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• otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Somebody still has to mine it though

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Veritasium has a good video on it.

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• GargleBlaster@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jetfuel can’t melt asbestos beams

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sure can weaken them though

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    • HyonoKo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes and office fires can too

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• ultrahamster64@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There were the whole MAGAZINE of just asbestos???

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Would you believe, that the whole magazine was actually printed on refined asbestos too?

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      n-no?

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  • Photonic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They were just trying to market the stuff asbestos they could

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dad? Where are you?

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  • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The real question is did they stand by their product? What was the magazine printed on? Angryduck.jpg

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Redstone1@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “we couldnt live the way we do without it”

  😆 if only

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    we couldnt live

    Ftfy

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• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  a “good” thing that asbestos 🤦🏼‍♀️ is fireproof , so the fire didn’t consume everything.

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• Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That sounds horrible they better get the asbestos out if there quick.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  mesoTHEleoma

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• MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You try too hard.

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• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • DrWorm@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    None of those are predictions, and high profile buildings are destroyed all the time in media

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But what about the Johnny Bravo one at 1 minute 55 seconds, that one is a blatant prediction.

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• UnfairUtan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For the French of lemmy, I recommend this YouTube video to know more about asbestos : www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCau3jMu-Wg

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