Does it really matter?

Welcome To Infinity. Enjoy Your Stay. 28. Boston

[miniaturecatmentality]

guys I just found the greatest video on the internet

[slender-woman-returns]

What did I watch

[hollanderthoughts]

I want to be heard (doesn’t speak) I want to be understood (doesn’t explain) I want to be seen (acts like if a missing person was right in front of everybody)

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[gheckoe]

both the graphic’s title and delicatefury’s comment are misleading.

quote from the sciencedaily article linked above (emphasis mine):

“The researchers emphasize that this does not mean microplastics are not a real problem.

“We may be overestimating microplastics, but there should be none,” said McNeil, senior author of the study and U-M professor of chemistry, macromolecular science and engineering, and the Program in the Environment. “There’s still a lot out there, and that’s the problem.”

Clough added, “As microplastic researchers looking for microplastics in the environment, we’re searching for the needle in the haystack, but there really shouldn’t be a needle to begin with.“”

the gloves are not “the” source (they are the source of stearates, which are mistaken for microplastics) and microplastics still exist in the world (they’re not just stearates in sterile labs getting misidentified as a problem that doesn’t exist), just at a way smaller magnitude than previously thought. this is good news, but microplastics are not a non-issue.

[creekfiend]

oh absolutely. i thought it was implied that this didn’t mean that microplastics were not a problem at all, just that we actually don’t have accurate information about the scale, due to the glove situation. never hurts to be clear though.

[theweight]

this orange was pregnant. Isn’t the world amazing

[tgirl-thucydides]

[antonio-m]

"The Sculptor", c.1964 by John Koch (1909-1978). American painter and teacher. Brooklyn Museum, NY. oil on canvas

[myspace]

The question remains:

Did they not have the budget to put a ball in the movie?

[txttletale]

and on the pedestal, these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias--hope you're enjoying my kickass sculpture of two vast and trunkless legs of stone and a shattered visage! I built it in this desert to prove an important point about Society

[fangorn-forest]

summer sufferers poll: would you rather have…

the ability to repel all bugs so they can’t touch/bite/sting you

the ability to always be at a comfortable temperature while outside

no chafing ever again

Remaining time: 4 days 23 hours

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

every child should have a specific stuffed animal/toy that they develop an antagonistic relationship with

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

some of my most significant core memories involved getting into heated arguments with the furby who lived in my closet. essential component of my pre-teen character development. necessary anguish

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

sometimes small children will inflict years of torment & waterboarding on their victims before burying them in an unmarked concrete grave, that's just part of growing up

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the post that keeps on giving (via @zenyeetaa):

#okay we weren’t children when we did this but me and some old roommates kept a baby doll in the freezer #at first it was to jump scare the next person who opened the freezer #but he was in there for a few months and then when we decided it was time to pull it out a bunch of fires broke out across our county #so we put him back in the freezer. we named him chippy and drew a mustache on his face #we tried pulling him out of the freezer a few times after that but some horrible event would happen every time without fail #when we moved apartments we had a special cooler to bring chippy with us #as far as i know chippy is still in a freezer somewhere

[nerdreamer]

[samwisefamgee]

[etaka]

[aromancy]

[natalieironside]

No this is book accurate

[cantabilechaos]

I like when cats are like busy doing something and not really in the mood to be pet so they like walk past you at exactly the right distance to be just barely out of reach and if you lean forward they very slightly increase their pace to avoid getting caught in the affection zone. Like oh sorry sir I didn’t realize you were in the middle of important business. We can reschedule this for another time

[imperhius]

[sasha-on-the-side]

Been talking about this with friends so I present to you, the cursed spectrum of media literacy

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[krippe90]

[charl0ttan]

why does kitchen nightmares always feel like gordon ramsay is just this a random encounter off the street rsther than something the restaurant deliberately signed up for

[phyllisdietrichsonswig]