I think you’ve discovered the corollary to the “Everything I don’t like is woke” that people say right wingers do. “Everything we don’t like is fascist,” says the far left.
Only way to avoid being called either a fascist or woke (and I know some who are accused of both!) nowadays is to never say anything.
I had the exact opposite experience. when I stopped eating meat I got worse. When I stopped eating vegetables I got better. I’m not saying you shouldn’t eat vegetables, I’m saying your claim isn’t as strong as you think it is and peoples gut issues are different.
A lot of people go all in on increasing dietary fiber and then experience gut issues and think it must be the plants when they didn't work into it slowly enough. It's like going to the gym and and feeling sore all over all the time or even getting injured and then concluding that going to the gym is bad when no one told you that you should start easy. In my opinion there's harm in how people fail to communicate how to get started on plant based diets when they miss important issues like this that can permanently put people off from it.
They are talking about cobalt from coltan - cobalt-tanatalum - ore, 70% of which is used in vehicle and device batteries. Not solar panels. Your article you linked contained the word "solar" and none of them were related to child mining of coltan for solar panels.
They did allude to energy storage in batteries for wind and solar sources, and if you look there are a number of research projects to reduce cobalt consumption in grid scale storage and other battery cathode applications.
Your summary of the article is misleading and incorrect.
I didn't even know about Brave Search! Thanks for the heads up, I'll switch now and see how it compares. DDG's CEO praising censorship of Russian sites definitely soured me on them.
On the flip side, try leading a squad of four soldiers who don’t want to be there. You can’t fire them. You can’t demote them. If you rely on authoritarianism, what happens when they say “No”. Are you going to try to get them arrested court martialed because they refused an order to pick up brass? You’ll be laughed out of command.
You have to motivate them and make them want to get the mission done. It’s far more challenging than any leadership I’ve done in the civilian world.
There's the cliche about the military being a (gender-neutral) "brotherhood" as if anyone who serves automatically makes lifelong friends, forged in the fires of adversity, blah blah blah.
The military actually is like a family for one big reason: you can't pick your family or your unit. Like it or not, you're stuck with both come hell or high water. And some of both are great, while others are toxic and dysfunctional.
It's not as easy as rezoning. there is significant overhead retrofitting commercial real-estate with the plumbing needed for residential. ( as well as many other changes) It's doable but the right incentives would have to be put in place by the city. However, everything i've seen of the city is their policies are very anti landlords.
