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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18195 on: October 16, 2017, 01:22:43 pm »

Do what you can now And forget the rest. If you're having regrets that means you're not in motion.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18196 on: October 16, 2017, 01:50:19 pm »

Do what you can now And forget the rest. If you're having regrets that means you're not in motion.
Alright. Alright, I will, whenever I get the chance.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18197 on: October 16, 2017, 01:55:31 pm »

For the record, I'm absolutely terrible at all the things I yell unsolicited advice about, so, you know. Eat some salt with it. I just want to say whatever makes people feel least worst fastest.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18198 on: October 16, 2017, 03:16:09 pm »

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18199 on: October 16, 2017, 07:48:39 pm »

fluorine, seriously that shit is terrifying, it sets asbestos on fire you know, that stuff they used to cover walls in to prevent house fires before they realized it ruins your lungs Asbestos is Harmless (A registered trademark of Aperture science)

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18200 on: October 17, 2017, 01:42:29 pm »

Fluorine ruins your lungs (and the rest of your body) 10 times more and 10 times faster. It will eat at your flesh until you are nothing but a charred skeleton.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18201 on: October 17, 2017, 01:48:25 pm »

Fluorine ruins your lungs (and the rest of your body) 10 times more and 10 times faster. It will eat at your flesh until you are nothing but a charred skeleton.

Far faster than 10x; fluorine is corrosive, where chrysotile asbestos is "just" a carcinogen.

Also, fluorine will corrode bone as well as flesh.

FOOF is more reactive, though. And fun to make!
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« Reply #18202 on: October 17, 2017, 06:29:08 pm »

fluorine, seriously that shit is terrifying, it sets asbestos on fire you know, that stuff they used to cover walls in to prevent house fires before they realized it ruins your lungs Asbestos is Harmless (A registered trademark of Aperture science)

Poe's law, there's actually a conservative lobby group who says asbestos was unfairly targeted.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090207201132/http://www.heartland.org:80/suites/environment/index.html

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What distinguishes common-sense environmentalism from more extreme environmental activism is a commitment to fight real environmental problems rather than imagined ones and a realization that free markets are an ally rather than an enemy of environmental stewardship.
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Over the years, environmental groups have launched campaigns against asbestos, dioxin, lead, mercury, pesticides, PCBs, chlorine, and endocrine disrupters. In every case, later research found the threats had been vastly exaggerated, and that public policies were adopted that cost far more than any benefits they created.

The key insight that environmental advocates, and the media that gives them sympathetic coverage, overlook is the First Law of Toxicology: The dose makes the poison. Many “toxic” chemicals are not dangerous if the level of exposure is below a threshold where physical affects can be observed, while many “harmless” chemicals can be deadly if we are exposed to too much of them. Many public health scares about chemicals are the result of overlooking this simple but important fact.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18203 on: October 17, 2017, 06:35:56 pm »

I thought asbestos was bat guano
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18204 on: October 17, 2017, 07:05:22 pm »

Im not sure shit can be specifically cancerous, unless you read it on the internet of course
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18205 on: October 17, 2017, 07:16:17 pm »

Im not sure shit can be specifically cancerous, unless you read it on the internet of course

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18206 on: October 17, 2017, 07:21:56 pm »

fluorine, seriously that shit is terrifying, it sets asbestos on fire you know, that stuff they used to cover walls in to prevent house fires before they realized it ruins your lungs Asbestos is Harmless (A registered trademark of Aperture science)

Poe's law, there's actually a conservative lobby group who says asbestos was unfairly targeted.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090207201132/http://www.heartland.org:80/suites/environment/index.html

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What distinguishes common-sense environmentalism from more extreme environmental activism is a commitment to fight real environmental problems rather than imagined ones and a realization that free markets are an ally rather than an enemy of environmental stewardship.
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Over the years, environmental groups have launched campaigns against asbestos, dioxin, lead, mercury, pesticides, PCBs, chlorine, and endocrine disrupters. In every case, later research found the threats had been vastly exaggerated, and that public policies were adopted that cost far more than any benefits they created.

The key insight that environmental advocates, and the media that gives them sympathetic coverage, overlook is the First Law of Toxicology: The dose makes the poison. Many “toxic” chemicals are not dangerous if the level of exposure is below a threshold where physical affects can be observed, while many “harmless” chemicals can be deadly if we are exposed to too much of them. Many public health scares about chemicals are the result of overlooking this simple but important fact.
To be fair there are multiple things that fall into the category of asbestos that aren't as dangerous as others and its completely harmless when locked up in tings like tile as long as you don't break them. not that some aren't really dangerous which they are.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18207 on: October 17, 2017, 07:26:22 pm »

Im not sure shit can be specifically cancerous, unless you read it on the internet of course

Usually carcinogens aren't specifically cancer-causing in the same way that pathogens have specific mechanisms tied to individual disease states; they tend to be either outright mutagens or somewhat more generic inhibitors of some part of DNA damage repair (which in turn increases the erroneous repair rate), but most mutations aren't going to do much to a somatic cell besides kill it, and one dead cell is unnoticeable. One cancer cell, though, eventually becomes a lot of cancer cells.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18208 on: October 17, 2017, 07:28:49 pm »

Poop has toxins in it. e.g. colon cancer is affected by what you eat. e.g. cancer poops.

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #18209 on: October 18, 2017, 02:03:00 am »

Why would you eat cancer poops
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