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I sometimes think back about our attitudes towards lead, mercury, and even radium[1], and I truly wonder how we survived as a specifies! I am grateful that col
by ed25519FUUU 6y ago
I sometimes think back about our attitudes towards lead, mercury, and even radium[1], and I truly wonder how we survived as a specifies!
I am grateful that collectively things seem to be improving. We're learning more about diseases, their causes, and their treatments.
1. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/24/an-energy-drink-that-contained-radium-was-actually-a-thing-in-the-1920s/ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/24/an-energy-drink-th...
- outworlder 6y agoFrankly, this could be the Great Filter.
- jschwartzi 6y agoThis kind of thing is what eventually kills off Brewer's Yeast. The individual yeast cells keep making sugar into alcohol until the alcohol concentration is so great that they kill each other off.
- jwdunne 6y agoYou know what, that is a fascinating analogy and microcosmic explanation of the Great Filter. I’ve never thought of that before.
- mycall 6y agoNo, that is Facebook right now :)