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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 🤔
That sounds horrible they better get the asbestos out if there quick.
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.
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.
You can not make automotive breaks without it.
Somebody still has to mine it though
It’s not that hard to make and use PPE for the miners. Whether or not it’s enforced is another question, but with how easy asbestos lawsuits seem to be, they probably are.
Sure, I’m not saying it’s necessarily a good thing that we’re still using it, but recognizing and treating it as a serious carcinogen rather than something benign goes a long way to improving the amount of harm it causes
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.
Medieval kings used to do party tricks where they’d throw their (asbestos) tablecloth into the fire to impress their guests, and then have it pulled out and relaid on the table
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.
streak of some really fantastic videos
OP:
THERE’S A VERITASIUM VIDEO ABOUT THE 4 FREEDOMS MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!!!
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?
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.
Jetfuel can’t melt asbestos beams
Sure can weaken them though
Yes and office fires can too
There were the whole MAGAZINE of just asbestos???
They were just trying to market the stuff asbestos they could
Would you believe, that the whole magazine was actually printed on refined asbestos too?
n-no?
The real question is did they stand by their product? What was the magazine printed on? Angryduck.jpg
“we couldnt live the way we do without it”
😆 if only
we couldnt live
Ftfy
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.
You try too hard.
