I looked up holoprosencephaly, the rare congenital defect mentioned in the article. Stuff of nightmares.
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#12Speaking of lithium batteries, I heard from some guy on the Business News that the world is oversupplied with lithium. There's enough to last for decades, apparently.
It's the second most common element in the universe.
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#13Speaking of lithium batteries, I heard from some guy on the Business News that the world is oversupplied with lithium. There's enough to last for decades, apparently.
It's the second most common element in the universe.
Lithium isn't in the top 10 most abundant chemical elements in the universe ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elem... ). The most abundant, of course, is hydrogen, making up close to 74% of all the baryonic mass, followed by helium ~24%. Lithium can be fused into heavier elements and the conversion happens efficiently in stellar environments where it is produced.
For every 10^6 atoms of silicon, there are only 10^3 atoms of lithium in the Earth's crust ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth... ).
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#14I've been worrying about how I'll find a phone with a proper keyboard when my current one dies. I knew about the exploitation that went into making electronics, but without cognitive dissonance we wouldn't get anything done.
I think after reading this article, my next phone will be a Fairphone. There are more important things than how easy quickly I can write an email.
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#15Full browser window videos with sound to exploit pity, blaming tech industry. Had Washington Post descend to that yellow press levels? Or it always had at this level?
I didn't feel the video was exploitive. It communicated the reality in a perspective the article couldn't, from the first person point of view of a miner.
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#16I looked up holoprosencephaly, the rare congenital defect mentioned in the article. Stuff of nightmares.
Yes, very sad and tragic for sure.
https://www.genome.gov/12512735/learning-about-holoprosencep...
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#17This reminds me of I, Pencil [1], the story of how a pencil is made. There should be an I, Ethically Sourced Pencil follow up.
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#18Not sure if its possible in a warlord controlled situation, but somehow, it seems like these guys need a union.
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#19Full browser window videos with sound to exploit pity, blaming tech industry. Had Washington Post descend to that yellow press levels? Or it always had at this level?
What's your point? That the article is overdramatizing the issue?
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#20Full browser window videos with sound to exploit pity, blaming tech industry. Had Washington Post descend to that yellow press levels? Or it always had at this level?
What's your point? That the article is overdramatizing the issue?
It's pathos to make more money. Analogue to clickbait. Hollywood-like pity factory. This media popcorn industry is more responsible for exploiting poor africans, not creators of mobile phones.