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A counter cartography of the modern world

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[this is a book I'm actually writting, willing to post the draft chapters so that i spread my findings to scientists and amateur thinkers.

[note: I'm trying to trace all of the robber and slaver ants, parasitic birds, and parasitic bees and similar species that have this origin behavior of exploiting. My theory I've been thinking about is this: that there's a single "slaver species" and while it's hard to wrap your mind around i think this correlation as a marker for forensic thinking to look at clues. I'm trying to look at whether or not this traces back to a single species that branched off and separated and then diversified and evolved or if one species did perform what we might call or consider "Slavery" but then we consider whether there's other species that are just mimicking that older and more ancient behavior or if it independently evolved on its own throughout time? An important implication for humanity This implication is potentially a source of information on how to diverge from it without just "feeling" like it or summing it up as "good and bad"; and I specifically believe that this behavior will lead to human extinction if we do not diverge from this highly outdated form of structure in ecology and human nature I believe that something like one really bad war could wipe it all out or one miscalculation could lead us to project a fight or die response which probably would normally save life in a survival situation.. but you can see how generative AI and nukes complicate that innate evolution and adaptation in a highly intelligent species (humans are believed to be the most intelligent and I have a lot of theories on why and why not and how some people are and aren't; largely stemming from social structures and emotion; I have a strong sense that maternal love is a huge part of it and community support; as opposed to competition or die)]

[I especially want to look at the parasitic bee's of the western united states and the correlation between U.S. colonialism with regard to what happened to the indigenous people and how they'd been pushed west and I want to look at ecology in the western united states and the eastern half and compare and contrast that and look to U.S. indigenous/colonial history and see if there are parallels. this can be a highly contested area of debate because it's nearly impossible to source these species ancestors and whether or not they followed colonial humans or whether or not they were invasive or whether or not they were naturally evolving along side their target species that they rely on. it's also controversial especially because it's similar to the era of eugenics. I think that is actually a whole part of scientific history that is related as a single yet potentially repeatable event. I genuinely believe that there's this concept of "Good" in people and I also genuinely believe the concept of "Evil"; at least conceptually]

[Overview] [note: each thing can eventually be expanded down into a volume of detail but only through research]
1) Introduction
[note: a general introduction to the concepts of a single species that exploit, domesticate, and enslave "indigenous" or "native" populations; and that branched off and diversified and possibly went extinct only for that adaptation or evolution to independently evolve as a reactive mimicry from other species. The introduction implies that there is a common ancestor dating back to this behavior in nature, the world, human nature, our "relatives" on the tree of life, etcetera- but specifically looking at this particular connection to other genus and species; such as Hymenoptera, primates, birds, and many other species. The scope of a project like this is massive and especially with the risk of extinction at hand with unsustainability and its cultural and sociological structures; it's harder to compile that information completely and to understand and trace back our Earth's often brutal history. I hope to at least in this thread to reference a wealth of information to look into; seeing as a large community encompasses this forum; seeing it as a "commons" to everyone and not one person's since it serves to support the drive to research]
2) Chapter one: Enslavement and exploit in bees
3) Chapter two: Enslavement and exploit in ants
4) Chapter three: Enslavement and exploit in humanity
5) Theories on Cetaceans
6) Chapter four: The pharmaceutical industry as exploit and enslavement
7) Chapter five: The fossil fuel industry as the road
8) Family tree of bee's, ant's, humans with maps, figures, and graphs dating back to common ancestors and where they lived. [note: I understand that on some of this there's like no information for it but I know that looking at the fossil record these prehistoric Hymenoptera are larger so what specific ancestor are these kidnapper, robber, and slaver ants dating back to to figure out how it evolved?]
9) essay(s)
10) contributing essay(s)
[note:] more to come, I'm trying to make this essential to forensic anthropology and also to forensic architecture in relation to both fields being multi-disciplinary. I plan to specifically have essays on the pharmaceutical and the fossil fuel industry and see if any of it relates to nature as a behavior but also I'd like to examine working conditions of laborers to see if this behavior has just become more mild and takes a form in waste, work place discrimination, and things like that as though we're bouncing from biology through forensics and into sociology and psychology where we rebound into reflection.
11) the war, riot, protest, and emigrate response
[note: will keep expanding chapters. The author does have ADHD and ASD and works full time]



A counter cartography of the modern world

introduction.

