I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement

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• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They would huff that shit claiming its so great.

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• Inucune@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  He’d drive a truck fogging asbestos dust out the back

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If there wasn’t such a huge amount of money in remediation, you’d likely still have them now.

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• jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Canada: shifty_eye_puppet.jpg

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• jasoman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It was only banned in 2024

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• JustAThought@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Didn’t they have asbestos shovelling competitions? 1962 Right around the time major studies confirmed the concerns from a decade earlier:

  1960s: Studies, particularly by Dr. Irving Selikoff in the U.S., showed clear links between asbestos exposure and mesothelioma, lung cancer, and other illnesses, prompting greater public health concern.

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• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Absolutely would be, yes

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• edg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There already is lol.

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I beg your pardon?

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• Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I would 100% agree with you with where I live, Alberta Canada.

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• 46_and_2@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  [In Asbest, Russia, Making Asbestos Great Again

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• Kcap@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m personally waiting for the inevitable fight over autonomous vehicles. The only way they truly work to our advantage is if nearly every car is self-driving. I absolutely foresee a “they’re trying to take my Trans-am” resistance, people that will be fighting to the death not to lose the ability to drive their own car.

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ll be one of those people and so will anyone else with the smallest bit of common sense. Autonomous private vehicles will never be viable or safe within my life time.

    Safe autonomous vehicles already exist btw they operate on rails and even those require a driver in case shit goes wrong.

    I’m so fucking sick of tech bros trying to make public transport stupider and more complicated in the name of private profits.

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• tcrpz@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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