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[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 69 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Bad news: Todays needles are coated in PFAS to make punctions more painless.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As someone who takes a weekly shot, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME 😭

Uuugh I don’t want to switch to daily gel or patches, it’s such a pain in the ass.

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately no. Afaik even regular exposition is (for now) considered relatively harmless, with medical professionals bearing the highest risk.

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian hackers pwn your webapp.

πŸ˜‚

Wow, that was glorious!

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I thought the injection would be the one that is a pain in the ass πŸ€”

[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's kinda misleading though. Large molecule PFAS are harmless to us (Teflon for example). It's the small molecule PFAS are dangerous and those aren't really used for any kind of non-stick surfaces.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're part of the waste of producing non-stick coatings. So you aren't exposed to them by the needle or your Teflon frying pan or the Teflon tape in your plumbing, you're exposed to them by the Teflon plant dumping their waste in the river, legally or otherwise

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which kinda PFAS do they use for hydrophobic coatings

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Apparently the small ones.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I've never really looked into this, do you have any good sources you recommend looking at?

[–] ronigami@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

whose fucking goddamn idea was that