I can, but I still get confronted with terrible news and imagery.
Even a systemic change wouldn't do that much, plastic doesn't break down into other things, it only separates into smaller pieces.
Even if we stopped using all plastic right now, the plastic that is already in the environment would still enter the food chain and accumulate in the top of it.
- Does that mean we shouldn’t do anything at all? C’mon, try a little.
- Does that mean I'll be safer if I eat things nearer the bottom of the food chain, like plants?
- Not every plastic is as damaging. If it is biodegradable, it will not accumulate at all.
Their water pipes were made of lead too though. That's your systemic change right there.
- So are ours. There's a LOT of lead pipes carrying drinking water in the United States.

Take a look at this fan from the first half of the 20th century:

Note that it has a guard which protects the blades in case the fan falls over. However, the guard does not protect a person from accidentally sticking his fingers in the blades. Why not? It's not exactly complicated, it would have taken just a little more wire, and I'm sure people back then didn't enjoy having their fingers struck by metal blades any more than we would now.

People can be weird about safety...

Rules for safety are often times written in blood.
In college I bought a fan like this on a garage sale because I liked the look and it actually worked. I called it Mr. Fingersnaps and every time I ran it it was very loud and smelled bad.
My mother almost cut her finger off on one of these fans when I was a kid. She needed a lot of stitches.

Hell yeah fuck the Romans. We know we're poisoning ourselves that's a huge distinction. We're dumb in a different way

Nah the Romans were definitely aware of the danger of lead, they just really loved their defrutum

0.5% plastic, wtf? isnt brain blood barrier selective enough to filter microplastics?

Clearly not.
- I mean BBB filter threshold is anywhere from 2.3 to 50 nm depending on pressure. Even though microplastics can get down to 1nm that is like an outlier. So in a situation where virtually almost all of microplastics must be filtered out, how does one get such a huge percentage as 0.1%?
Scientists say no plastic is truly microwave safe. Maybe we eat it?
- It can't help that so much of our food is packaged in plastic to keep water in or out.

Fuck convenience, return to Stone age, I'm making everything out of rock!! Ooga booga mada faka /hj

Wait until they tell you about micro rocks, rock brain!

Nice picture, but you should keep you brain cleaner.