[effluvium]

I should buy some real cups and quit drinking out of solocups, but then I remember the water mains are plastic and so are pipes in the house.

Then I remember I smoke cigarettes and drink too much and I will likely expire before I'm 70 anyways.

Don't know why I'm putting money into retirement, but then again God is cruel and I'll end up being be old, weak, dumb, and defenseless at 90. With no children to be my advocate, I'd likely end up being a victim of elder abuse. Hope my gluttonous and slothful life helps me avoid the nightmarish nursing homes.

[elric]

Cross-linked polyethylene (the stuff in?water pipes) seems pretty safe. A lot more so than, say, lead pipes. That doesn't seem like the kind of plastic we should worry about, water pipes tend not to end up in oceans.

[bamboozled]

Then I remember I smoke cigarettes and drink too much and I will likely expire before I'm 70 anyways.

With all due respect, you might be a little depressed ?

[actionfromafar]

"Then I remember I'm depressed, smoke cigarettes and drink too much and I will likely expire before I'm 70 anyways."

[i5heu]

I think you are on something [0], but then again, more poison is more bad.

[0] https://www.cuspuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Plastic-Pi...

[naruhodo]

Think on the bright side. Maybe they will drop the bomb and you'll get enough radiation to evolve some super powers.

[euroderf]

Like the ability to directly metabolize plastic waste ? That would be supercool, and tremendously functional. How many gene mutations required ?

[hgyjnbdet]

This made my chuckle.