Rare earth elements (REEs) are essential to the so-called green economy, used for everything from smartphones and tablets to electric vehicles and wind turbines.
“Once a product leaves North America and is destined for China, you no longer see that product coming back, you only see the final product, a phone, a car, a wind turbine — you would never see the actual material come back,” Hussein adds.
You know what this reminds me of? What happens when you send raw materials Down South to the USA. When the uranium mined in Saskatchewan goes to the USA, does it come back in anything but final products? What about the other metals and minerals that go to the USA? Anybody ever seen it come back in raw form?
Sounds like it’s time to start building infrastructure for public transit so that 2035 doesn’t hit like a lead brick. Except of course this will last all of about five seconds after the first Con government gets voted in.
I have a 词海 hanging around. That’s a single-volume dictionary of every word in the (modern) Chinese language. It doesn’t qualify to be a pocket book for certain and not even a handbook. It belongs on a podium like a medieval tome.
As recently confirmed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation in Ukraine-Russia peace talks this could have been avoided if the US and UK hadn’t scuttled a deal in the spring of 2022. David Arakhamia, who is now parliamentary leader of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party, said Russia was prepared to end the war...
The Earth is burning around us as a slo-mo climate catastrophe builds up unstoppably. Fascists and other authoritarians are ramping up to take control of people around the world (with a major party in Canada, even, hiring an open fascist into its leadership). Canadian essentials prices are reaching the point where the practically the entire nation is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the basic needs of food and shelter. There’s a genocide going on in Gaza after a mass murder was done against Israelis. The people of Ukraine are still fighting off an invader that the world let get cocky and arrogant enough to decide to invade.
But the CBC is bravely fighting to expose a has-been entertainer.
Bravo, CBC! Only you have the journalistic integrity to do deep investigative journalism on issues that don’t matter at all! Keep up the great, tax-funded work!
Wouldn’t it be better to boost long-term personal residence ownership? Boosting the number of people renting is just a way, it seems, of exacerbating the heart of the housing problem.
He was arrested before the Meng thing happened, so the arrest was not dubiously political. The upgrading to the death sentence, however, was very clearly a pressure tactic of dubious politics.
Yep. Regardless of what your position is on drugs (and I’m in the “legalize and license most of them” camp), it’s well known that the Chinese government (for very valid, albeit unfortunate, historical reasons) has absolutely no tolerance for the recreational narcotics industry and that this includes the death penalty.
You’d have to be a very special kind of stupid to traffic drugs in China, or any number of other countries with similar policies.
And make no mistake. The Chinese government is bad. It’s just bad in ways that the western governments and press don’t actually give a shit about so they make up other shit instead.
In 2001, when I left Canada, I had fond memories of Tim Horton’s donuts and other confections. In 2016 when I went back for some paperwork and stayed a month I was absolutely shocked at just how crap Tim Horton’s donuts had become: stale, lifeless, and oversugared/underflavoured. (I’d never liked the coffee so I didn’t try it.)
I had a great place to get roasted-on-premises coffee, but the guy who ran it got me interested in the process, ran a course in how to do it, and then sold the equipment to do it. I’m a nerd. Of course I nerded out and started doing it myself!
So a photo staged after the event for the news report is your evidence he was blocking the sidewalk before the newsworthy event was happening.
You’re an idjit. Go crawl back under the bridge you call home.
(For those of you who are not this idjit: when a photographer is waiting for proper lighting, they generally don’t sit there with all their equipment out, tripod legs spread, etc., precisely because they don’t know when—or even if—the lighting will go their way. They just stand to one side, using a minimal footprint, waiting for the right conditions before they snap out the equipment to take their shot. This guy is talking out of his asshole. By which I mean out of himself.)
If you don’t know that P.E.I. is Prince Edward Island and feel compelled to share your brilliant discovery, you probably don’t belong in a discussion group about Canada on a Canadian-hosted Lemmy server.
The OHRC said while caste is not a prescribed protected category, it is covered by international human rights law and hence, can be protected under the Ontario Human Rights Code.
I like dogs like I like toddlers. It’s fun to hang out with other people’s for a while, but ultimately they’re annoying, loud, and make a mess. I feel like in the past 10 years or so, dog owners have become increasingly convinced that everyone thinks their slobbering, untrained mutt is god’s gift to everyone, and expects...
Now that Bandcamp has had huge layoffs, what about an opensource, Fediverse-friendly replacement? What can a FOSS product bring to the community and do better than Bandcamp?...
When a transaction has failed due to an “Out of Gas” error, this means the gas limit set for a transaction is below the required gas needed to execute it. The transaction value does not leave your address but gas fee is deducted because of the computational cost incurred.
