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[–] 26 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

doesn't lead toxicity cause aggressive behavior? Seems like a pretty bad mix. Almost like you could hypothesize a correlation between our current political climate and lead exposure.

Wouldn't it be crazy if we could solve a big chunk of our political issues by just banning lead in stuff?

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  • [–] 1 point 45 minutes ago

    Well, problem is that it's more of a slow time release thing with lead in the brain. We're still dealing with the fallout from lead in paint and water pipes that were banned decades ago but it takes a while for the lead to leech into the brain, so they don't tend to get dumber and more aggressive until later in life. So the people touching lead ammo will probably get worse as they age. Of course there could already be significant overlap with the lead paint and lead ammo people. In which case they're probably just fucked.

    So it might help, but it will take a lot longer than we'd like.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago

    There are lead warnings on every box and every safety manual but you just can't fix stupid.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago (1 child)

    Sounds like a self-correcting problem

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  • [–] 1 point 25 minutes ago*

    It's not though. These people take their weapons home and hang up their coat or sweater in the same closet their kids' jackets hang in, they go sit down in the family lounge and get lead dust on the furniture, then they go to the fridge, getting lead dust on the fridge door handle and surfaces they prep food on...
    ...you get the idea I'm sure.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 hours ago

    So that's why red state MAGAs seem like they're brain damaged.

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  • [–] 37 points 7 hours ago (10 children)

    I'm not surprised. People don't even wash their hands after using the rest room.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago (6 children)

    Oh shit. Is that why my eye is read?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

    Jesus. Look through my post history and it will all make sense.

    I gotta stop posting here first thing in the morning -_-

    I said in one of my posts something like "this is house my cat sits"

    How. The word was how. I said house. I made her a house sitting. And now my eye is a reader.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    Adhd? "this is how... Sits". I bet your brain sent the command to type "my cat" but made a a cogntivie connection to house sitting based on the sound of your head voice is it tried to generate the sentence faster than you could type. Like it already voiced out to "sits" while your finger were still on "Ho". Idk, I catch a similar mistake weekly. Usually more like typing a homophone or like my fingers just start trying to sound out the word they thought they heard as my head voice has raced ahead.

    I'd love to learn more about how communication works in our brains and how it varies between modes. I could see fingers and voice being the same part, but does hearing route a different way? How similarly does the head voice work?

    Then, there's the part where something like 10 or 20% of the population doesn't even have a hear voice. And from there, those with the strongest head voice make micro movements of their vocal chords when thinking, while those with no voice make no movements at all.

    Fucking la gauge, how does it work

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  • [–] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Yes, well, gun owners are a special kind of stupid.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 hours ago

    I don't know man. I hunt and like to have some way of protecting myself in increasingly hostile times here in America. I know I'm not the smartest rocket in the tool box but you're dismissing a lot of valid reasons for gun ownership and people.

    All the libs and lefties I shoot with know about d-lead wipes and proper firearms hyegene and safety.

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  • [–] 42 points 12 hours ago (12 children)

    Since a few people in the thread seem to think lead ammunition is illegal in the US, it’s not. It’s only illegal for shooting waterfowl nationwide, and entirely banned in the state of California.

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