I've got my ghillie suit and hill top sniper spot already picked out. 1 road in 1 road out. The ******* Cubans won't know what hit 'em, it's not like they've got helicopters and such. ...wait: 51 Minutes? WTF?
They get some of them but not all, but also consider: the inline refrigerator water systems are.... <drumroll... cymbal crash> largely made of plastics. Agree with @Haymitch in giving in to our plastic overlords and our yummy plastic infused bodies.
That's a good question. I can't remember if she covered that. Seems like well water should be ok, and seems like it would definitely be better than normal city plumbing. But I don't remember that being brought up specifically.
Microplastics are more than just bottled water. If you store leftovers in plastic dishes and warm them up later in the same dish, enjoy your leftovers with a little infused plastic. I recently bought some glass containers that seal really well out of paranoia but I drink Bai, Body Armor, Vitamin water, Simply Juice etc daily and they are all in plastic containers. I don't like the powder drinks and I don't like carbonation so I'm kind of limited. Also worried about fruits and vegetables where you eat the skin. Yeah I wash them but I still wonder if it's still there. And strawberries - are you really getting in the crevasses where all the poisons collected? I don't trust organic though I do think it's slightly better. IDK... But I'm turning 65 soon and I was one of those idiot kids running behind the mosquito spraying trucks with my friends and so far we're all still here. I guess it's true that what doesn't kill you make you stronger.
Ideally we’d have clean public water we could drink out of our sinks but the U.S. is infrastructure wise a third world country with tiered access to luxuries like that.
Glad you're on top of it. So many people your age have never even tried, or have given up. My recommendation is to zoom out a little, there's diminishing returns for your time if you're getting too granular. I'd rather make a 90 overall than an A+ in health category A-C and fail the rest. Since there's always a non-zero chance of getting something terrible, it's best to just narrow down your chances as much as possible while keeping your quality of life (which will improve since you're focused on health anyway).
You absolutely want your well pipes in new plastic...if they're not they're in old rusty-ass metal. Same with the pipes from the well to the house. Here's some pics! https://www.google.com/search?q=old...AgCgAgCYAwCIBgGSBwCgB44C&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
Sure potential well water, but unless you are piping into your house using something other than PVC, it’s all going to have microplastics. It’s ubiquitous, completely unavoidable. The key is mitigating the damage. Drinking city tap water is also really bad. Go ahead and sample your tap water and send it to a lab and see what comes back. There are alkaline water stores that will sell you the water by the gallon (in plastic containers! Yay!), but I think that water probably gets exposed to a little less plastic than plastic bottles, bc the plastic in large jugs is much hardier and less prone seap into the water. And then refill your water in metal water bottles. It’s still unavoidable though. Also, the science on alkaline water doesn’t really make any sense whatsoever if you have a college freshman level understanding of biochemistry, but I do seem to feel a bit better when I drink it so whatever. It’s also cheaper than buying bottles from the store. TLDR, no matter how clever you think you are, you aren’t avoiding plastic in your water. It’s a matter of dose.
Exactly…let me filter out that plastic with…plastic! Also, unless your refrigerator has an industrial, science grade filter on there, it’s only filtering out a percentage. I wouldn’t even say most.
Great points, although that mosquito truck dumping pyrethoids in your face did no favors to your nervous system or your longevity. On second thought, if you’re in your 60s, that mosquito truck almost certainly was using a potent cocktail of organophosphates. The good stuff. Kills nervous systems indiscriminate of species
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body One of the team behind the letter was blunt. “The brain microplastic paper is a joke,” said Dr Dušan Materić, at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. “Fat is known to make false-positives for polyethylene. The brain has [approximately] 60% fat.” Materić and his colleagues suggested rising obesity levels could be an alternative explanation for the trend reported in the study. Materić said: “That paper is really bad, and it is very explainable why it is wrong.” He thinks there are serious doubts over “more than half of the very high impact papers” reporting microplastics in biological tissue. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/13/microplastics-human-body-doubt
I love the spelling of the word learnt. The orthographic landscape of the English language is often a battlefield between the rigid structures of tradition and the encroaching tide of phonetic simplification. Nowhere is this more apparent, nor more deeply significant to the discerning philologist, than in the divergent evolution of the past participle of the verb "to learn." While the North American preference has long skewed toward the dissyllabic "learned," it is the opinion of this treatise that the monosyllabic, dental-suffix variant "learnt" represents a superior marriage of historical continuity and phonetic efficiency. The Case for Phonetic Honesty One must first address the sheer auditory logic of the suffix. In the natural flow of English speech, the final consonant of the word "learn" is a voiced alveolar nasal. When we transition into a past tense marker, the vocal cords naturally prefer a sharp, clipped finish when expressing a completed action. To utilize the "ed" suffix—which suggests a soft "d" sound or, in some archaic contexts, a full extra syllable—is to invite a certain linguistic laziness. "Learnt," with its crisp, definitive "t," acts as a phonetic full stop. It provides a staccato finality that "learned" lacks. The "t" variant honors the way the word actually meets the air in a standard conversation. By spelling it as "learnt," we bridge the gap between the written symbol and the spoken reality, reducing the cognitive load required to translate the visual character into its acoustic counterpart. Semantic Distinction and Utility Perhaps the most compelling argument for "learnt" lies in the preservation of semantic clarity. In the English language, we often struggle with words that serve multiple grammatical functions; "learned" is a prime offender. Consider the following: The Adjective: A "learn-ed" (pronounced lur-ned) professor. The Verb: He "learned" (pronounced lurnd) the lesson. By insisting on "learned" for both roles, we create an unnecessary orthographic overlap. By adopting "learnt" for the verbal action, we allow for a clean, visual distinction. "Learnt" becomes the action—the process of acquisition—while "learned" is reserved for the state of being scholarly. This distinction is not merely a pedantic preference; it is a functional tool for the reader to navigate the nuances of a sentence without relying solely on context clues. Historical Lineage and the Dental Suffix From a historical perspective, the dental suffix "t" is not a modern corruption but a venerable tradition. It aligns "learn" with a specific class of irregular verbs that have resisted the "ed" homogenization of the 19th and 20th centuries—words like burnt, dreamt, knelt, and spilt. To favor "learned" is to succumb to the "weak verb" standardization that has robbed English of its rugged, Germanic texture. "Learnt" feels older because it is rooted in a time when the language was more tactile. There is a certain structural integrity to the "t" that feels more "hand-crafted" than the mass-produced "ed" which has been applied indiscriminately to the vast majority of our lexicon. Conclusion In summary, while the "ed" variant may satisfy the requirements of a standardized, simplified curriculum, it fails to capture the phonetic essence, the semantic utility, and the historical richness of the language. "Learnt" is shorter, faster to type, more accurate to the ear, and provides a necessary distinction from its adjective cousin. It is the choice of the efficient writer and the thoughtful speaker alike. Now, who wants to discuss the proper pronunciation of the word fungi?!?
