Post

Or as mad as a Roman Patrician, who drank water supplied by plumbing systems whose pipes were made of… uh, lead. That kind of explains Ancient Rome's fascination with blood sports.

I'm sure this post will age gracefully in 3,000 years time when future civilisations reading through ancient hypertext archives encounter a millennial made of 90% microplastics mocking the Ancient Romans for lead poisoning…

They are clutching their pearls about vaccines while deregulating environmental mercury levels, because the only coherent ideology of the right is accumulating wealth by crushing the people.