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submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Honestly I found this video in particular hard to watch.

It's a gut-wrenching story and hits heavy because we all know that these companies will never be dismantled and the people within them investigated and ultimately held responsible.

You might have seen this video in your yt recommendations, I don't usually watch veriatsium, but it's worth a watch.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

It's the Veratisium video about PFAS btw.

I use DeArrow and as such didn't recognize the thumbnail or title, but I've seen it - so if anyone else was wondering there you go.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Makes me more likely to watch. Maybe OP isn't aware of Veritasium's reputation.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I love the fact that the channel evolved from dunking on the uninformed public to full blown documentaries.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Seeing him on German TV in a documentary was surprising.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I thought my memory was failing me but it really was low key at the start eh?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

There is an element of truth.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well played :)

I mean that must have been his pun from the outset but it didn't occur to me.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

My first year at the college paper, we had the photo credit in the cutline box in the library filled in as Tungsten J. Smith. The "J" stood for statinum, as in, right the fuck now, playing off tungsten being W on the periodic table. One of the other designers was into chemistry.

WJ getting credited in print introduced me to the problem of using something that at a glance seemed plausible on deadline. This was after my disastrous "just write something" hed on a sports feature of "My leaking heart" that the editor did not revisit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

TIL Tungsten is represented as W on the periodic table. But you lost me with the rest...

The "J" stood for statinum, as in, right the fuck now, playing off tungsten being W on the periodic table.

Bed time here. Maybe I wake up to a humourous reveal here tomorrow.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Yes but it's being produced by companies all over the world. Germany has high concentrations as well from local production.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

What if we lived in a 'Yes and' sort of world?

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