don't worry about it.

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[kittycouch]

So excited they cast Scarlett Johansson as Sonic for the new movie 😍 Yas queen, wig !!!

[encourage]

me: thinks about u

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[postmarxed-deactivated20190429]

Cool there’s been asbestos in Johnson & Johnson baby powder this whole time and they have been aware of it for decades and done nothing

[postmarxed-deactivated20190429]

@laeffy yeah you uh. Need to stop doing that immediately and maybe go to the doctor to make sure you don’t have mesothelioma

[angelbabyspice]

this is so fucking sick

[princessnijireiki]

FYI, this applies to talc & talc-based powders / body products in general— J&J knew about this for decades because talc & asbestos occur together naturally (the minerals literally grow together in nature, have similar compositions, and are / were mined together), and they’re difficult to cleanly filter out from each other.

It’s old knowledge that, unless you’re involved in mining, mineralogy, or occupational health & safety, has been deliberately buried from both the public’s and regulators’ knowledge.

CNBC’s article + their writeup on the Reuters report revealing J&J’s cover-ups go into more detail on their corporate liability and the impact of J&J’s products specifically…

…But I cannot overstate that people’s best option right now is to look for products in general that do not contain talc at all, regardless of the manufacturer, and to be vigilant in seeking appropriate healthcare (and/or legal action if required) if symptoms arise.

This goes for body use (diaper powder, chafing powder— this is where the cases of ovarian cancer are coming from), for any use where powder may be inhaled (hair, face), or will have prolonged exposure to mucus membranes (eye makeup, bath bombs, etc.).

J&J are not the only ones who have covered this data up, and companies that aren’t sued will absolutely continue to do so. Be safe & be vigilant.

[geoclaire]

Okay - I spent five years doing asbestos cleanup and risk assessment. I’m qualified, I know a bunch about it.

Short version: this is fucked up and not okay.

HOWEVER. The evidence is that the asbestos was “trace amounts” where it existed. And I know they teach you to think otherwise, specifically because people were too casual about asbestos exposure, but the truth is that asbestos danger is cumulative. The more you’re exposed to, the worse it is.

Technically, one fibre is enough. But in reality, one exposure to one fibre is very, very unlikely to mess you up. Your body is very good at getting rid of things that want to kill you. The much greater danger is if you are exposed day in and day out to large amounts, particularly if you smoke. Asbestos exposure and cigarette smoke behave synergistically, the risk of doing both is much much worse than just adding your risks together.

Other facts: asbestos is naturally occurring in the environment; that’s how the contamination occurred to begin with. It’s a rock. Australia has huge amounts of naturally occurring asbestos, so low level constant exposure, but it’s not a significant health risk. This is partially because (extra important fact) only asbestos fibres of a certain length are actually dangerous. From memory they have to be between five and nine micrometers long to get stuck in your lungs the dangerous way (my units might be wrong, it’s been a while). It’s very hard to get fibres of that length. There have been tests where they put asbestos containing materials into industrial blenders specifically TRYING to get them, and they failed. Most asbestos isn’t dangerous to you. WHO has done a bunch of autopsies of people who died of other things who had lungs full of asbestos fibres and never had a single symptom.

TL;DR: this is fucked up and upsetting, but it’s not a death sentence. We don’t know for sure if the asbestos included was of the dangerous size, and even if it was, the exposure level may be too low to be dangerous. Even if it was both dangerous and high enough, the risk of cancer is still well below fifty percent - I want to say it’s seven percent but I don’t really remember.

Be upset. Get checked out. Sue the bastards. But don’t panic yet.

[astrodidact]

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/12/13/you_are_stealing_our_future_greta

You Are Stealing Our Future: Greta Thunberg, 15, Condemns the World’s Inaction on Climate Change

Fifteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the U.N. plenary last night in Katowice, Poland, condemning global inacti

[hamiltonbeachblender-deactivate]

[mobpsycho100]

Mob Psycho 100 II PV 2 / Air date: January 7th 2019

[cephalotodd-deactivated20190310]

At the doctors just got diagnosed with huge meat…. it’s incurable

[logarto]

you should sue your doc for criminal incompetence

[cephalotodd-deactivated20190310]

logan shut the fuck up there are girls here dude

[smashing-yng-man]

[socialistexan]

Meanwhile, Roger Waters, the guy that literally wrote the album The Wall is doing this at his concerts:

This is on the level of Paul Ryan saying he liked Rage Against the Machine and then having Tom Morello telling him to fuck off.

[the-penandpaper]

Link to info of Crystul Kizer’s Case

[socialistexan]

Europeans: “I don’t understand you Americans, if your working conditions, wages, and social safety net are so bad, why do you not simply unionize or strike?”

Americans:

[afloweroutofstone]

Also there’s literally so many restrictions on unions and strikes at this point that striking on any significant scale is nearly de facto illegal

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD ABOUT THE LUDLOW MASSACRE, WHY WASN’T I TAUGHT THIS IN CLASS

[tiredngay]

20gayteen is almost over. then we’ll have 20biteen. but what will we do for 2020

[moneyes]

we vote.

[afniel]

We vote.

[whenemmafallsinlove]

yo guys if you live in the US and use regular absorbency U by kotex sleek tampons please throw them away. they’re currently under recall in america because they’re coming apart in people and leaving pieces which puts you at a huge risk for toxic shock syndrome.

im gonna go ahead and plug the diva cup right now which i live and breathe by. i’ve never had any issues with it and i’m totally open to talking about it!

please be safe y’all!

[midnight-kfc]

Not just the US: the recall is in Canada, too. You can find out if any that you’ve purchased are part of the recall right here. 

[highdio]

EPISODE 11 NARANCIA TEASE!  Looks like we get some backstory!

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[i-like-ness-and-them]

fuck

[kaizo-ningen-deactivated2021100]

[bogleech]

Trump quietly shuts down HIV cure research to appease the religious right

“This effectively stops all of our research to discover a cure for HIV,” one researcher says, after Trump "paused" his experiments in a nod to anti-abortion activists.

Part of attempts to ban all research that involves human fetal tissue, because the superstitious feelings of anti-choice fanatics over useless, garbage corpse flesh is apparently more important than any number of entire human lives.

[bad-4chan-literature]