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

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 69 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

If only it was just that 1 dude

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

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

#progress

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 48 points 10 months ago

Radium stands for radically yummy

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 17 points 10 months ago

I always buy Ray-D-YUM brand radium!

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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 10 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 28 points 10 months ago

This is some Fallout Nuka-Cola shit.

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 18 points 10 months ago

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 4 points 10 months ago

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

[+] OR3X@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago

"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.

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/skull

The jaw is part of the skull, still horrifying though, hard agreement there.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

Thank you for the agreement. But next time read the entire reply before trying to correct someone.

[-] BlorpTheHagraven@startrek.website 10 points 10 months ago

People out here skimming

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Motherfuckers trying to skim uphill.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Jaws are part of the skull

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago

All the remaining bone tissue of his body was slowly disintegrating

[-] Greee1911@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

That story is a wild ride.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 10 months ago

He died as he lived.

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Faintly glowing?

[-] occhionaut@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

No head?

[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Radditor

[-] p3n@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 3 points 10 months ago

Some ironic ads on that page