Comment on Jazz hands

hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It seems believable given the story of the “Radium Girls”, workers who painted radioactive paint on watch dials to make them glow. They’d lick the tips of the brushes when they got too frayed… which eventually led to cancer.

  www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/style/…/index.html#:~:text….

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  • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whoa. Eating radioactive material isn’t great at all.

    From a different time, too: An X-Ray shoe fitter

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A department store still had one of these when I was a kid, but it wasn’t used. It was, however, in occasional use when my brother was very little in the early 80s. My mom has pictures of him with his foot in it.

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    • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks, woke.

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They want to cancel bananas now.

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair, the factory management knew that it was dangerous but didn’t tell the workers and encouraged them to lick the brush.

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• Arbiter@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sadly??

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• tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Phew.

  I came to the comments for this hope.

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