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Slavery, human trafficking and child labour: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara
Toxic waste killing animals: https://www.afrik21.africa/en/niger-chinese-gold-mines-closed-after-the-death-of-around-fifty-animals/ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20240505-chinese-owned-gold-mines-in-niger-ordered-shut-after-herders-report-animal-deaths
Labour violations, stealing land: https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/locals-slam-zimbabwe-for-turning-a-blind-eye-to-chinese-miners-violations/
What. You do realize that China has made multiple extortionist contacts with African nations in exchange for infrastructure, while they get mining rights and no supervision to continue their slavery? Depending on the source they have like twice as much mining capacity compared to all Western nations combined.
I switched my petrol insert out for a single burner gas one, but there are a lot of inserts, even from zippo itself.
My ex-wife got me an engraved Zippo I used to carry everywhere, now it's mostly on my desk because I don't want to lose it at work :/
24 SEALs in the compound, I misremembered though, he's the only one claiming it for himself, other teammates said it was an unnamed point man.
Proprietary spare parts. The motors might be off the shelf so you could grab parts from a different manufacturer. But controllers and batteries are usually proprietary making repairs much more complicated and cost-inefficient
Claims to have killed Bin Laden, ~~like so many other people.~~ other teammates said it was someone unnamed, and that Bin Laden was already shot when O'Neill entered the room.
Edit: I misremembered.
Nope. They initially added some data scraping parts, and apparently still use some form of telemetry without proper disclosure.
I have a Samsung ultra lux 128 for at least 6 years now, and it's been holding up perfectly. Only the metal sheet above the port got bent a bit.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cf1b2638-a88c-4e46-b67f-49bdc29f09e5.jpeg
so I had to bend it back with a screwdriver, however it actually does lay flat
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e4430220-a86f-4261-bf8d-69b39004e97d.jpeg
next to keys which is pretty nice
