XPost: alt.unix.geeks   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 22/01/2026 18:05, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 1/22/26 05:03, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >> On 22/01/2026 04:09, c186282 wrote:   
   >>> They ARE popular - and good. Not SURE why tantalum   
   >>>    is SO much better than, say, aluminum however.   
   >>>   
   >> Tantalum used to be used in military grade capacitors because it   
   >> lasted better and took more abuse.   
   >>   
   >>>    And, frankly, I barely give a shit where the tantalum   
   >>>    comes from. Are the people running the mines 'good'   
   >>>    guys or 'bad' guys - or something distinct from the   
   >>>    old Euro defs of such things ? The world isn't all   
   >>>    about US.   
   >>   
   >> The US experience can be summarised in three words   
   >>   
   >> Ignorance is Bliss.   
   >   
   >   
   >    Don't knock it  :-)   
   I wasn't....   
      
   >   
   >    And NEVER ask where yer food comes from.   
   >   
   >    'Evil' people and 'evil' ways are involved in   
   >    getting almost everything we need want and use.   
   >    Drop the 'white guilt' bullshit. Yer morning   
   >    coffee is picked by de-facto slaves in S.America,   
   No. well paid workers in Kenya...   
      
   >    yer diamond ring was mined by de-facto slaves   
   >    in S.Africa.   
      
   I don't have a diamond ring or any jewellery in fact   
      
   >   Your ballpark hot-dog is goop   
   >    left over from shredding animals.   
   So what. I don't eat hot dogs and there are no ball parks here (hint:   
   ignorance is bliss)   
      
   >   Your infrastructure   
   >    is tended by imports/illegals treated as de-facto   
   >    slaves at various times and places.   
      
   It isn't.   
      
   >    Yer lithium batts   
   >    involve lots of slaves. Yer PC has parts assembled   
   >    by de-facto slaves. You could not afford a sanitized   
   >    fully 'ethical' existence - just a bug-infested   
   >    leaky pine-needle hut for you to starve in.   
   >   
   >    Whomever takes over the 'west' will treat everyone   
   >    THERE as slaves. Their 'ethic' will be different.   
   >    The first book of laws ever writ,the 'code of   
   >    ur-nammu', had a bunch of rules that applied to   
   >    slaves.   
   >   
   >    Hmmmm ... now I want some hot-dogs for dinner .......   
   >   
      
   I'm already cooking scrag end of lamb stew....   
      
   Everybody is a slave to something.   
      
   My point was merely that in the USA its mainly slaves to ignorance...   
   Americans are dumb, happy and ignorant. Well enjoy it while it lasts.   
      
      
   --   
   There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale   
   returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.   
      
   Mark Twain   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)