r/technology • u/ourlifeintoronto • Sep 10 '23

Transportation Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.article
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u/KayleighJK Sep 10 '23

The children yearn for the volcano mines.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

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u/currynord Sep 10 '23

Rock and stone, brother

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u/MightyFerguson Sep 11 '23

ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE!

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?!?!

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u/dude_catastrophe Sep 11 '23

IF YOU DONT ROCK AND STONE, YOU AINT GOING HOME

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u/Gingerjake1993 Sep 11 '23

RROOOOCCCKKK AND SSSSTTTTOOOONNNE!

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u/deathschemist Sep 11 '23

ROCK AND STONE!

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u/GundamMaker Sep 11 '23

You got business with Isengard tonight?

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u/Brentolio12 Sep 10 '23

I got the black lung pop

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u/-Shasho- Sep 10 '23

Dammit Derek, you've been down there for one day. Come and talk to me in 30 years!

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

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u/tyrfingr187 Sep 11 '23

Yes let us dig deeper deeper into the great void below

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u/kaukamieli Sep 11 '23

We do not fear what lies beneath

We can never dig too deep

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u/morg-pyro Sep 11 '23

I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole

Diggy diggy hole Diggy diggy hole!

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u/krumble Sep 11 '23

drums... drums in the deep.

we cannot get out.

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u/Delicious_Ad9970 Sep 11 '23

That goes well with your avatar, looks eyeless

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u/tyrfingr187 Sep 11 '23

He has seen so much and understood so little.

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u/ee3k Sep 11 '23

BROTHERS OF THE MINE REJOICE,

RAISE YOUR PICK AND RAISE YOUR VOICE!

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u/danielravennest Sep 11 '23

"The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm... shadow and flame."

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u/fuzzytradr Sep 11 '23

cough..cough

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u/padraigtherobot Sep 10 '23

Damnit Derek, I’m a coal miner not a professional television and film actor

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u/jetpack_hypersomniac Sep 11 '23

Moisture is the essence of wetness, wetness is the essence…of beauty

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u/Vileath2 Sep 11 '23

You’re dead to me boy, more dead to me than your dead mother.

I’m just glad your mother died before she saw her son become a mermaid.

uhk ughk merman! Dad merman!

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u/reddcaesarr Sep 11 '23

Black lung pop was a bad dude…

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u/Ok-Professional-5370 Sep 11 '23

Obsidian lungs got to be quicker than mesothelioma though right?

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u/Luminox Sep 11 '23

Only popcorn lung now child.

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u/CollegeMiddle6841 Sep 11 '23

Dry cough coff!

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_COY_NUDES Sep 11 '23

Mer-man. (cough cough cough) Mer-MAN!

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u/NinjaQuatro Sep 11 '23

Black Lung is so last century. plastic lung is where it is at.

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u/umbrabates Sep 10 '23

Let’s not make this political. Some of us are in favor of the jobs the meteor will bring.

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u/raygar31 Sep 11 '23

My jaw dropped a little at that one. And it wasn’t even unrealistic at all either.

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u/Kazumadesu76 Sep 11 '23

Agreed! It'll be so nice to send our kids to the meteor mines doin the Lord's work instead of getting one of those demonic liberal edumications.

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u/razeal113 Sep 11 '23

The US sits on some of the largest reserves of minerals, oils, etc in the world and yet comparably mines very little.

We could mine and make things in the US, where we have strict regulations and human rights laws, but instead it will continue to be done in the third world. Humorously the same people crying over human rights and climate change also argue for less local mining and manufacturing which would improve both

This story will quickly be forgotten, and the West will continue to get it's minerals from places like the congo, where mining looks like this

https://youtu.be/Hmqf0L52rD8?si=I-Lowgc1PxN9u8oJ

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u/Chip057 Sep 11 '23

Thats the irony of US policy. We push more and more for less use of internal combustion engines and more electric vehicles and yet restrict more and more the ability to open mines. Both of those can't be true, we need one or the other.

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u/Moon_Atomizer Sep 11 '23 edited Sep 11 '23

The only practical solution would be to take the US minimum wage (adjusted for purchasing power parity) and EU human rights / environmental law and apply it worldwide under threat of Cuba style sanctions from all western countries.

We can never achieve this though because let's be real the US can't even get its citizens healthcare now, why would it care about the future of humanity worldwide? Also the EU and the UK can't even agree on commerce between each other, why would they care about miners in the Congo? Also once our supply chain guarantees the bare minimum for workers to live and sustainability, the true cost of the first world lifestyle will come and the people will revolt when their electronics double in price.

It's a pipe dream, so instead the world will be filled with toxic waste and forever chemicals.

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u/Kazumadesu76 Sep 11 '23

Damn... You mean if we can't put our children in there mines because of those pesky human rights issues, then we won't be able to find anyone to work in them?

How about we... Oh, I don't know, pay willing adults to go do it, instead of trying to exploit children.

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u/BearHammer77 Sep 11 '23

Rock and stone brother

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u/blacksideblue Sep 11 '23

Stop looing up, it'll come to us...

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u/anormalgeek Sep 11 '23

Get a job at a butcher shop. It doesn't get much meateor than that.

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u/Musicferret Sep 10 '23

But then who will work in the acid mines? Their little hands are so well suited to it!

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u/davetronred Sep 11 '23

It's ok, we've moved that acid processing plant over to the lithium mine. The acid wastes are just dumped right in there, so everyone gets to share!

