A Man Drank So Much Radium His Skull Literally Disintegrated : interestingasfuck

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 63 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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 9 months ago

If only it was just that 1 dude

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 months ago

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

#progress

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 51 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Radium stands for radically yummy

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 17 points 9 months ago

I always buy Ray-D-YUM brand radium!

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 9 months ago (1 children)

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 9 months ago

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

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is some Fallout Nuka-Cola shit.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 9 months ago

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

[+] OR3X@lemm.ee 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"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 9 months ago

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

[–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That story is a wild ride.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 9 months ago

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

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

He died as he lived.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Faintly glowing?

[–] occhionaut@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

No head?

[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Radditor

[–] p3n@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 9 months ago

Some ironic ads on that page