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

[–] [email protected] 72 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

If only it was just that 1 dude

[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Radium stands for radically yummy

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

I always buy Ray-D-YUM brand radium!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It is based on real people. Those girls are why many of the labor laws we have in the US exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Radium paint was used on watches into the 70s despite what happened to the radium girls in the 20s-30s.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is some Fallout Nuka-Cola shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

These kinds of stories are exactly where Fallout themes came from.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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

[+] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People out here skimming

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Motherfuckers trying to skim uphill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Jaws are part of the skull

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

All the remaining bone tissue of his body was slowly disintegrating

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That story is a wild ride.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Radditor

[+] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Faintly glowing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

No head?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Some ironic ads on that page