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[–] regulatorg@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What about the radioactive waves that touched my food?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Radiation isn't always the same as radioactivity. Microwaves aren't gonna cause you to mutate (they could boil the water in your body tho) or make your food irradiated. But I'm pretty sure the plastic is still plastic, and if all plastic is bad plastic then maybe we shouldn't use microwaves at all.

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

When it was growing in sunlight, aka red shifted gamma radiation coming from an open nuclear reactor?