ExxonMobile knew about the risks of climate change before we did. Bill Gates had access to code before anyone else. Whites in the United States had a significant advantage over non-whites because of slavery, forced removal of the indigenous, and because of the privilege of accessing, using, enforcing, and encompassing better standards of life than our counter-part human beings. I’d like to go back to Exxon Mobile and their knowledge for a moment and then we can split into a larger concept to play with.

ExxonMobile knew about climate change. They also were the one’s mining oil. Fossil fuels had direct links to wealthy families who’d made their money off Valium and Percocet, coal, clothes, land, minerals, exploitation in labor, and more. The fossil fuel had brought all these things about to the world. They carried the Valium and Percocet to our pill bottles and made the very container made out of petroleum formed into plastic. They didn’t just know about climate change; they knew about geology, climate, physics, psychology, sociology, and all other forms of multi-disciplinary ways to coerce out the world as they saw it for themselves and how they wanted it to be despite how that world affects others.

ExxonMobile likely found fossils. That very discovery tells us that the planet isn’t what we think of. It also shows to an impulsive individual how we “must” be the one to decide it all since we are here and they are there and ExxonMobile likely had to know that this oil was an organism. From there: who discovered the meteor smashing into the planet before we did? Then, from that discovery of what killed so many organisms and transformed them into a fuel containing and trapping their carbon as a compressed and transformed material inanimate? That may have also meant that this large meteor that destroyed the age of Jurassic wasn’t the only point in time for the energy web to form into a source and not through an ecology.

[Note: Theory: If ExxonMobile had more knowledge and intelligence before everyone else did about multidisciplinary approaches, before it was discovered by scientists; that may have given them a practical advantage to set the stage for themselves. It allowed them to remove information they didn’t like until they had the advantage of knowledge. That allowed them to sustain their competitive, and practical, and also literal advantage.

ExxonMobile didn’t just know about climate change and what would happen if we continued to burn them for transportation, energy production, and luxury; but they also knew about more. You had to have knowledge on a brilliant variety of concepts before being able to establish and install the function that fossil fuels serves society.

Now we’ve got a mountain of trash and it’s not a resource. The trash is placed in poor countries as a dump where actual people live. Now the trash is floating in the ocean in gyros; like 8 of them or so…

They know about humanity, and they know about the Earth, and they have discovered fossils only to study and destroy them, they researched better than any other scientist and transformed the massive profits into shell companies to produce this research in dark because if people learned of an intentional enslavement through the established and manufactured dependence of their source of advantage; then people could respond not react. It almost sounds like I think that they are the descendants of a group of primates whose purpose is to enslave other primates and to not perform their own work by using a system of logic specific to slaver-primates… ]

[Note: Theory: taking similar logic but applying that to the competitive advantage the for profit pharmaceutical industry wouldn't that also mean that many of these corporations are also putting their research into taking advantage of markets and finding the proper location to set up their operation (maybe even a lot like a weird trap or functioning like a trap)]

[Note: these are just implications and theories on relating it back to humanity and we also use the term "slaver" as a larger behavior that humanity took part in and still do so today both literal/criminally and conceptually] [note: yes, today in the modern world slavery exists. There's people being enslaved. There was an illegal cannabis grow operation that used slave labor for production that i remember hearing about, it happened in the UK and there was a wealthy couple that had enslaved a boy, an African immigrant and he was somewhat recently released and freed at 60-something and the couple that did that got into trouble for it but the man was like 60 or 61 years old once he was freed- i'm going to look up those two things and re-edit the post later. This is also not mentioning human trafficking in modern slavery. We also aren't totally drawing lines to emigrating out of the country and slavery we think of things like the roads that African and (parallel) South American migrants take and die on. We want to contrast the times when people do become disappeared or whose bodies are discovered with enslavement and we want to contrast "the road" with "the slave" and "the slave driver" whenever we think about this forensically]



