There's not that much uranium in uranium glass, uranium isn't all that radioactive, and the glass blowers wouldn't be eating it like a lot of the radium girls were. I could maybe see some issues if they are using it as a glaze depending on how they applied it. (And technically the uranium glass is fluorescent not glow in the dark.)
Funny a book I read literally today, published 1918 had radium as the mysterious magic treasure hidden in the island with healing powers. Well, and also cancerous sores powers. They knew what happened to Curie.
Dear lord. I don't think I can stomach that read, but when I hear people (Americans really) bitch about government regulations, this is the kind of bullshit that comes to mind and makes me boil...
Back in the day, a Socialist named Upton Sinclair wrote a novel called "The Jungle." It was about the terrible conditions in the Chicago slaughterhouses.
It caused a lot of people to stop buying processed meat.
The meat packers got together and demanded the government step in.
We got food regulations because the processors wanted to keep making money.
Yeah, the way to change work conditions is strikes, nothing else really helps. But it works for the exact same reason the book did - because if workers are striking they can't make money, so they agree to work regulations so they can keep profiting.
That was me when I read the book the best democracy money can Buy and it got to the section on the slaughter house industry. Self regulation is best regulation....
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snoons@lemmy.ca · 159 pts · 155d
I am irrationally annoyed that fuck was censored. Ridiculous.
drthunder@midwest.social · 39 pts · 155d
I don't think it's irrational at all, with all the fascist shit that's going on we might as well not do their work for them.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 36 pts · 155d
Engagement bait successful 🙂
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 155d
This is Lemmy, there's nothing to gain even
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 155d
You have no idea how seriously people take internet points then.
There's websites to buy accounts and everything.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 154d
Engagement means nothing on lemmy lol, there is no algorithm to appease
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 154d
Copy-pasting my own comment from before:
You have no idea how seriously people take internet points then.
There's websites to buy accounts and everything.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 155d
No, that's a rational reaction.
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 48 pts · 155d
Imagine the glass blowers back in the day when glow in the dark glassware was in fashion.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 46 pts · 155d
Honestly, I think they're better off than the girls licking the radioactive paint brushes... Not that either group is having good time.
duckythescientist@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 155d
There's not that much uranium in uranium glass, uranium isn't all that radioactive, and the glass blowers wouldn't be eating it like a lot of the radium girls were. I could maybe see some issues if they are using it as a glaze depending on how they applied it. (And technically the uranium glass is fluorescent not glow in the dark.)
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d
Eating molten glass was generally discouraged anyway.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 1 pts · 155d
taiyang@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 155d
Funny a book I read literally today, published 1918 had radium as the mysterious magic treasure hidden in the island with healing powers. Well, and also cancerous sores powers. They knew what happened to Curie.
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 155d
The Radium Girls book was pretty good, recommend reading it if you haven’t already.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 155d
Dear lord. I don't think I can stomach that read, but when I hear people (Americans really) bitch about government regulations, this is the kind of bullshit that comes to mind and makes me boil...
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 17 pts · 155d
Back in the day, a Socialist named Upton Sinclair wrote a novel called "The Jungle." It was about the terrible conditions in the Chicago slaughterhouses.
It caused a lot of people to stop buying processed meat.
The meat packers got together and demanded the government step in.
We got food regulations because the processors wanted to keep making money.
EarlOfSam@quokk.au · 12 pts · 155d
And he wrote it to emphasize the terrible working conditions but everyone, instead, went, "Ew, I'm eating that??"
Great book. More relevant today than ever.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 154d
Yeah, the way to change work conditions is strikes, nothing else really helps. But it works for the exact same reason the book did - because if workers are striking they can't make money, so they agree to work regulations so they can keep profiting.
Jarix@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 155d
That was me when I read the book the best democracy money can Buy and it got to the section on the slaughter house industry. Self regulation is best regulation....
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 2 pts · 154d
Or if you prefer podcasts over reading then this is a fantastic episode:
https://timharford.com/2023/12/cautionary-tales-how-the-radium-girls-fought-back/
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 154d