• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    2 hours 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. Like a certain ilk of people already knew for years that this was going to happen, and they took a secret sadistic pleasure in it because it meant [XYZ whatever financial/metaphysical rewards] to them 🤔

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    10 hours 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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      10 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.

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      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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    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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      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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    10 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.