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Did you know that you’re allowed to say fuck on the Internet?
I am irrationally annoyed that fuck was censored. Ridiculous.
No, that’s a rational reaction.
Engagement bait successful 🙂
This is Lemmy, there’s nothing to gain even
You have no idea how seriously people take internet points then.
There’s websites to buy accounts and everything.
Engagement means nothing on lemmy lol, there is no algorithm to appease
Copy-pasting my own comment from before:
You have no idea how seriously people take internet points then.
There’s websites to buy accounts and everything.
I don’t think it’s irrational at all, with all the fascist shit that’s going on we might as well not do their work for them.
Imagine the glass blowers back in the day when glow in the dark glassware was in fashion.
Honestly, I think they’re better off than the girls licking the radioactive paint brushes… Not that either group is having good time.
There’s not that much uranium in uranium glass, uranium isn’t all that radioactive, and the glass blowers wouldn’t be eating it like a lot of the radium girls were. I could maybe see some issues if they are using it as a glaze depending on how they applied it. (And technically the uranium glass is fluorescent not glow in the dark.)
Eating molten glass was generally discouraged anyway.
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Funny a book I read literally today, published 1918 had radium as the mysterious magic treasure hidden in the island with healing powers. Well, and also cancerous sores powers. They knew what happened to Curie.
The Radium Girls book was pretty good, recommend reading it if you haven’t already.
Dear lord. I don’t think I can stomach that read, but when I hear people (Americans really) bitch about government regulations, this is the kind of bullshit that comes to mind and makes me boil…
Back in the day, a Socialist named Upton Sinclair wrote a novel called “The Jungle.” It was about the terrible conditions in the Chicago slaughterhouses.
It caused a lot of people to stop buying processed meat.
The meat packers got together and demanded the government step in.
We got food regulations because the processors wanted to keep making money.
And he wrote it to emphasize the terrible working conditions but everyone, instead, went, “Ew, I’m eating that??”
Great book. More relevant today than ever.
Yeah, the way to change work conditions is strikes, nothing else really helps. But it works for the exact same reason the book did - because if workers are striking they can’t make money, so they agree to work regulations so they can keep profiting.
That was me when I read the book the best democracy money can Buy and it got to the section on the slaughter house industry. Self regulation is best regulation…
Or if you prefer podcasts over reading then this is a fantastic episode:
https://timharford.com/2023/12/cautionary-tales-how-the-radium-girls-fought-back/