There’s a lot of other animals that have independently evolved this trait and seem to be fully separate species that independently evolved like that of the Slaver-ants, parasitic birds, parasites in general, and indeed parasitic bees like the Parasitic genus(s): Coelioxys, Dioxys, Epeoloides, Epeolus, Ericrocis, Holcopasites, Melecta, Neopasites, Nomada, Oreopasites, Sphecodes, Stelis, Townsendiella, Triepeolus, Xeromelecta, and Zacosmia. Some of these have a single host where as a few have been more colonial and target more than one up to three for Dioxys (Anthidium, Megachile, and Osmia), two for Nomada (Andrena and Nomia), and same for Stelis (Heriades and Hoplitis). Coelioxys also targets Megachile too. Epeoloides targets Macropis, Epeolus targets Colletes, Ericrosis, Melecta, Xeromelecta, and Zacosmia target a single host (Anthophora), and also Holcopasites targets Pseudopangurgus, Neopasites targets Dufourea, Oreopasites targets Calliopsis, Sphecodes targets Halictus, Townsendiella targets Conanthalictus, and Triepeolus targets Melissodes as well as a number of non-bee parasites and predators that target Anthophora busleyi (22 in California; I said that right: 22 nonbee species target A. busleyi! 18 of those bee species were known to kill bee larvae in similarity to the U.S. and Canada residential boarding schools and similar to colonial history). That’s just California biodiversity for you but it poses a great and epic implication that there could be an original slaver species that adapted alongside the many enslaved native and indigenous populations of organisms and that can also explain in essence why so many species mimic or independently evolve new ways to interact with the world and to make it their own. (Source “Field guide to the common bees of California: including bees of the western united states).

This can actually be a major part of a huge framework in the field of evolution because it may actually explain that cetaceans could have been an enslaved species and that they retreated into the oceans and developed not only a sense of freedom but out of the constraints of their slaver-overlords developed sonar. Either that or they already had sonar (which may have been a larger part of their hypothetical enslavement because of how useful that could be in use in water and thereby they may have originated as a sort of species that fishes out food from freshwater and had the capacity to go into a large body of water and take a source of food for a more superior being standing guard in the body of water.

A few good questions to ask about this primitive potential slave is: When this hypothetical slave-trajectory originated was it in the primordial goo of the oceans? Which came first? Did so many animals evolve to retreat into the ocean and into water to escape a brutality created by so many other less emotionally intelligent and more driven species? Is this seen today in human beings? In the fossil fuel industry? In the Sackler, Kock, and Walton families? In Nazi Germany, war torn Middle East, Palestine, U.S. and Canadian reservations, and domestically violent, emotionally abusive, and frankly insidiously manipulative households?

Does this pose the same for the consistent backpedal of progress? Isn’t it parallel? We roll back rights everyday allowing people to take one step forward with autonomy only to take two steps back.
 
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This to me as an ecologist appears to be mimicry of other species in a sense so through genetic testing we can see if two identical species (the wealthy and non wealthy: the Kochs, Waltons, and Sacklers, etc) and regular people performing the dirty work of society that keeps the world rotating. "Money makes the world go around" supposedly
 
I haven't been to college by the way lol i did try a tech school that i had a pell grant for and dropped out because i got depressed
 
I'm going to share something about myself. My father is a victim of the Sackler family (he has a class action lawsuit against them and gets money in July) and has polydrug prescriptions (multiple drugs from multiple pharmaceutical companies). He's on a lot of medication. He was on 3 different blood pressure meds at once. He was on two benzodiazapines (Klonapin and xanax) (and he gets frequent amnesia from it and starts taking more medication). He was on MS cotin, fentanyl, suboxone (which is hard to get!) and had a previous history of abusing cocaine and had been kicked out of his household, abandoned by his mother, beat by his father, molested by an uncle, and has been institutionalized by prison. I share this in relation to the book I am writing on a counter-cartography of the modern world. I wanted to share that because he's currently on 26 different meds and if you suddenly stopped his medication both narcotic and non-essential medication it would lead to irreversible brain damage and other consequences and he's been institutionalized into depending on medication that he doesn't need and has ASD, parkinsons disease, and dimentia and i'm wondering here what's the conditions of his experience in relating to not only himself but the decisions he's made? Wanted to share it people so that you know where my belief in theory of a counter cartography of the modern world originated. Reposting this in my thread, thank you all for understanding and i apologize for the dark nature of my thesis

I think that not only is there a certain kind of person who does labor and another who doesn't but that there's a certain kind of person who can be vulnerable

I am also a super positive person but i have PTSD and depression as well and I believe that slavery still exists in frontline practice
 
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I think it's only fair to bring this to your attention:

It looks to me as though you could provide something very interesting, if you were willing to fit it into some (yet to be finalised?) editorial guidelines.
 
