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[–] tdawg 78 points 1 week ago (7 children)

To be totally nitpicky shouldnt this be backwards?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Asbestos and lead are too dense, thus preventing flight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] tdawg 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pokemon "evolution" is more like irl metamorphosis

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Sure, I'm just saying that's why I imagine, they put it this way around. I do agree that it's weird. You'd expect grandpa to be level 70, so he definitely shouldn't be a baby dino anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The asbestos and lead eras overlapped so your dad was giga fucked

[–] jaybone 5 points 1 week ago

And even old people have the microplastics. Isn’t it they can’t do a study with a control group because every single living person has the microplastics?

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think this meme would work better in reverse lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But I want to be Charizard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Don't we all.

[–] Dozzi92 4 points 1 week ago

It's those microplastics on the brain.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Serinus 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Noodle07 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

plastic is stored in the balls

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd rather have some lead in my pencil.

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[–] JusticeForPorygon 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There's a Teflon generation in there somewhere

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure that's just everyone at this point 😬

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] InputZero 17 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Microplastics and studies on the effects of it on the human body are too recent to say much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week 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 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] _stranger_ 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Plenty of kids full of lead these days.

[–] return2ozma 11 points 1 week ago
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[–] levzzz 7 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It's how we become immortal.

[–] Shardikprime 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How is society going to survive when everyone is autistic?

[–] Passerby6497 9 points 1 week ago

If everyone is autistic, then no one is autistic

[–] Shardikprime 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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?

[–] feedum_sneedson 1 points 1 week ago

NEVERTHELESS

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