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Oerthling t1_jb9kn3j wrote

That stupid talking point again.

Bad working conditions around cobalt extraction need to be fixed, regardless of EV production.

Every kind of product uses resources. The materials used in ICE cars, buses or even trains don't fall from trees.

We should use less cars overall, move more people in more efficient vehicles, avoid needles business trips by moving meetings online. But the vehicles that eventually remain will be electric. ICE needs to die.

The "think of the cobalt" argument is probably from the same fossil think tank that gave us such classics as "wind turbines are killing all the birds" (a tiny fraction compared to the genocidal numbers cats murder each year).

I'm waiting for "solar panels steal sunshine" or whatever.

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Wartymcballs t1_jb9icww wrote

It all depends on how big the predator is, how big the prey is, how much they consumed and was metabolized before predation. It doesn't magically kill anything that eats it or there'd be dead cats in every street of every city. The older generation of rodenticides were quite lethal to secondary ingestion though, that's for damn sure. Additionally, technically speaking, according to the manufacturer, the rodents are supposed to lose consciousness from the anti coagulant well before death, it isn't a pain inducer.

Also, the article is biased in the same way a company using a rodenticide is in the opposite direction. Sensationalism exists.

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HKSculpture t1_jb9hr5i wrote

"Unreal corruption" is about the right descriptor for Estonia that is ranked 14th least corrupt in the world with Canada and Iceland by 2023. Because there is very little really. While Ukraine on the other hand has problems with corruption it doesn't happen overnight that you shed the Russian influence and get to do things right. So, yes - nothing really to see here other than liberal parties gaining power in EE and UA fighting for it's life.

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