"Between 1,000 to 1,500 stoneworkers in California could develop #silicosis within the next decade, leading to roughly 285 deaths, according to California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA. The state is home to about 5,000 #countertop fabrication workers, predominantly Latino immigrants" https://www.kqed.org/news/12064693/california-doctors-urge-ban-on-engineered-stone-as-silicosis-cases-surge
California Doctors Urge Ban on Engineered Stone as Silicosis Cases Surge

California stoneworkers are becoming severely ill from silica dust exposure from cutting engineered stone, prompting urgent warnings from doctors and workplace safety experts as Australia’s 2024 ban underscores the urgency.

KQED

Before and After

Before…

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…After

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New countertop day. The old countertop was laminate and the new one is granite. I think. Granite, not quartz. Yeah, granite. It’s nice.

I need to mop the kitchen floor.

#counter #counterTop #graniteCounterTop #iphoneography #kitchen #kitchenUpgrade #photography

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Mixing and matching

#ikea #countertop #marble

draft - Luna pearl is bad and countertops closer to solid white are better - and using a Chromebook as a kitchen laptop, while also promoting countertops that are closer to solid white which are easier to spot clean

if a Chromebook is good as a kitchen laptop, then maybe they should promote that

fictional observer: ok

me: anything else to say other than ok

fictional observer: what do you want me to say

me: something like - kitchen counters should be white so that its easier to find crumbs and then like, I guess ants as well

fictional observer: why do you want me to type that, and how does that relate to chromebook

me: you don't see how it relates to chromebooks as a kitchen device

fictional observer: enlighten me

me: my argument would be that something like Luna pearl makes it harder to see crumbs, and ants as well

fictional observer: what does that have to do with chromebook

me: well, if we're talking about using the Chromebook as a kitchen device, we'd want a white surface, where its easy to spot clean,

fictional observer: why

me: why? if its easy to spot clean, then it makes it easy to also just like *see areas that are already clean"* or like, to spot clean, like, I don't want to put my multi hundred dollar laptop / Chromebook on a dirty area or area where there's either crumbs or potentially ants

fictional observer: why

me: because I don't want ants crawling into the effing Chromebook / laptop

does that make sense?

#countertops
#countertop

AVOID THESE 9 EPOXY POUR MISTAKES - UmiFaniオーダーメイド家具製作所

YouTubeで見つけた 「AVOID THESE 9 EPOXY POUR MISTAKES」 の…

UmiFaniオーダーメイド家具製作所

“Je vais acheter la #delonghi elle est plus petite que la #jura.”

Elle est même plus grosse que le KitchenAid qui est n’est pas connu pour être lui même minuscule. Va falloir refaire la cuisine héritée des anciens proprios car 1/ ce carrelage c’est moche et pas pratique 2/ plus de plan de travail et 3/ j’veux mon îlot et ma cuisine ouverte. #firstworldproblems #coffeemachine #countertop

“This is an epidemic of #silicosis — a completely preventable lung disease — in this industry all for the sake of having a fashionable kitchen #countertop,” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-19/why-california-workers-died-of-a-preventable-disease-silicosis
California countertop workers died of silicosis despite years of warnings

The grinding and sanding of synthetic engineered stone exposes workers to high levels of lung-scarring silica. Experts say the health risk should have been clear long before workers began falling ill.

Los Angeles Times