kozy138

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[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 137 points 1 month ago (6 children)

As someone who does R&D testing on plastics that are used in medical devices, I have some insight. Of course the type of plastic matters, but all plastics use carcinogenic chemicals during the manufacturing/extrusion process.

To make most plastic, a polymer resin is mixed with additives such as solvents, plasticizers, and stabilizers at high temperatures. Ideally, you want the additives to evaporate out during production so that you're left with just the newly formed plastic.

But some of these additives get trapped in tiny air pockets between polymer chains. When they're reheated, the polymer chains relax and release the volatile, carcinogenic additives into the air.

This is likely where the toxicity is coming from, not the polymer chain itself. So regardless of the type of plastic used, reheating the polymer during 3D printing will release some volatile additives.

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Enshitification Intensification®

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The fact that the remote/rural bus stops aren't being used is not a fault of public transportation itself. But rather, it's the fault of route design/planning.

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They also like his "Christian values"... AKA banning abortion

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Killing them for fuel is too humane a punishment. We should put them in a hamster wheel instead.

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago

At least they're working on the wall part lol

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Seems about right. Profit over people, right?....

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

4-5 year prison sentence for planning a roadblock... I've seen child sex offenders get smaller sentences.

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic.

It's like Cities: Skylines mixed with Factorio.

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 21 points 4 months ago

I mean... that's not that new. And most people are just lurkers anyways.

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

I wish I could upvote this twice lol

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

*Fossil fuel infrastructure goes vroom

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