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My dude all you have to do is work in customer service for an hour to see the extraordinary brain damage lead caused Boomers and Gen X.
Any minimum wage shmo can tell you about the 1000 yard lead paint stare old people perpetually have.
Or their constant aggression over the most minor inconveniences that they themselves caused.
Or their total and complete lack of spacial and situational awareness.
Etc...
Remember that lead and read rhyme, just as lead and read, but lead and read do not.
Back when paint tasted good!
Genuinely speaking, low level lead poisoning is linked to increased aggression, criminal behavior and lack of empathy. It may be directly tied to the reason we so rarely see serial killers now, but they were relatively prevalent in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. This is at the height of pollution related to leaded gasoline. It might explain Boomer and Xer MAGA conservatives too.
It may be directly tied to the reason we so rarely see serial killers now
They are still enough around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_in_the_United_States
serial killers just don't make the news...for fucks make mass school shootings don't even make the news anymore
What school shooting hasn't made the news?
How about the one that happened the same day Charlie Kirk was killed?
fair enough, should have said "stay in the news longer than a day"
That 70s scientists hair is spot on. Nice!
Don't forget a good dose of hookworm
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-south-a-bad-name/
The cure? Believe it or not
!Ivermectin!<
You mean an antiparasitic works on parasites? 
Next you'll be saying Penicillin works on bacterial infections.
wow, a parasite that makes you dumb and tired
found around half the world, affecting millions of people. usually in regions where people are stereotypically dumb... effectively reinforcing the steriotype. aand it can be fixed, it's just not done because half assing is the best we can do with rockefellers and co.
and I've never heard of it before at all
thanks
Hookworm is one of the main reasons vets proscribe things like heart guard to dogs. Puppies that look real bloated often have a hookworm or roundworm infection.
Why don't people have heart guard?
People still walk barefoot in the South
Not sure, maybe they assume we monitor our stool more, or regularly see doctors we can't afford.
The medicine they use isn't expensive to mass produce either. Had a coworker in college who's family ran a cow farm, and she told me to stop paying so much for heart guard... As they essentially just adjust dosages by weight of the same product for cows for pennies on the dollar..... Which I wouldconsult a professional before doing, but if it is fine for our pets, and the animals we eat, I can't imagine we couldn't mass produce a cheap alternative for humans as well.
Yeah, I found it really interesting, especially the bit where you can get it from walking in the sand barefoot
fuckin nice😎 new friends
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Boomers are missing 800,000,000 IQ points as a consequence of lead poisoning.
I’m sure mainlining right wing propaganda for their entire lives didn’t help much either.
Plus all the DDT boomers inhaled when the government just sprayed it carelessly around everywhere.
I wonder if this collective loss of reasoning skills resulted in any extra wars, as a parallel to the lead-crime hypothesis.
Add nice leaded gasoline puffs to that leaded water, and you get big beautiful lead poisoning
Fun fact, basic ethanol works excellent as a fuel additive to reduce knocking, but because it's already a well known compound, fuel companies couldn't patent it as an additive, that's why they invented leaded petrol instead, so they could patent it.
(E: For full completeness, it should probably also be noted that potential legal difficulties surrounding reliably obtaining or producing industrial quantities of Ethanol alcohol in prohibition era America probably also played some role, but the patent thing was definitely the main reason)
So how did that work, did every fuel company have a patent for lead additives? Then this means the patents didn't stop any one of them from having these additives, which is the supposed function of patents.
And if any one of them got the exclusive patent, the others could just use ethanol, which didn't happen.
My entire fortune for a web comic that actually is funny.
@Krudler @alorgonkr I dunno, there was some inspired stuff over the years, but over time most artists hit a bit of a wall
