How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet (www.youtube.com)
from sexy_peach@feddit.org to technology@beehaw.org on 28 May 2025 10:18
https://feddit.org/post/13217924

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.

#technology

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[deleted] on 28 May 2025 11:58 next collapse

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dabaldeagul@feddit.nl on 28 May 2025 13:13 next collapse

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.

sqgl@beehaw.org on 28 May 2025 13:33 collapse

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

Powderhorn@beehaw.org on 28 May 2025 14:02 next collapse

There is an element of truth.

sqgl@beehaw.org on 28 May 2025 15:29 collapse

Well played :)

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

Powderhorn@beehaw.org on 28 May 2025 15:56 collapse

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.

sqgl@beehaw.org on 28 May 2025 16:31 collapse

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.

MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net on 28 May 2025 15:49 collapse

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

sqgl@beehaw.org on 28 May 2025 16:33 next collapse

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

Kissaki@beehaw.org on 29 May 2025 08:11 collapse

Seeing him on German TV in a documentary was surprising.

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io on 28 May 2025 14:58 collapse

DuPont is the company.

sexy_peach@feddit.org on 28 May 2025 17:10 collapse

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

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io on 28 May 2025 18:29 collapse

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