• @Etterra
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    2110 months ago

    Realistically what it means is that millions of people will react with “meh, still gonna use it.” I mean, have you met humans? We knew lead was toxic since at least the Roman era, but that didn’t stop us from using it in everything - including food and drink.

    • @FlowVoid
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      10 months ago

      The difference is that you can completely avoid lead poisoning if you eliminate exposure to lead, but you can’t completely avoid cancer even if you eliminate exposure to carcinogens.

      And eliminating exposure to aspartame would have only a minimal effect, at best, on your overall risk of cancer.

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      910 months ago

      And they’ll do that while standing in bright sunlight without sunscreen, drinking beer, eating red meat, processed food, candy with real sugar and driving in fossil fuel cars which are in the same or higher category of cancer risks.

      • @FlowVoid
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        110 months ago

        Don’t forget cell phones, which are in the same risk category as aspartame.

      • @[email protected]
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        -610 months ago

        candy tastes good, beer gives me a warm fuzzy feeling, and i ain’t paying 10x more money for a car just so i get to spend 10 hours a week at some charging station so my tablet with wheels can go whirrrr.

        • @RGB3x3
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          110 months ago

          Are you somehow defending leaded gasoline?

            • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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              210 months ago

              Unfortunately, there is actually. Aviation fuels, even “low-lead” variants still use lead. Virtually all small propeller aircraft use leaded gas.

              • @[email protected]
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                110 months ago

                well, i never said i fly. and with lithium being the “best” battery technology, electric planes would be a little heavy.