South African diamond miner being x-rayed at the end of his shift to prevent theft, 1954 (lemmy.world)

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[-] HerbalGamer@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Remember kids, these are the kind of things that got Elon his money

[-] Cloudkid@lemmus.org -1 points 1 year ago

I don't like Elon Musk, his buyout of Twitter was horibble and I don't agree with many stuff he says, that begin said

story about Musk's father once owning an emerald mine evolved into a larger rumor that had no evidence to support its central claim. Source

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

According to the article, the "rumor" started in 2014 when Elon went on an interview tour and SAID that his dad had an emerald mine to multiple publications. He told an elaborate story to one about riding in his dad's plane full of emeralds and ak-47s

The research couldn't find financial proof of any claimed debt, since Elon won't provide any. But "hand shake" deals about illegal emerald smuggling tends not to have a paper trail.

Then, a year after this article came out, Elon tweeted "I'll give a million doge to anyone who can prove it existed" and his dad replied that it existed and that Elon had been there.

Errol also went on an interview tour (after this article was posted) and told multiple publications that he did own a share of an emerald mining business. But Elon wasn't lying because it technically wasn't in a hole, but an outcropping!

Since changing his mind on the subject, Elon had since only admitted that his start up was supported by selling his own PC for 2k, a 5k gift from his "bro" and 8k from some other guy. But later a SmAaLL LoAn (as they like to say) of 200k from his dad and others. But that was later, you guys.

[-] UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

This looks like a fluoroscope, basically an X-ray that is constantly turned on. The tech is looking at a live X-ray view, not a film transparency.

The radiologic exposure for both of them is orders of magnitude higher than a normal x-ray that we think about. A normal xray exposes you for less than a second, this is bombarding him with X-rays the entire time he is standing there.

[-] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Plus he had to do this every day at the end of his shift. Between that and the rock dust exposure I'd hate to see the cancer rates for those guys

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

It's bad for them, but imagine this doctor. He has to examine every one of them every day. If he didn't die of cancer he must not have lived very long.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You might be thinking that getting an x-ray every day is bad for the miners, but this is a ye-olde look through machine. Yes it's bad for the miners, but the guy looking at it is putting his face and uppee body right in the beam here. And I'm guessing he does hundreds of these a day.

Then again, old timey x-ray machines were pretty soft, ~~so~~ (edit) AND the miner is getting big dose of alpha and beta radiation too. And at least the technician isn't breathing coal dust, so it's probably a toss up who gets cancers first.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Both people in this picture are being abused by the company. The difference is that the company also lets the white guy abuse the black guy, and for that reason, the white guy feels superior.

This is one of those things you see in fascist governments. As long as people are able to abuse someone, they'll accept a much worse station as well as a lot of abuse themselves.