What's that in his hand in the last pane?
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Likely a lead testing kit. I lived in an old house where lead pipes are present. We couldn't drink the water from the house even through a filter.
Thank you!
So Mads Mikkelsen was testing water contamination back in the 70s?
My dude all you have to do is work in customer service for an hour to see the extraordinary brain damage lead caused Boomers and Gen X.
Any minimum wage shmo can tell you about the 1000 yard lead paint stare old people perpetually have.
Or their constant aggression over the most minor inconveniences that they themselves caused.
Or their total and complete lack of spacial and situational awareness.
Etc...
Remember that lead and read rhyme, just as lead and read, but lead and read do not.
Fuck this stupid language.
I refuse to take more refuse!
Genuinely speaking, low level lead poisoning is linked to increased aggression, criminal behavior and lack of empathy. It may be directly tied to the reason we so rarely see serial killers now, but they were relatively prevalent in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. This is at the height of pollution related to leaded gasoline. It might explain Boomer and Xer MAGA conservatives too.
High Physique Low Psyche build
Advancements in mass surveillance and forensics called, they asked why you don't acknowledge them anymore.
They know what they did...
They know what we all do all the time.
It may be directly tied to the reason we so rarely see serial killers now
They are still enough around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_in_the_United_States
serial killers just don't make the news...for fucks make mass school shootings don't even make the news anymore
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Back when paint tasted good!
That 70s scientists hair is spot on. Nice!
Don't forget a good dose of hookworm
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-south-a-bad-name/
wow, a parasite that makes you dumb and tired
found around half the world, affecting millions of people. usually in regions where people are stereotypically dumb... effectively reinforcing the steriotype. aand it can be fixed, it's just not done because half assing is the best we can do with rockefellers and co.
and I've never heard of it before at all
thanks
Hookworm is one of the main reasons vets proscribe things like heart guard to dogs. Puppies that look real bloated often have a hookworm or roundworm infection.
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Yeah, I found it really interesting, especially the bit where you can get it from walking in the sand barefoot
The cure? Believe it or not
!Ivermectin!<
You mean an antiparasitic works on parasites? 
Next you'll be saying Penicillin works on bacterial infections.
Boomers are missing 800,000,000 IQ points as a consequence of lead poisoning.
I’m sure mainlining right wing propaganda for their entire lives didn’t help much either.
I wonder if this collective loss of reasoning skills resulted in any extra wars, as a parallel to the lead-crime hypothesis.
Plus all the DDT boomers inhaled when the government just sprayed it carelessly around everywhere.
Add nice leaded gasoline puffs to that leaded water, and you get big beautiful lead poisoning
Fun fact, basic ethanol works excellent as a fuel additive to reduce knocking, but because it's already a well known compound, fuel companies couldn't patent it as an additive, that's why they invented leaded petrol instead, so they could patent it.
(E: For full completeness, it should probably also be noted that potential legal difficulties surrounding reliably obtaining or producing industrial quantities of Ethanol alcohol in prohibition era America probably also played some role, but the patent thing was definitely the main reason)
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My gawd! This whole situation makes so much more sense to me now.
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