vodka

And cetacean in front of it is whales, so whale killing virus.

Assuming the full name of this strain of the virus is Cetacean Morbilliviris

Apparently it's a semi common thing for jewelry store workers to do.

Me on January 2nd

The fact that it was almost 20c in Oslo the other day, in the middle of December sure is something.

Yes

like, 5 users.

One of which keeps making new accounts at different instances and I have to keep blocking them...

The issue is that nobody has found a way to refine it in a way that isn't extremely polluting without the cost being extremely excessive and making it entirely pointless.

We could mine as much as we want, but the only country OK with refining this stuff is China. Unless we solve the issue of refining this in a relatively clean way at a somewhat competitive price, no refining will ever be set up in Europe.

The issue with this is that there's plenty of rare earth minerals (they're not rare) all around the world, it's the refining process that is expensive and extremely polluting.

Doesn't matter if Norway found decades worth of supply, when nobody but China is willing to build the processing plants. And China has more than enough rare earth mineral supplies themselves.

Sadly many go straight to heroin then to crack after a morphine addiction due to injury and such, and don't actually go through any "softer" drugs.

You're not thinking about when Microsoft bribed their way into them not switching by opening an office in the area?

Literally says so in the article. Maybe read it?

For me it's all the winter dormant insects in the tree that wake up once the tree is inside a warm home that makes me never want a real tree.