Electric vehicles are often presented as a key technology for drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, thus helping curb climate change.
But manufacturing electric cars requires the mining of critical minerals for batteries, like lithium and cobalt, that are largely sourced in developing countries. Local traditional and Indigenous communities say the mining is already harming their way of life, damaging biodiversity, and polluting.
@gerrymcgovern@Mabande someone said EV cars are about preserving the automobile industry not the environment. Which given the evidence rings more true than not. EVs in buses and semis and more trains will do far more on a wide scale than the changes automobiles would bring (like having to rebuild all the roads)
Monopolies aren’t illegal but using monopolistic practices to the detriment of consumers is. Millions are hoping for Live Nation and Ticketmaster to go eat dirt. https://flip.it/YU4kDh
“In a startling concurrence, the justice [Clarence Thomas] faulted Brown v. Board of Education for empowering the court to limit racist redistricting.”
You’d think with the Alito controversy, SCOTUS would keep a low profile for a while.
You’d be wrong.
Justice Alito, writing for the 6-3 majority, essentially said it’s okay to disenfranchise Black voters in South Carolina, disregarding the South Carolina’s Supreme Court that gerrymandering was unconstitutional.
Before anyone gets too weepy, allow me to remind you, or inform you, that the “mom & pop/independent” vet clinics have paid vet techs utterly shit wages for the work they do for decades.
Anyone trying to act like the techs are treated well now and will be hurt so badly by this is at best ignorant and at worst the vet who runs their own clinic and pays their techs shit. https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/112485111728167135
@ferricoxide I’m not commenting on your experience. I’m just saying that it’s not like individually/family owned vets are paying their techs well now, so it’s not like a corporate takeover will change that.
I know more than a few vet techs who are seriously thinking about unionizing
@ferricoxide not at all. Hence me saying that from that angle, the takeovers will be business as usual.
People don’t typically want to unionize when their employers pay and treat them well.
Since you seem to be missing it, the problem I am talking about is vet tech treatment, which given how integral they are to any vet, one would think that is of some importance to you.
@ferricoxide do you think that isn’t happening now? Like dude, the problem is that for the techs, the difference is minimal.
“Low pay, too many hours, shitty benefits…so Tuesday then.”
Like I’m done here because you’re acting like it’s not that way now, reality doesn’t agree with you, and I’m out of the “beating facts into brains” business.