It was done under Biden’s term.
Trump unbanning it out of petty childishness in 3…2…1…
To prove it’s safe, he will have… Don Jr do a line in a live conference.
I might be mistaken but wasn’t the asbestos ban lifted by Trump in his first term and Biden just reinstalled the ban?
Not pettyness, his daddy putin is the biggest exporter.
Trump has touted to bring it back many times. Take a guess who the biggest exporter is… Russia :/
Literally a joke from the Simpsons. Bart runs for class president and proclaims “We want more asbestos!”
On 25 June 2018, a Russian mining company named Uralasbest, which is one of the world’s largest producers of asbestos, posted a message of support for President Trump on their official Facebook and VK (a Russian version of Facebook) pages. The post included photographs of packed asbestos material adorned with the face of Trump and the text "Approved by Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-asbestos-trump_face/
At this point the only people who seem to think he isn’t a Russian asset are the ones in Congress. Personally I would love Congress to finally just start calling him out on all his constant bull shit. Which they have started, but it needs to be ramped up considerably. There is so much material, if the Republicans were in the Democrats shoes they would never stop screaming about all this crap, yet for the first they wouldn’t need to lie.
Until someone that owns an asbestos mine buys one of those trump gold cards…
Reminds me of Kingdom of Loathing. They tried to make a joke out of getting materials from mines in the game that aren’t mined, like linoleum (which is made from linseed oil). You go to a mine and get “linoleum ore” in the game. Or asbestos ore. Because they didn’t know that asbestos is actually a mineral that is mined.
Very good and very silly game.
Fight a rushing bum in the sleazy back alley, and they drop bum cheeks when defeated. This is a hat that offers a small amount of armor and slight stench resistance. Get two of them and meatpaste them together and it forms an ass hat, which offers a little more armor and slight sleaze damage in addition to stench resistance.
I love that fucking game.
I once helped someone get a Hodgman’s Imaginary Hamster and in return he gifted me a few IRL pot plants (Super Lemon Haze, a damn good strain) that I used to pull myself and my Dad out of a pit.
Game inadvertently saved our lives, and I still haven’t gotten to thank John Hodgman.
(Yes, the game is that insane and silly. Getting that damn hamster requires at least 10 people working together.)
Lol you fucking what? John Hodgman did what? I’m so confused lol. I can’t tell if you’re talking about a video game or real life.
John Hodgman wrote the book The Areas of My Expertise, which has a list of hobo names for some bizarre reason.
Kingdom of Loathing, in making a multi-player clan hobo dungeon, used that list of names as a random hobo name generator, and then named the boss of the whole place Hodgman, the Hoboverlord.
I went to a standup show where Hodgman was supposed to do a set and he had cancelled, replaced with Brian Posehn. Brian was also awesome but I really wanted to tell John Hodgman how he inadvertently saved my life.
Now the details of how you get that specific item are even weirder but I’m done phone typing.
Oh nice. Cool story.
I had that Hodgman book, and I remember all the stuff about hobos lol… I was pretty young at the time, and couldn’t tell if the stuff he wrote about “the hobo code” and “hobo nickels” was real. I thought it was satire… But I’m pretty sure it was all true lol.
omg. turns out there something called an asbestos bankruptcy trust that companies use to get out of paying people injured by asbestos exposure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos_bankruptcy_trusts?wprov=sfla1
“The largest 26 of these trusts paid about 2.4 million claims totaling about $10.9 billion up to 2008.”
Sounds like they were made to pay people. The companies are bankrupt…the trusts ensure funds are available to pay people despite the companies being insolvent.
the trusts pay pennies to the dollar…
Instead of literally nothing.
Don’t worry, not for long.
Ha! My first thought too. Gotta Make America Cancer Again.
There are probably still a ton of oil heated homes with steam pipes wrapped in asbestos in the US. Hell, even my high school in the early 2000s was still using asbestos insulation everywhere, and I recall seeing those mesothelioma class-action commercials way before that in the 90s.
I bought a house in New England that still had it in 2016 and it was upwards of $7000 to replace at a discount (which also included the boiler, so probably closer $2000 for the pipes+labor) in 2018. For those looking to buy a home that might be oil heated, keep this in mind! One of the previous owners attempted to cover it all with black duct tape, but it wasn’t made to last under the heat those pipes can put out (especially when your boiler tstat breaks and ambient temps rise to 90F…)
Asbestos abatement ain’t cheap because there are specific ways it needs to be handled and disposed of.
If you don’t live in a shithole state, at least.
The healthy power of asbestos crystals in your toothpaste will remove any stubborn bacteria that HCL or Sulfuric acids can’t remove! HSO4! Really! One brushing and you’ll have a permanent smile in no time! …some people may not have a permanent smile depending in rigor mortis.
Is that for buildings or all applications? There were still some niche uses outside of buildings.
They’re going to unban it and RFK is going to say lick it to cure measles
