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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

my garage, the old fence, and a good chunk of my house is asbestos.

They've been standing 60 years and you wouldn't know it.

Damn shame we can't use the material. Proof god hates us.

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

The mineral might be good but its poisonous ish. Do you want your walls to be poisonous, your roof?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago

magic population control

[–] [email protected] 52 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Aw fuck l, I knew I remembered that shit from childhood.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Aw fuck l, I knew I remembered that shit from ~~childhood~~ The Wizard of Oz.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

How are you still alive?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

Something something you may be entitled to compensation

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago

Do you have cancer yet?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

They're going to say the same about plastic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Just waiting for 3D printing fumes and SLA resin to be under the radar.

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

Plastic is not very reactive. This property makes it generally not directly harmful to organic health, but also notoriously slow to decompose, causing huge amounts of pollution. I think it's misleading to compare it to asbestos.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

From what I gather, asbestos is also very stable and not reactive. Asbestosis is caused by tiny fibers physically tearing your lungs.

It's unlikely that plastic is as dangerous (we'd seen it by now) but its buildup can likewise cause some condition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Microplastics gathering in the brain. Most of which come from tires not food containers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Such as increased rates of infertility iirc

[–] [email protected] 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

they already are

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

And we keep ramping up production because… Capitalism!

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