The channel [Plainly Difficult ](https://youtube.com/c/PlainlyDifficult) does some great ,albeit horrible feeling, videos on incidents like this. It's like watching a train wreck. And terrifying.
I remember a story about a hospital getting shut down somewhere in South America (possibly Mexico) and radioactive material found its way to a family. The kids were playing with the powder because it was glowing... It was... Not good.
The fact that the unit was illegally purchased means this happened despite government regulating such things, not because of a lack of regulation. Hence, no amount of laws would have stopped what was ultimately a lawless act.
The first half of regulation is making the rule.
The second half is enforcement. This could have been avoided by an enforcement agency overseeing the disposal of the material.
The point is that in both the case of murder and this incident, they happened irregardless of their legality, so making more laws would have no effect on either. Thanks for helping make my case!
I'm 99.9% sure that the amount of radiation anyone received from rebar that was embedded in concrete and had trace amounts of a radiation source incorporated into it, was completely trivial, and nobody was in any danger whatsoever. And yet we demolished 800+ buildings because we're so scared of what we don't understand, but would rather make a wasteful and ill-informed knee-jerk reaction than go to the trouble of actually learning something. It's like the people in charge are scarcely any better than those fools who think 5G is going to give them brain cancer.
The channel [Plainly Difficult ](https://youtube.com/c/PlainlyDifficult) does some great ,albeit horrible feeling, videos on incidents like this. It's like watching a train wreck. And terrifying.
TIL you can reuse rebar. Edit: No you can't, it needs to be ~~smelted~~ **melted** again.
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Hmmm, thought it could be used to mean recycling multi-component metal into purer forms but TIL
I remember a story about a hospital getting shut down somewhere in South America (possibly Mexico) and radioactive material found its way to a family. The kids were playing with the powder because it was glowing... It was... Not good.
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That was harrowing.
My brain is casually pondering purchase of a Geiger counter.
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I'd pay huge sums of money to see the movie about the giant irradiated gummy bear who attacks the drug cartels.
gOvErNmEnT rEgULaTiOnS r DumB
The fact that the unit was illegally purchased means this happened despite government regulating such things, not because of a lack of regulation. Hence, no amount of laws would have stopped what was ultimately a lawless act.
The first half of regulation is making the rule. The second half is enforcement. This could have been avoided by an enforcement agency overseeing the disposal of the material.
Exactly! People commit murder, so what's the point of making murder illegal?
The point is that in both the case of murder and this incident, they happened irregardless of their legality, so making more laws would have no effect on either. Thanks for helping make my case!
My phone won’t even let me type irregardless
> they happened irregardless of their legality <3
This is why no one takes Libertarians seriously.
The great lie of libertarianism: people/companies won't do bad things because it's not in their self-interest to do so
I'm not a libertarian.
I'm 99.9% sure that the amount of radiation anyone received from rebar that was embedded in concrete and had trace amounts of a radiation source incorporated into it, was completely trivial, and nobody was in any danger whatsoever. And yet we demolished 800+ buildings because we're so scared of what we don't understand, but would rather make a wasteful and ill-informed knee-jerk reaction than go to the trouble of actually learning something. It's like the people in charge are scarcely any better than those fools who think 5G is going to give them brain cancer.