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@alice @deviantollam Can I pay extra for a rainbow anodized set?

Anyway. Looking around at the world today, I sometimes wonder if there's some substance we started introducing into our environment 20 or 30 years ago that causes brains to develop without empathy. Maybe fifty years from now, the chemists will be saying Oh my god, how could they have been so stupid as to use [substance] where kids could breathe it, drink it, play on it?

This thread might be about microplastics.

If you ask social scientists about this theory they harrumph about how there isn't one single neat cause for crime. If you ask chemists, they say Oh my god, yes leaded gasoline obviously did that, how could we have been so stupid?

There's a theory that leaded gasoline caused increased crime in the mid-20th century, by affecting childhood brain development. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis

You don't have to believe the theory to admit that it's worth discussing. The correlation is pretty strong - the crime rate graph closely tracks the lead exposure graph, but delayed by about 20 years.

@thomasfuchs This is a plot diagram of the movie Looper. It did not end well for Timn.

@jwz I went to pay my credit card yesterday, using the BofA app to transfer from a BofA checking account to the BofA credit card account. The BofA app didn't understand that the BofA credit card account was with BofA. From now on I will be blaming these sudden stupidities on vibe coding.

@mwichary Leader of the Deceptifonts

@snowcrashmike @catsalad Differently plasmosed