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A post by Dr. Amy Psy.D. @dramypsyd@ohai.social saying: So I had to stop by Best Buy and the sales guy was going really hard trying to get me to sign up for the credit card. Like I said I didn’t want it and he was like “does YOUR card get you 15% off I don’t think so” and I was like buddy I know they make you push it but please stop and he was like actually they don’t, I just really like the Best Buy credit card. And then he wouldn’t tear my receipt off because he said the chemicals would take away his testosterone. Anyway this is why I shop online.
/thingsthathappened
The first part was super believable but then the obviously fake testosterone thing just makes you question the whole anecdote
yeah, no, uh, i regret to inform ya’ll that toxic bpa receipt paper potentially causing hormone problems thru skin absorbtion is an actual thing and not some weird bs conspiracy theory thing: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bpa-receipts-major-store-chains-study/
it’s unsure how much of an effect it has on humans so far but it does affect lab animals.
Huh TIL… That’s actually kinda funny to me since the tail end of my time working retail happens to be when I first started developing gynecomastia. I’m nonbinary so it never bothered me but I found out shortly after when my doctor was trying to figure out another issue that I’ve got really low T levels so it’s funny to me that there’s technically a remote possibility that working retail caused that whole thing.