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by rldjbpin 22 days ago
how funny things work - from Napoleon serving his special guests on aluminium utensils [1] to everyone taking it for granted, even treating it as if it is toxic!

cost and availability somehow has a negative correlation to how we treat something.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aluminium#Early_ind...
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Alpha3031 21 days ago
Romans used lead utensils, I don't think that was due to cost.
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rldjbpin 21 days ago
we used to believe lead could be turned into gold, and used it in fuel to paint not too long ago.

hindsight 20/20, maybe i will be proven ignorant about aluminium in the future.

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