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A Man Drank So Much Radium His Skull Literally Disintegrated (www.sciencealert.com)
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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month ago

yesman: please write a short response to this article in the voice of a libertarian

GPT: sure, I'll be happy to do that:

Just another case of power hungry government trying to tell citizens what they're allowed to do with their own body. They killed a whole industry just because one guy had a side-effect.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 month ago

If only it was just that 1 dude

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

With this new tech, we can have annoying libertarians in our pocket at all times.

#progress

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 50 points 1 month ago

Radium stands for radically yummy

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 16 points 1 month ago

I always buy Ray-D-YUM brand radium!

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Makes one wonder about the content of that "Radium Girls" book.

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

It is based on real people. Those girls are why many of the labor laws we have in the US exist.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

And their jaws literally desintegrated. And they still had to fight for their bosses to change anything. Also, the non-toxic alternative was only slightly more expensive.

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Radium paint was used on watches into the 70s despite what happened to the radium girls in the 20s-30s.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 29 points 1 month ago

This is some Fallout Nuka-Cola shit.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

These kinds of stories are exactly where Fallout themes came from.

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 month ago

My high school drama group did Radium Girls last year. Really good play, the movie is mediocre though. Check out a production if you get a chance.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month ago

I read about it several years ago. It's fascinating and sad

[-] OR3X@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

I cannot imagine the pain of your fucking skull disintegrating.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago

"His head was swathed in bandages. He had undergone two successive operations in which his whole upper jaw, excepting two front teeth, and most of his lower jaw had been removed. All the remaining bone tissue of his body was slowly disintegrating, and holes were actually forming in his skull.".

Not just his skull, too. That's horrifying.

[-] Greee1911@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Wonder if it destroyed his nerve ending at the same rate. One can only hope.

[-] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

That story is a wild ride.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago

If by that you mean, "wtf?!" I agree.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

He died as he lived.

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Faintly glowing?

[-] occhionaut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

No head?

[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Radditor

[-] p3n@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mr. Ballen featured this story a few years ago if you want to hear a dramatized version: https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=403&v=8MpR4k3-edc&feature=youtu.be

[-] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Some ironic ads on that page

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