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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Stupid people used asbestos. We made ourselves part plastic!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Asbestos generation laughing at the Romans and their use of lead

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Here goes the microplastic generation

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

The geological record will be atomic fallout, and then microplastics on the next layer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

My testicles are really bouncy! How about yours? No? Get some micro plastics in your diet!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Makes me daydream of what new horrible thing the next generations are going to poison themselves with

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The current one we are poisoning ourselves with is .... disinformation and delusion

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh no, it's always something no one even thinks about until 30 years later. It's always a surprise. Something everyone thought was a great thing.

I just hope it's not cat pictures.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We’ve also swept psychotropic drugs in the drinking water under the rug…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can't be that bad if you don't even bother elaborating.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

That logic sounds suspect and I’m not sure what you’re on about…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My bet is Hardi board will be the next one. Concrete dust causes silicosis. In industrial construction allowable concrete dust is basically zero. Residential construction people are sawing and grinding this concrete siding all the time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eh. You should be cutting that with a wet saw, like any other masonry product. The problem is that a lot of contractors are trying to go fast, since time is money, and they skip wetting stone and masonry products while cutting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah it's not as bad as asbestos. I think it will be similar to lead paint. Bad for you, but not downright dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's pretty bad. IIRC Australia has banned/is banning stone composite countertops because of how many workers were getting silicosis from breathing the dust, and they were getting silicosis at really young ages. Like, mid-20s. Silicosis isn't bad in the same way as mesothelioma, but it's its own kind of hell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Hardi board

That's a good one. I haven't heard of that before. It even checks off the "fireproof" box

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Except there were scientific studies done at the time that "proved" it was safe, even as a cigarette filter. Can't really blame people for trusting that IMO.

Now I wonder what was actually so flawed about those studies.