Whats ruzzia’s position on asbestos?
I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement
Submitted 1 year ago by philz@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Most asbestos is made in Russia currently so definitely
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
They would huff that shit claiming its so great.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Absolutely would be, yes
SouthFresh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Don’t Tread on Mesothelioma”
davetapley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Until lemmy gold is a thing please have these medals, I wish I could offer more: 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅
parody@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 year ago
popcap200@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Wasn’t Trump literally trying to bring it back last time?
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 1 year ago
The use of asbestos in the US was only banned in 2024.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
LOL. Imagine seeing asbestos truthers coughing on their deathbed swearing that it’s completely harmless and that there’s a global conspiracy against it.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I mean, we can probably just find/replace asbestos for Covid - it will be the same people making the same crazy claim.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Many crazy ideas seem to go hand in hand. If you’re into flat earth nonsense, there’s a pretty good chance you also oppose vaccines, drink colloidal silver and believe in intergalactic lizards.
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
They are probably coughing because of the
cigarettescar exhaust fumesair pollutiongoddamn libs
eric5949@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Would be? My guy there is lol, just not huge.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
I need my full lead gasoline
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 year ago
At least using asbestos has some value. If we had not found alternatives we would still be using it. One reason measures were taken to improve safety in manufacturing rather than just banning from the get go was lack of alternatives. What im trying to say is pro-asbestos is not as coocoo crazy as anti vax and such.
Rogue@feddit.uk 1 year ago
We do have alternatives to vaccines though:
You simply ban abortion and sex education which increases the birth rate and therefore it doesn’t matter that a few babies die because of preventable conditions.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Damn, take my vote in any presidental election.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s still pretty bonkers to know something will kill you if you use it, and we just ignore all the scien e.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That would be tobacco.
Asbestos is not dangerous when it is in a solid form and left alone, which is the vast majority of the use cases. It becomes dangerous when it is damaged, since that lets the fibers into the air. That is why in residential areas we leave it alone, but if it needs to be removed then hazmat type safety equipment is required. We leave it alone, which is the normal use, because removing it is the unsafe situation.
Asbestos should be banned for anything other than extremely well regulated industrial situations that may need it like any other hazardous material.
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I’m full of microplastics but I keep buying food and drink packaged in plastic _(--)/
Sometimes there’s just no realistic alternative. As nice as it would be to only buy fresh, unpacked food I don’t have the time, money or energy to deal with that
SolidShake@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Depends who would ban it. From my life experience, we have one side that definitely would because they get mad at anything the other side. ANYTHING. While the other side is typically more rational and has critical thinking skills.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have heard that Obama supports breathing.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I also heard Obama supports Trump, so if you like Trump it means you like Obama and that makes u a dumb librul. Checkmate, everyone.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I heard Obama and Biden are anti mask and anti universal healthcare now.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Are you talking about liberals being dumb?
/s
Wiz@midwest.social 1 year ago
Yeah, dumb liberals with their dumb vaccines and pasteurized milk and fluoridated water and science. 🙄
lowleekun@ani.social 1 year ago
Thats however what everybody thinks about themselves
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A lot of those people are correct.
remon@ani.social 1 year ago
TIN@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Satire article? Please tell me that’s a satire article?
remon@ani.social 1 year ago
Oh lol, it actually is. That wasn’t intended.
trigg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MortUS@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As always, Simpsons did it…
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Asbestos must have seemed like a fucking miracle material. Suddenly, our tinderbox world was fireproof. You can build bricks, lightweight cladding, roofing and fences for houses, car parts, curtains, electrical switchboards and protective clothing out of it without the incessant fear of a house fire. It wasn’t synthetic or petroleum based, you could just dig it out of the ground. Yeah it would absolutely have supporters. They would be dumb, but they would exist.
I remember my dad being angry that they were phasing out leaded petrol and he had to buy a seperate additive to put in the Datsun fuel.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Still used in a lot of fireproof applications. Lab tables you see in chemistry and biology classrooms are a good example, most of those are made out of asbestos. Really, as long as it’s well bonded and handled appropriately, it’s perfectly safe. It’s just costly to do so, and greedy companies don’t care if their lax standards cause cancer 20 years later, so it really can’t be trusted in the hands of private businesses.
Reasonable_Guy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Most lab tops today are not asbestos based. There’s plenty of 40 plus year old ones still around that are and as long as you don’t break them they’re perfectly fine. But newer tops are all either epoxy or phenolic resin based.