Reminds me of a guy I know who said that lead paint and lead pipes in housing are fine as long as the occupants sign a waiver because "people should get to decide for themselves whether they want to accept the risk" and that "it'd be an expensive waste of government money to remove"
I can't imagine it. 1kg of steel is already so much heavier. I mean just look how many feathers it takes to reach that. Can you imagine taking this times 5?
I pointed out that his stance was anti-poor. His defense was "No it isn't, I'm poor myself." He owns 30 acres of land that his parents helped him pay for.
Never criticizing the expensive waste of government money it was to use lead products in the first place. They just don't want to acknowledge that undoing harm is part of fixing a problem.
The fact that these things were allowed at all is the problem, not that it'll cost money to fix it.
"Water conducted through earthen pipes is more wholesome than that through lead; indeed that conveyed in lead must be injurious, because from it white lead is obtained, and this is said to be injurious to the human system. Hence, if what is generated from it is pernicious, there can be no doubt that itself cannot be a wholesome body. This may be verified by observing the workers in lead, who are of a pallid colour; for in casting lead, the fumes from it fixing on the different members, and daily burning them, destroy the vigour of the blood; water should therefore on no account be conducted in leaden pipes if we are desirous that it should be wholesome." - Vitruvius, over 2000 years ago
Just like you can choose between working and starving to death. Landlords know tenants can’t afford anywhere that isn’t actively killing you so why would they bother spending money to take out the lead?
Reminds me of a guy I know who said that lead paint and lead pipes in housing are fine as long as the occupants sign a waiver because "people should get to decide for themselves whether they want to accept the risk" and that "it'd be an expensive waste of government money to remove"
my favorite thing about heavy metals is their tendency to stay where you put them
They are heavy, of course they will stay put
Not like feathers, which just fly around everywhere
Just yesterday I moved 5 whole kgs of feathers. It was a breeze.
Just imagine if it were steel, what a hassle
I can't imagine it. 1kg of steel is already so much heavier. I mean just look how many feathers it takes to reach that. Can you imagine taking this times 5?
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I pointed out that his stance was anti-poor. His defense was "No it isn't, I'm poor myself." He owns 30 acres of land that his parents helped him pay for.
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30 acres sounds like a farm or something which probably means he owns some form of capital lol. Poor... he can get the fuck out of here.
I love that I can buy a Brita filter and a hotplate to drink clean water in the US. That's real freedom!
Isn't poor people dying how we test for botulism?
The children who yearn for the mines, yearn most of all to be canaries
Never criticizing the expensive waste of government money it was to use lead products in the first place. They just don't want to acknowledge that undoing harm is part of fixing a problem.
The fact that these things were allowed at all is the problem, not that it'll cost money to fix it.
I don't think the health effects of lead were well understood until after most of the plumbing was already in place
"Water conducted through earthen pipes is more wholesome than that through lead; indeed that conveyed in lead must be injurious, because from it white lead is obtained, and this is said to be injurious to the human system. Hence, if what is generated from it is pernicious, there can be no doubt that itself cannot be a wholesome body. This may be verified by observing the workers in lead, who are of a pallid colour; for in casting lead, the fumes from it fixing on the different members, and daily burning them, destroy the vigour of the blood; water should therefore on no account be conducted in leaden pipes if we are desirous that it should be wholesome." - Vitruvius, over 2000 years ago
They've always known.
I'm just going off the US and its history of knowing dangerous things for longer than they admit, but I'm gonna research it either way. Thanks!
That’s even dumber…
Just like you can choose between working and starving to death. Landlords know tenants can’t afford anywhere that isn’t actively killing you so why would they bother spending money to take out the lead?