Cooking with any plastic is a dubious enterprise, because heat encourages potentially harmful plastic compounds to migrate out of the polymers and potentially into the food. But, as Andrew Turner, a biochemist at the University of Plymouth recently told me, black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid.

In 2018, Turner published one of the earliest papers positing that black plastic products were likely regularly being made from recycled electronic waste. The clue was the plastic’s concerning levels of flame retardants. In some cases, the mix of chemicals matched the profile of those commonly found in computer and television housing, many of which are treated with flame retardants to prevent them from catching fire.

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      Whaaaaat the fuck?

      I had no fucking idea of this. I’ve been seen “removed” used more and more on the last months and I just thought people speak weird online nowadays.

      My lemmy.lm instance has been censoring content that I see without me knowing it?

      Fuck this shit, I’m going to look for another instance right now. One that treats me like an adult who wants to see what other people type so I can decide MYSELF if someone is an asshole for using certain language

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      This is the way that Lemmy as a whole has filtered words implemented, just not every instance filters the same words (or at all in some cases?)

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        No, it is not how Lemmy as a whole has filtered words or it would be filtered everywhere.

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          It is the method by which it is filtered, but not the list by which it’s filtered