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u/sillybandland Sep 11 '23

Sarah Huckabee Sanders liked this

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

They won't work in the mines, they'll work in the laundry next door. That's why they're covered in mine dust, from the dirty clothes you see.

They just look 12. They come from one of those countries where they don't have growth hormone enriched meat and HFCS laden pop to make they big.

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u/westberry82 Sep 11 '23

My daughter just learned how to walk. Asked if she was ready for the mines. I said she had to wait until she wasn't wearing a diaper.

She questioned me " why? The men that make the laws saying I need to work the mines wear diapers?" - me " well bc I said so"

I can't believe I lost an argument to a 3 year old.

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u/HuskyLogan Sep 11 '23

She only learned how to walk at 3 years old?

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u/westberry82 Sep 11 '23

Yeah. She was born without legs only a tail. Then we prayed and she grew legs and the tail fell off. Life's a miracle huh?

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u/KwordShmiff Sep 11 '23

You should have just prayed for more tails.

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u/Don_Tiny Sep 11 '23

A tail old as time.

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u/westberry82 Sep 11 '23

Right! Mermaid kids would be amazing!

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u/hello_hellno Sep 11 '23

What's a miracle is how you wrote that with a straight face thinking anyone would buy your bullshit. Cute story but that's an old joke- also 1) why you putting your 3 year-old up for job postings... in mines? 2) she's handicapped so learnt to talk late (according to your your life story), yet she has the intellect and reasoning skills of grown adult? 3) if you need your three-year old in the mines to make ends meet, I sure hope as fuck you don't have TV or other "luxuries" like radio laying around so she could understand politics before w......

Before......

Oh wow i'm the idiot lol. I missed a line in your reply and to me it totally read like you were trying to sell this thing off and everyone was jumping on-board for some fabricated happy story.

I learnt how silk was made today man, I'm ready to take life on, headstrong.

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u/westberry82 Sep 11 '23

Sorry. Wanna get bacon and waffles? If not I'm gonna keep watching star trek

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u/hello_hellno Sep 12 '23

Yes to both. Lol. Thanks for being chill! I debated deleting the rant before posting then I thought it wouldn't be fair to rob the world of something so gloriously dumb

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u/Chren Sep 11 '23

Her name wouldnt happen to be Polly would it

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u/westberry82 Sep 11 '23

Nah named her fantasy . Bc you know.

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u/wishtherunwaslonger Sep 11 '23

At least your daughter is smarter than your dumb ass. I called that a win if I’ve ever seen one.

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u/Kolby_Jack Sep 11 '23

At least your daughter is smarter than your dumb ass.

Oh, the irony.

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u/westberry82 Sep 11 '23

Well I did lose an argument to her. Also don't we all hope our kids live a better life than us? So yeah... I'm blessed

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u/westberry82 Sep 11 '23

Also she's not real. Only a joke set up that you didn't get- dumb ass.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

They yearn for the Juffo Wup

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u/boborena2 Sep 11 '23

All those happy campers will get their lithium

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u/geno604 Sep 11 '23

The dwellers of the Mohorovichic

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u/owa00 Sep 11 '23

You are now a mod of /r/capitalism...

You are now banned from /r/OSHA...

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

I know this is pedantic, and your joke was high quality, but is there an MSHA sub?

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u/TakedownCorn Sep 11 '23

I read this in a Werner Herzog voice.

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u/AceJZ Sep 10 '23

Thanks I spit out my drink laughing.

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u/Kindly_Education_517 Sep 11 '23

they already got 12 & 13 year olds working in slaughterhouse around the US so I wont be surprised

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

They fit down smaller holes and their tiny bodies use less oxygen.

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u/ProgrammaticallySale Sep 11 '23

If Republicans have their way, the children will be yearning to get out of the volcano mines.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/opinion/child-labor-laws.html

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u/MKULTRATV Sep 11 '23

Only the weak and ill-disciplined children, maybe.

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u/Mcboomsauce Sep 11 '23

i havent laughed this hard in weeks 🤣

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u/erapuer Sep 11 '23

in 1920 we took children out of the coal mines

in 2020, the most popular video game on the market is minecraft.

the children yearn for the mines

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u/this_dudeagain Sep 11 '23

Soon, Kali Ma will rule the world.

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u/KayleighJK Sep 11 '23

My favorite Hindu deity because her name kinda sounds like mine and she’s always depicted looking completely insane.

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u/Turbulent-Tie9971 Sep 11 '23

Legendary comment.

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u/the-stoned-Eng Sep 11 '23

So Valaria before the doom?

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u/GrizzlyHerder Sep 11 '23

The Lithium battery industry, and electric car industry, and hundreds of other lithium-based industries just emitted a HUGE sigh.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

This is great news for my volcano base plans!

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

Don't tell Elon Musk

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u/Kryptosis Sep 11 '23

They tire of sunlight and compensation. Open air makes them feel exposed.

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u/cowabungass Sep 11 '23

I can already hear the propaganda.

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u/JEveryman Sep 11 '23

The tech industry must have their sacrifice.

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u/Bezulba Sep 11 '23

All those yearning for the return of coal mines can all be recruited to do this work because that's exactly what they wanted when voting for Trump, right? Right?

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u/RuairiSpain Sep 11 '23

Elon buys the land and enslaves the local kids

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u/OkayArt199 Sep 11 '23

Gotta bring the minors back to the mines