“Using an electric toaster and vacuum cleaner to dry hair: a bizarre life hack from the 1930s.”

Toaster inside a wooden box filled with cardboard and asbestos. Gotta love vintage engineering

See you don’t need to worry about the cardboard and wood catching fire because the asbestos is a really good flame retardant

If you don’t disrupt the fibers it’s an amazing material with a ton of uses. Problem is we’re really good at the sort of things that break those fibers and put them in the air.

You mean like using a vacuum cleaner exhaust to blow air through the asbestos filled enclosure (and right at the user’s face)?

yea, how do YOU consume your asbestos

She’s not so much consuming it as shotgun blasting it at her face

That’s the double use as skin care, sandblasting as exfoliant. Peeling all the dead cells right off your face.

Great for the lungs, cram that shit all the way down in there. Fireproof lungs.

I prefer to snort it directly into my lungs

Asbestos is best before breakfast

A life retardant too!

> retardant You can’t say that anymore.

Asbestos is such an amazing and versatile material. Engineering-wise, it’s one of the most useful materials. Same with lead. Too bad they’re not compatible with human biology.

Microplastics may be the next lead/asbestos for our society. We’re in the blissfully unaware stage right now. edit: > Emerging research highlights their potential to induce inflammation, oxidative stress, and direct damage to critical organ systems, including cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, and reproductive health. Furthermore, microplastics act as carriers for a host of toxic chemicals, amplifying their detrimental effects. > > A significant study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in March 2024 revealed that patients undergoing surgery to remove plaque from their arteries who had microplastics in these plaques faced a 4.5-fold higher risk of stroke, heart attack, or death over a 34-month period. > > Think of it like tiny shards of glass accumulating in your body’s plumbing system, potentially irritating and inflaming the pipes, leading to blockages or other severe complications. > > Studies have shown that nano-sized plastics can cause mitochondrial damage in human respiratory cells, and high concentrations of certain microplastics can increase the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). > > Imagine your lungs, designed to filter clean air, instead becoming a battleground where immune cells constantly fight off microscopic plastic invaders, leading to chronic irritation and damage. > >

I don’t think we’re in the “blissfully unaware” stage. More like the “money > human lives” stage. Everyone knows how bad plastics are but the global economy and technology level demand more and better plastics. Imo the bacteria will evolve faster to eat it before we ditch it entirely. Prob the first real step we will take is removing more and more plastic from food containers and food adjacent…. Then again Ya Boys over at Dupont went from C8 to fuckin Chemical X (same PFOA but new name!) so I kinda doubt we’ll ever actually get rid of this shit. Maybe when we join the Galactic Federation (or take it over) we can go through a technologically advanced genetic cleanse for stuff like plastics and dangerous heavy metals.

The Bacteria?… By the time we sort it out, WE’LL probably evolve to be able to eat it (that is, unless we are “Hollywood-style mutated” by it within the the next few years, whereupon a not-insignificant proportion of our population may end up shooting it from our wrists or being able to spit it out at our enemies at 20 mpppms – microplastic pieces per microsecond)

It’s a fun game to try and figure out which product(s) we currently use, that people will be saying this about in 50-100 years

We’re in the relatively early “oh fuck” stages of PFAS right now. Miracle material, we put it in everything, now we’re scrambling to take it out

teflon

Anything with plastic probably

Wait until we find out what wi-fi is doing to us.

Nothing, sorry to spoil that for you

The people in 2100 willl say the same about you!

If it was a problem they’d call it asworstos.

We used to use asbestos blocks in junior high school shop and craft classes when using the torch.

Don’t forget the fact that you’re blowing air across this asbestos and into your face. Disturbing asbestos is the best way to kick up those needle sharp fibers into the air.

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I mean, this is basically how a hair dryer works. A fan and an electric heating element.

Ah, but does it have asbestos?

Only the good ones