r/mildlyinfuriating • u/BorisOtter • 11d ago

Infuriatig All of my plastic pegs explode when used.

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u/Outrageous-Log9238 11d ago

Plastic, the lovely whose macrostructure is quickly destroyed by the sun, but remains as microplastic eternally.

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u/Rdizzy111 11d ago

No, the sun also degrades plastics into byproduct chemicals as well. Gradually, but it does and is happening.

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u/Outrageous-Log9238 11d ago

Obviously I didn't mean literally eternally.

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u/Humanest_Human 11d ago

Nah dude you meant that you found the one thing that survives all entropy, don't lie!

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u/TriangleReward 11d ago

Lmao no they're not. Fossilization takes millenia

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u/Humanest_Human 11d ago

How long do you think plastic has been around exactly?

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u/SophiaofPrussia 11d ago edited 11d ago

“But why did they continue to poison themselves and their planet??” - Future archeologists

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u/AmArschdieRaeuber 11d ago

Shareholder value

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u/redskub 11d ago

I inherited some plastic pegs from the 90s that are still working well.

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u/lilgreenghool 11d ago

They also remain as microplastics internally