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• otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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  • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Somebody still has to mine it though

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  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Medieval kings used to do party tricks where they’d throw their (asbestos) tablecloth into the fire to impress their guests, and then have pulled out and relaid on the table

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Veritasium has a good video on it.

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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• GargleBlaster@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Jetfuel can’t melt asbestos beams

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure can weaken them though

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    • HyonoKo@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes and office fires can too

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• ultrahamster64@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There were the whole MAGAZINE of just asbestos???

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  • Photonic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    They were just trying to market the stuff asbestos they could

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Would you believe, that the whole magazine was actually printed on refined asbestos too?

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      n-no?

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  • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The real question is did they stand by their product? What was the magazine printed on? Angryduck.jpg

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• Redstone1@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “we couldnt live the way we do without it”

  😆 if only

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    we couldnt live

    Ftfy

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• MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    You try too hard.

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