You pay the gas fee whether your transaction goes through or not. What. A. Fucking. Scam.
YOU touted Ethereum. Then you talked about “one cent songs”.
Be at least a little consistent in pushing your scam? I mean this constant whirling around is just making you dizzy and making your scam ever so obvious to onlookers.
Right. You don’t. Because Monero is obstinately opaque in its operations. You’re taking it on faith (or, rather, you’re trying to make sure you’re not the bottom of the pyramid when everything goes to Hell).
Right. Ethereum is not an “organization”. It’s several organizations (like the Ethereum Foundation, say) with suspicious overlap in membership (like Vitalik Buterin, say) whose top 100 ETH addresses (out of about what? a quarter million? a third of a million?) own ~40% of the ETH making them one motherfucking powerful voting bloc. (Even Bitcoin, with some whales that are making people look askance at it, has only about 14% held in the top 100 addresses!)
And this doesn’t even begin to address the clusterfuck that is the enormous problem of PoS having “the rich get richer” built into its very core.
…you don’t need to use NFTs or smart contracts if you don’t want to
Agreed. And indeed you don’t need to use any cryptoscam bullshit at all. Which is what most people do. Because most people aren’t clueless idiots and can actually smell a scam. The cryptoshills are obvious scammers at the level of Nigerian Princes-in-Exile!
Here’s a suggestion for you, Sparky. Why don’t you toddle off back to nostr where the rest of your cryptobro buddies and their victims hang out instead of trying to infect yet another domain with your criminal scam?
Yes. Brilliant plan! Take the creatives’ time spent on making art and have them decode every single fucking crypto scam’s procedures, security models, etc.! That way they’ll be so distracted by the bullshit choices placed before them they won’t realize that a) none of them are good choices, and b) they’ve not actually created anything since they started dealing with all that horseshit.
Nostr is thataway, Sparky. Go talk to your fellow cryptobros.
I know, right? “I don’t really care if people know I’m different or not so I’m going to post loudly and proudly how different I am and then whine that people are downvoting me for not being able to read a room and understand concepts like ‘appropriate spaces’ and such.”
Because posting your difference shows not caring. And whining when people express distaste is not caring.
Investment deal sends stockpiled minerals from NWT rare earths mine to China (globalnews.ca)
Rare earth elements (REEs) are essential to the so-called green economy, used for everything from smartphones and tablets to electric vehicles and wind turbines.
Canada to announce all new cars must be zero emissions by 2035 (www.reuters.com)
What is the thickest book you own?
What is the thickest book on your shelf?
Canada pushing unwinnable war harms Ukrainians (rabble.ca)
As recently confirmed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation in Ukraine-Russia peace talks this could have been avoided if the US and UK hadn’t scuttled a deal in the spring of 2022. David Arakhamia, who is now parliamentary leader of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party, said Russia was prepared to end the war...
Buffy Sainte-Marie pushes back against CBC investigation (www.cbc.ca)
Federal housing minister floats Airbnb crackdown to boost long-term rental supply (www.cbc.ca)
If you looked closely, you could have guessed why China arrested the Two Michaels (rabble.ca)
Is this true, Canada? (lemmy.world)
Found in Manchester, UK.
My absolute favourite prog rock album - Leaving the Land by Sisare (Links in post) (lemmy.world)
Youtube Link: youtu.be/Y2L7q9WiBSs...
P.E.I. photographer handcuffed, fined after taking pictures of Quebec City's iconic Château Frontenac | CBC (www.cbc.ca)
Trustable distributed voting in the Fediverse
Anyone here into cryptosystems? Electronic voting? I would be interested in a solution to the following problems or some variants....
Batterygate is stupid
Apple slowing down devices to extend battery life when the battery itself is low or degraded is awesome....
What is caste discrimination? A closer look at new Ontario human rights ruling (globalnews.ca)
The OHRC said while caste is not a prescribed protected category, it is covered by international human rights law and hence, can be protected under the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Disabled man drags himself off plane after Air Canada fails to offer wheelchair (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/584100...
Gettin real goddamn tired of dogs
I like dogs like I like toddlers. It’s fun to hang out with other people’s for a while, but ultimately they’re annoying, loud, and make a mess. I feel like in the past 10 years or so, dog owners have become increasingly convinced that everyone thinks their slobbering, untrained mutt is god’s gift to everyone, and expects...
Bandcamp... What now?
Now that Bandcamp has had huge layoffs, what about an opensource, Fediverse-friendly replacement? What can a FOSS product bring to the community and do better than Bandcamp?...
As ‘sober curious’ trend grows, major brands tap into non-alcoholic drinks - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)