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>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. >Thomas J. Midgley Wait, are we now ok with blaming hundreds of millions of people f

by zionic 4y ago

>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. >Thomas J. Midgley Wait, are we now ok with blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person because they had a common skin color? If so things are going to get really interesting.

Demonsult 4y ago
Lead was used in Egyptian pottery many thousands of years ago.
- hinkley 4y ago
  And to sweeten wine, which survived into the Middle Ages as people soaking lumps in cheap wine to improve the flavor. There’s a plausible theory that tomatoes were mistaken for poisonous due to lead dinner plates of that era. With the possible exception of the counterfeit wine example, that’s all very ethically different from pumping it into the air.
  - rexreed 4y ago
    Specifically, it's Lead Acetate vs a lump of metal lead. "Lead acetate, also known as sugar of lead, is a salt that (ironically) has a sweet flavor—a fairly unusual quality in poisons, which are more likely to taste bitter, signaling to the taster that they are unsafe for consumption. The ancient Romans used the compound—which they called sapa—to sweeten wine" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sugar-of-lead-a-deadly-sweetener-89984487/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sugar-of-lead-a-...
  - pmarreck 4y ago
    lead... as a sweetener?? :: looks on past in abject horror ::
    - hinkley 4y ago
      And yet every time I get water down the wrong pipe - basically attempting to drown myself just trying to take in one of our most basic life-sustaining inputs - I realize that not only are we still basically monkeys but we haven't really evolved half as much as we think we have as a species. It's a miracle we live long enough to reproduce. You are literally a winning lottery ticket, so enjoy it while you can.
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jasonlotito 4y ago
> blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person That's not what is happening here in the slightest.
- zionic 4y ago
  >Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world Seems like a pretty straightforward statement to me
  - jasonlotito 4y ago
    And yet you are 100% wrong.
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- Demonsult 4y ago
  Since English is hard for you, it's spelled synecdoche and is hardly an excuse.
hinkley 4y ago
> chief apologist Mad scientist supreme or no, he had any number of corporate interests financially invested in his success in stonewalling against reform. In the Veritasium video he mentions how Midgley pulled the age old trick of exposing yourself to your own chemicals on stage to show they are safe. He poisoned himself with one of these stunts and was never the same. Literally hoisted on his own petard.

by zionic 4y ago

Demonsult 4y ago

Lead was used in Egyptian pottery many thousands of years ago.

hinkley 4y ago
And to sweeten wine, which survived into the Middle Ages as people soaking lumps in cheap wine to improve the flavor. There’s a plausible theory that tomatoes were mistaken for poisonous due to lead dinner plates of that era. With the possible exception of the counterfeit wine example, that’s all very ethically different from pumping it into the air.
- rexreed 4y ago
  Specifically, it's Lead Acetate vs a lump of metal lead. "Lead acetate, also known as sugar of lead, is a salt that (ironically) has a sweet flavor—a fairly unusual quality in poisons, which are more likely to taste bitter, signaling to the taster that they are unsafe for consumption. The ancient Romans used the compound—which they called sapa—to sweeten wine" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sugar-of-lead-a-deadly-sweetener-89984487/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sugar-of-lead-a-...
- pmarreck 4y ago
  lead... as a sweetener?? :: looks on past in abject horror ::
  - hinkley 4y ago
    And yet every time I get water down the wrong pipe - basically attempting to drown myself just trying to take in one of our most basic life-sustaining inputs - I realize that not only are we still basically monkeys but we haven't really evolved half as much as we think we have as a species. It's a miracle we live long enough to reproduce. You are literally a winning lottery ticket, so enjoy it while you can.

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jasonlotito 4y ago

> blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person That's not what is happening here in the slightest.

zionic 4y ago
>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world Seems like a pretty straightforward statement to me
- jasonlotito 4y ago
  And yet you are 100% wrong.

idontpost 4y ago

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Demonsult 4y ago
Since English is hard for you, it's spelled synecdoche and is hardly an excuse.

hinkley 4y ago

> chief apologist Mad scientist supreme or no, he had any number of corporate interests financially invested in his success in stonewalling against reform. In the Veritasium video he mentions how Midgley pulled the age old trick of exposing yourself to your own chemicals on stage to show they are safe. He poisoned himself with one of these stunts and was never the same. Literally hoisted on his own petard.