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.
You could be entitled for compensation
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otacon239@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
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.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You can not make automotive breaks without it.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Somebody still has to mine it though
cRazi_man@europe.pub 7 hours ago
otacon239@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Haha yeah. That’s where I recently learned about it myself. They’ve been on a hot streak of some really fantastic videos as of late.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 6 hours 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.
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
Medieval kings used to do party tricks where they’d throw their (asbestos) tablecloth into the fire to impress their guests, and then have pulled out and relaid on the table
GargleBlaster@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Jetfuel can’t melt asbestos beams
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Sure can weaken them though
HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Yes and office fires can too
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
That sounds horrible they better get the asbestos out if there quick.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 hours 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@sh.itjust.works 3 hours 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.
ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
There were the whole MAGAZINE of just asbestos???
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Would you believe, that the whole magazine was actually printed on refined asbestos too?
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
n-no?
Photonic@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
They were just trying to market the stuff asbestos they could
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The real question is did they stand by their product? What was the magazine printed on? Angryduck.jpg
Redstone1@lemmings.world 7 hours ago
“we couldnt live the way we do without it”
😆 if only
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
we couldnt live
Ftfy
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 7 hours 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.
snooggums@piefed.world 3 hours ago
You try too hard.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 36 minutes 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.