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Do you also have bags of asbestos, buckets of leaded paint, poof your hair up with black market CFC hairspray, maybe decorate with radium glowing clocks?

bombcar 4y ago
Preban Freon was an actually decent thing to have around especially if you have a device that’s not easy to replace.
- kristopolous 4y ago
  There's personal responsibility individuals have for harming others from known consequences for their decisions and behavior. The resulting government policies are usually a direct result of multiple cases in civil litigation. The libertarians rules have been followed. Some of them just really don't believe in what they preach.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    Meh I’m still salty about gas cans. Spilled way more fuel with the new ones than I ever did with the old.
buildsjets 4y ago
Actually, yes, I DO maintain a strategic reserve of banned/difficult to find resources, for example R12 Freon, R22 Freon, Halon 1301, Halon 1211, various compressed gasses of assorted toxicity, Methylene Chloride based paint strippers, , a few hundred pounds of lead ingot for my smelter, radioactive lanthanated/thoriated tungsten electrodes, etc. My limited selection of asbestos is all safely encapsulated in cross-corrugated stainless steel sheets with seam welded edges, so no worries there, but when you need to protect equipment from exposure to a 2000F flame, there really no substitute. (Fiberfrax will sometimes do in a pinch, for a limited duration.)
- yummypaint 4y ago
  If you have children, do them a favor and properly dispose of this stuff before you die.
  - buildsjets 4y ago
    Forgot to mention the guitar amp and quad stack that is placarded not to use with the volume set above 50% on indoor stages due to risk of permanent hearing loss in the audience.
coderaptor 4y ago
These are not the same things. You are not necessarily capable of protecting yourself from their use by another party. If these magnets are used incorrectly, why should the responsibility for that not be the users?
- kristopolous 4y ago
  The user I was responding to didn't make that distinction. As far as your question, I've spent enough time with corporate legal to know many of these protections are industry driven to scaffold up a legal framework to protect themselves. That's what "self regulation" actually looks like in material reality. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what was done here. It's producer protection - doing say $100mil in sales on a legally grey product makes attorneys nervous

bombcar 4y ago

Preban Freon was an actually decent thing to have around especially if you have a device that’s not easy to replace.

kristopolous 4y ago
There's personal responsibility individuals have for harming others from known consequences for their decisions and behavior. The resulting government policies are usually a direct result of multiple cases in civil litigation. The libertarians rules have been followed. Some of them just really don't believe in what they preach.
- bombcar 4y ago
  Meh I’m still salty about gas cans. Spilled way more fuel with the new ones than I ever did with the old.

buildsjets 4y ago

Actually, yes, I DO maintain a strategic reserve of banned/difficult to find resources, for example R12 Freon, R22 Freon, Halon 1301, Halon 1211, various compressed gasses of assorted toxicity, Methylene Chloride based paint strippers, , a few hundred pounds of lead ingot for my smelter, radioactive lanthanated/thoriated tungsten electrodes, etc. My limited selection of asbestos is all safely encapsulated in cross-corrugated stainless steel sheets with seam welded edges, so no worries there, but when you need to protect equipment from exposure to a 2000F flame, there really no substitute. (Fiberfrax will sometimes do in a pinch, for a limited duration.)

yummypaint 4y ago
If you have children, do them a favor and properly dispose of this stuff before you die.
- buildsjets 4y ago
  Forgot to mention the guitar amp and quad stack that is placarded not to use with the volume set above 50% on indoor stages due to risk of permanent hearing loss in the audience.

coderaptor 4y ago

These are not the same things. You are not necessarily capable of protecting yourself from their use by another party. If these magnets are used incorrectly, why should the responsibility for that not be the users?

kristopolous 4y ago
The user I was responding to didn't make that distinction. As far as your question, I've spent enough time with corporate legal to know many of these protections are industry driven to scaffold up a legal framework to protect themselves. That's what "self regulation" actually looks like in material reality. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what was done here. It's producer protection - doing say $100mil in sales on a legally grey product makes attorneys nervous