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Like a pediatrician rounding on cystic fibrosis children in the hospital and smoking at their bedside. That's what the early 1980s were like. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm still convinced that lead poisoning was the catalyst for the fall of the Roman empire. And they weren't even breathing tainted air constantly.

We still use lead pipes for water infrastructure in many areas of the country for fucks sake.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: ancient and medieval societies had so much fucking lead around because lead is commonly found in silver ore (galena), usually around 100X more plentiful than the silver and it melts at a lower temperature. So the quest for silver produced huge amounts of lead as a byproduct and people found uses for it like roofs, water pipes and, uh, sweeteners? Jesus Christ, Rome.