A whistleblower wrote us late last year to report that “CSA and ANSI approved [safety] glasses are consistently failing their tests.” That is, what the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) had approved as 100% UV blocking glasses weren’t blocking UV at all.
We wrote about this in November, inviting the public to test their CSA approved glasses. We gave some rudimentary instructions on how to test and linked to some more substantive guidance. We also promised to report whatever results we received early in 2021.
Well folks, this is the report.
Gab has had a massive leak, like, everything, ever:
https://www.rt.com/usa/516848-gab-user-data-hacked/
Let’s see how Twitter applies it’s ban on posting Hacked Materials when it comes to the private messages of people they don’t like. Anyone wanna put money on fair application of the rules?
I thought GAB was de-centralized. If that is true, How could one get all this data without hacking into multiple servers? Either Wired or Torbas is lying. Seeing as Torbas seems to say that this did in fact happen, I guess he was lying when he said that GAB is actually de-centralized, and all this user data was and is in fact stored on one server.
Decentralized distribution is not the same thing as decentralized data is not the same thing as data not being collatable.
Let’s say a large corporation offers their workers really fancy looking “impact protection” gloves. The workers are encouraged to use them as much as they need them.
How generous! They must really care about worker safety!
In the background, maybe the same corporation has bought a Chinese company that makes these fancy gloves for less than a dollar a pair in large volumes. The corporation could then “buy” the gloves from the Chinese subsidiery at over $25USD a pair. This would allow them to write off a considerable amount of profits and tax dollars which are made during production.
I’m not sure the glasses are failing their tests, it’s just that the tests aren’t what you think they are. There’s a very narrow and very convoluted technical bureaucratic definition of what constitutes UV rays and if you think their definition has any relationship to a common-sense definition you don’t know a thing about how government, bureaucracies, or regulatory agencies operate. Almost always, regulatory agencies are run by the industries the regulatory agencies are ostensibly regulating. After all, you need experts to write the regulations and who’s more expert than the industry itself? And this is why you have this revolving door between government and industry – a nice cushy job in government is nice, but when you go straight from writing the rules to advising companies how to evade the rules at ten times the salary, well, that’s much nicer than nice.
They should switch and make vaccines, it’s the new “it girl” of the mad money world, no testing or regulations required.
I agree that the CSA is a vile pit of cronyism and an extortion racket, but those “tests” are pure bunk.
As a heavy equipment operator working in the Ft Mac area sites and on other major construction and infrastructure projects in the country, we are mandated to wear the glasses which are supplied by the company we work for or have to purchase our own if we require prescription glasses.
As companies, especially those throttling back oil and support industries, are constantly seeking new ways to reduce costs, finding cheaper PPE products are helping reduce the bottom line bleed.
That said, now I have to do some research and look after my own safety and protection for my peepers, and therefore extending my longevity to perform my tasks in the field.
My guess is that there won’t be any emails or communications from the glasses companies explaining that their glasses are compliant to the letter of the law but are actually an extreme health risk for the users of their products. Here I believed that the glasses I relied upon to protect my eyes from snowblindness are in fact magnifying the damage being done to them (if the glasses are the cheater kind, which I now have to investigate and confirm to be defective)
Everything up north is trying to kill us there, everything.
If you look at most of the regs, from the CSA to the FDA, you will realize that they are indeed there to protect the manufacturers, not the consumers.
YeahWell, ….yeah, well!
That ain’t exactly news friend. All the safety shit that is forced on workers these days, ain’t for the well being of said workers, it’s to cover the asses of the employers.
Yup. Take this scenario:
Man is blinded by an arc explosion.
Employer says “We met or exceeded all safety regs”
Retailer of safety glasses says “Manufacturer labeled them 100% UV blockers”
Manufacturer of safety glasses says “We met or exceeded all safety regs.”
Regulator says “No one could have foreseen this.”
Politician says “Don’t blame they system”, and uses the event as a pretext for yet another money/power grab.
…with lawyers racking up billable hours at every step of the buck-passing merry-go-round, Bring on the SMOD.
The article gets the science wrong: UVC is the most dangerous — shortest wavelength implies highest energy photons implies most likely to cause eye damage, cancer, etc.
They’d be horrified to know that the WiFi radiation is the same kind of radiation found in a microwave oven.