Yeah, they just found it late last year. And still working out how they should bring it up. They’ve made estimates on the amount, i’m not qualified to verify their estimates.

If they can actually bring it up we have security in the materials required to make the research worth it.

But no, we have not dug up all of the ground to get oil. Oil is a lot more liquid than lithium ore. We can pump up the oil without having to excavate the entire surrounding area.

I’m not saying that to defend oil. But the funny part about it is that if they had dug up all of the ground to get it, they would have found their lithium deposits sooner. Because they found it in an oil-field.

You can research all you want, but the periodic table is not changing, and Chinese R&D is decades ahead of the West.

What does that even mean? Do you have any idea how long ago it was since we found the last naturally occurring element? Should we have just stoped all research I the early 1900’s because “the periodic table is not changing”. Dumbest shit I’ve heard all years. And yes, I did hear about Trumps email to Norway. You still win.

It is a lot more complex than “Europe is actually following America more than China in this”.

Europe have very limited lithium deposits compared to China. Europe is trying to be as self sustaining as possible, especially now that the US have shown themselves to be a highly unreliable partner.

So exchanging one dependency for another is a poor lateral move at best.

You can’t just start digging up the entire ground and make car batteries out of all lithium you find.

European universities all over are researching alternative battery technology that doesn’t rely as much on lithium.

There’s this really neat thing called nuclear reactors that produce an enormous amount of energy. It’s only been around for ~70 years but they look promising.

As far as I’m concerned, “threatening” to use your own body in an attempt to raise antibiotic resistant bacteria, is self harm.

You don’t have to agree. That’s fine.

Yeah. So we agree that she’s threatening self harm (minimum) to solicit a response from someone. Emotional manipulation.

I’m glad we managed to argue our way to what we already concluded from the start.

If you are promoting antibiotic resistant bacteria in your body, is that not self harm? I sure think it is.

Not all self harm is cutting, starving, or suicide.

What you just said, is that stopping the treatment early is detrimental to the human race. Did you perhaps mean the opposite?

Otherwise I’m not sure why you’re trying to argue with me that one should fulfill their treatment plan. I already agree.

I’m not attributing malice. I’m calling it for what it is. Emotional manipulation, intentional or not is beyond the point.

Just apply some casual emotional manipulation by suggesting self harm and watch the other person trying to ensure you don’t harm yourself.

Is exactly what “Jessica Fletcher” is suggesting. Please don’t…

I don’t know. Difficult to see on the outside if he removed an internal microphone or not.

You’re not deleting the data. Just the adress to the data.

Still not a kill switch.

I’m just gonna say this. The former head of CIA had his laptop camera taped over. If he doesn’t trust the digital toggle. Neither should you.

Repeat after me. “There is no such thing as a non physical kill switch”