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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Why everything he does is evil? I don't get it.

[–] Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 hours ago

We tried microplastics and PFAS for a few decades, clearly they aren't killing us fast enough. Bring back the GOAT

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 35 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I cannot think of any reason they would do this unless they were just actively trying to kill people. We've known that asbestos is bad for 100 years and they finally banned the last kind of it very recently. This doesn't even make sense economically as it's not even in high demand. It would be cheaper and more economically viable to leave it exactly where it is. Next thing you know they are gonna start putting lead back into gasoline for literally no reason besides "fuck you."

My stab in the dark is to make asbestos lawsuits worthless.

If there is money to be made or saved by the capital class, you bet your ass Trump will make it happen.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 25 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Every sign points to them actively trying to kill people.

Yeah this is when the wealthy have decided the lower classes are expendable. They don't actually care about poor people having more babies. They just want rich people having more babies. They would like to see us gone because they think they can offset climate change by getting rid of a lot of us. Too bad for them they use ten times the resources as the bottom 50% of society.

[–] Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Lead back in gas isn’t that far fetched. I have heard older folks complain about the fact that leaded gas isn’t a thing anymore because “it keeps the engine cleaner”.

[–] setnof@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

And it’s still used in aviation gasoline, specifically 100LL which is used in many piston-engine aircraft.

[–] viscacha@feddit.org 4 points 6 hours ago

Which is complete bs to begin with. Lead was added to fortify benzine for higher compression and to “lubricate” the valves. Modern additives and motor construction makes lead completely unnecessary and even possibly detrimental. It basically was used to mask constructional shortcomings of old motors.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 7 points 5 hours ago

It's going to be a very merry xmas

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Installation of blowers around the white house and sprinkling with asbestos dust around the clock.

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I didn’t realise it wasn’t already banned. It’s been banned in the UK since 1999.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 9 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

It is banned; they're talking about un-banning it

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It should be mentioned that it was only banned in the US in 2024 under Biden, so obviously yet another reason why he would want to overturn the ban (on top him being paid to overturn it of course).

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 13 points 4 hours ago

You baned ASBESTOS in 2024???!!! It's not the right century.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Like restarting production or slowing down the decontamination?

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago

Restarting production. Trump has been praising asbestos for years, so the people eager to restart that production has obviously been paying him for some time.