Still is, honestly. We still use asbestos in a ton of stuff, but we're just generally a lot more careful about using it fortunately, and not doing as many open-air asbestos shoveling competitions upwind from the schoolyard.
SubArcticTundra 15 points 8 months ago
Somebody still has to mine it though
hovercat 20 points 8 months ago
Sure, I'm not saying it's necessarily a good thing that we're still using it, but recognizing and treating it as a serious carcinogen rather than something benign goes a long way to improving the amount of harm it causes
Duamerthrax 7 points 8 months ago
It's not that hard to make and use PPE for the miners. Whether or not it's enforced is another question, but with how easy asbestos lawsuits seem to be, they probably are.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 7 points 7 months ago
That's what orphans and monkey grinders are for
SubArcticTundra 7 points 7 months ago
Hot take: I think it should be the pensioners that mine asbestos because they're dying soon anyway
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cRazi_man 27 points 8 months ago
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ReginaPhalange 5 points 8 months ago
streak of some really fantastic videos
OP:
THERE'S A VERITASIUM VIDEO ABOUT THE 4 FREEDOMS MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!!!!!
MintyFresh 21 points 8 months ago
I used to know this retired Air Force jet pilot guy. He had an asbestos glove he took. You could put it on and just bury your hand in the bbq coals, hand didn't even get warm. It was like straight up magic.
GargleBlaster 48 points 8 months ago
Jetfuel can't melt asbestos beams
ultrahamster64 37 points 8 months ago
There were the whole MAGAZINE of just asbestos??????
Lost_My_Mind 21 points 8 months ago
Would you believe, that the whole magazine was actually printed on refined asbestos too?
BlackVenom 6 points 8 months ago
The real question is did they stand by their product? What was the magazine printed on? Angryduck.jpg
captainlezbian 21 points 8 months ago
Why are they advertising the mineral asbestos in asbestos magazine? Surely nobody is reading that publication because they're on the fence about the stuff?
azertyfun 10 points 8 months ago
We knew it was bad then too. This is cynical propaganda to try to normalise its use in the face of a mounting public health crisis.
Much like fossil fuel companies today will continuously put out statements and ads and fund studies that either refute their impact or minimizes it. The cigarette industry pioneered this approach which essentially consists in putting just enough doubt and uncertainty into the public discourse to make regulation seem unnecessary overreach, despite overwhelming consensus from the subject matter experts who unlike lobbyists can't just buy their way into getting real estate in magazine stands.
SubArcticTundra 6 points 8 months ago
we couldnt live
Ftfy
Hozerkiller 8 points 8 months ago
That sounds horrible they better get the asbestos out if there quick.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 7 points 7 months ago
mesoTHEleoma
LemmyKnowsBest 7 points 7 months ago
So...is it a good thing, or a bad thing that it took TWO HOURS to evacuate the WTC after the fire alarm went off?
Wait, I think I can answer my own question:
Probably a bad thing that it took so long to evacuate
but
a "good" thing that asbestos 🤦🏼♀️ is fireproof , so the fire didn't consume everything.
LemmyKnowsBest 2 points 8 months ago
Is this real?? Seems to me all throughout the mediathe world trade center twin towers were teased about being destroyed since the day they were built. Like a certain ilk of people already knew for years that this was going to happen, and they took a secret sadistic pleasure in it because it meant [XYZ whatever financial/metaphysical rewards] to them 🤔
LemmyKnowsBest 1 point 7 months ago
But what about the Johnny Bravo one at 1 minute 55 seconds, that one is a blatant prediction.
DrWorm 1 point 7 months ago
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LemmyKnowsBest 1 point 7 months ago
Yeah yeah yeah, movies love blowing up tall buildings, it's nothing new, but I'm talking about the April 2001 Johnny Bravo clip at one minute 55 seconds, the poster on the wall shows a picture of WTC exploding from the top, captioned "COMING SOON."
UnfairUtan 1 point 7 months ago
For the French of lemmy, I recommend this YouTube video to know more about asbestos : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCau3jMu-Wg
MacaqueAndCheese -13 points 8 months ago
My neighbor's didgeridoo teacher hired a monkey gronker for his 9/11 party last year and everyone was pretty offended. Next year I think he'll settle for live music instead.
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It’s kind of wild just how useful asbestos actually was. Aside from the obvious issues, it was genuinely a miracle material that did all sorts of cool things. Too bad our insides hate it more than just about anything else.
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