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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fun fact, the average adult brain also has a credit cards worth of plastic inside. So that bacon has some company!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you joking?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sadly, no. About 0.5% of our brain mass is microplastics.

https://pirg.org/articles/new-research-finds-plastic-in-human-brains/

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Additionally, the average brain is about 1300 grams. 0.5% of 1300 is 6.5 grams, and plastic credit cards weigh roughly 5 grams.

0.5% is really hard for me to visualize. A credit card in everyone's brain is unfortunately easy.....

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

CARD DECLINED

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Once I put my head up to the EFTPOS machine and the payment actually went through

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

EFTPOS is the fastest payment system in the world for identifying Australians on the internet. If you need to camouflage, you can use "card reader" instead. I don't know when you'd need to camouflage like that, but these are interesting times.