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 :/
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
See https://lemmy.world/comment/13252949 I haven’t tested it myself though
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
In theory he isn’t allowed to. Practically he is, which is just as bad IMO
Yeah, no idea how I didn’t read that part 😅🤦
I doubt all his equip etc. will be enough to cover the 1 billion. So any and all patreon income could be confiscated as well.
Have you looked at him? His whole personality is kompromat.
Try out boost (for Lemmy), and if you like it there’s a small one time payment option to support the Dev and remove ads
Customers. Seriously, how absolutely incapable are some people. I wish I could force some of them to write down all the questions they have, make them watch a 5 minute YouTube video and then only bother me if they still need help. Jesus Christ it’s a hardware store not kindergarten where I’ll take you by the hand and tell you not to eat the crayons.
It’s a packaging bug, the headline is false.
Even Thunderbird has a better spam filter after you train it for a few days.
Yeah I think switching it around would make more sense
Nazi ideology is never an opinion. It’s a threat to human rights and democracy.