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[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The amount of micro-plastics in everyone's blood - even in tiny remote villages that have had next to no contact with the outside world - might make human beings look like an attractive meal to them? Surely nothing bad could happen if instead of micro-plastics we all have fungus in our blood?

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Human beings already look like an attractive meal to all kinds of bacteria and virus

[–] LostXOR@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, that's what our immune system is for.