We DoN't NeEd VaCcInEs We'Ve GoT aSbEsToS!
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Banning asbestos is like discarding our heritage! 🦸 It's American ingenuity, jobs, safety in its most patriotic form. Asbestos has protected us for generations—why abandon this true-blue hero for trendy orthodoxy? Let's celebrate our history and defend what truly makes America great. #AsbestosPatriotism 🗽✨
My pa knows a guy who lost his job installing asbestos and if we stop using it you know CHINA is gonna use and make big fools of us, it's pathetic. Plus the news SAYS it's a witch hunt boiled up by BIG LUNG to steal money from hard working asbestos loving Americans 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
lead too.
It is actually astonishing it took so long for lead to be banned in the US. Even Ben Franklin railed against the use of lead in daily life and he was someone who lived and died in the 18th century.
Even Ben Franklin railed against the use of lead in daily life
whoa, TIL. 1786 NO LESS
TY!
If it didn't cause cancer, asbestos is a fucking miracle material, there are people TODAY who are hugely pro-asbestos
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Back when asbestos was banned, everyone trusted the government. Nobody trusts the government anymore because of its constant foreign wars, corrupt candidates, and human rights abuses. We cannot do things like mandate vaccines and ban cars if the very government that would enforce that ban is this tyrannical and shitty.
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Old car guys are still bitter over unleaded gas. Some will drive to airports to buy the leaded stuff.
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I'm SO glad I live in a city with a decently functioning tram system. If something like that was proposed today, there'd be thousands of people complaining about being forced out of their cars or the city losing its charm or whatever nonsense.
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Implication is that there are things about as bad as asbestos that should be banned, but aren't.
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Wasn't Trump literally trying to bring it back last time?
https://whyy.org/articles/trump-wants-to-make-asbestos-great-again/
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It actually was just recently (a year ago) banned fully in the US. Before that, it was just prohibited to be used in new construction.
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Sponsored by the freedom initiative or something with a similar name to cover up it’s a social media campaign for a billionaire.
Of course he is for it.
It will make him money
And none of the thousands who will get sick and or die
Are people he knows personally