But "Fossil fuel" is not made from and never has been made from fossils as we have been told. Petroleum is also not a "non renewable resource" as we have also falsely been told. Think of Petroleum like blood in a human, if you take a pint of blood from a human the living body will work to rebuild and reproduce that missing pint until the system has the correct amount or balance of blood. Petroleum is like the blood or lubricant of the Earth and Earth does slowly replenish the supply of Petroleum once extracted. The challenge lies in knowing what the balance point is and living within that balance point.

My belief is that we as a species are about to go back to extracting energy from Aether and a lot of technologies for energy production which have been hidden and suppressed from us will soon be revealed and rolled out. The sooner the better for all of us.
 
[this is a nonfiction book I'm actually writting, willing to post the draft chapters so that i spread my findings to scientists on the frontline]
This is still a nonfiction book right?

Scientific consensus about fossil feuls are the following:

"Fossil fuels, including coal, oil, and natural gas, are formed from the remains of ancient plants and microorganisms subjected to intense heat and pressure over geological timescales.

Fossil fuels are the result of complex processes involving the burial and transformation of ancient organic material, primarily plants and marine microorganisms, under specific geological conditions."

When a big oil field is left alone for some time, the remaining fossil feuls in that field can slowly accumulate again, giving the false impression that the fossil feuls regenerated itself.

My issue with fossil feuls is the following:
  • Oil is still way too cheap to give the better, renewable sources a viable chance to rise up. In the long term renewable sources like tidal wave energy and deep ocean current generators will have a much better ROI, though with the seemingly forever relative low feul prices it's still cheaper to skip those huge investments for new energy sources and just get that cheap oil flowing.
  • We need fossil feuls for our food, without the fertilizers made out of it, we can sustain less people on earth than we do now.
  • Fossil feuls with their CO2 emissions are a true thread to climate change and ocean acidification. Did you know for example that the most 'environmentally friendly' liter of gasoline will cause the emissions of 2.3kg of CO2 from the well to your feul tank?
  • Oil geopolitical consequences. Middle East is a great example of those consequences.
My conclusion: as long as fossil feul will stay relatively cheap, it will seriously hamper the creation of much better energy alternatives.


Kind regards,

The Traveler
 
Look at all the theories on what people thought what fueled the sun.

Our perception of 'reality' changes with our perception of the now.

With the change of the perception of Now our perception of the future and the past changes as well.

Reality does not define perception, perception defines 'reality'.

Everything is a story, a story that we create for ourselves.

A constant Flux of perceptions. There is not one truth, there are many truths defined by many perceptions.

Therefore focus on the perceptions that makes you, the individual, feel happy and enjoy the Flux!
 
Look at all the theories on what people thought what fueled the sun.
And look at what science does with hypotheses: the good ones stay, the bad ones get removed.

With that in mind and the accumulated knowledge we gained over time by experimenting, we are even able to recreate the effect of what is fueling the sun on earth itself! Over and over again, with each time the exact same expected results as predicted.

So no, that you do not fully understand everything does not mean that reality is constantly shifting, it just means that a scientific theory is the highest possible rank in science and will stay that way until disproven (or most likely amended). It's extremely rare that a scientific theory completely gets discarded.

Also in science 'theory' means a very different thing than your everyday use of the word theory: A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of an aspect of the natural world that is based on a body of evidence and repeatedly tested and confirmed through observation and experimentation.

We also even know that our best scientific theories and models are not complete, and even then we can still could use those models to very precisely predict so many things, like the Top Quark and the Higgs boson for example.

Reality does not change due to you thinking differently over time, it is way more likely that you are the one that has changed over time and are now seeing things in a different perspective.


Kind regards,

The Traveler
 
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That's excellent! Each individual creates their own reality. Hopefully with joy.
You might want to revise it to: "Each individual has the freedom to form their own perceptions of reality, even if those perceptions do not align with the commonly accepted reality."

Another crucial aspect of science is that it establishes a common language and terminology, ensuring that all participants are communicating on the same wavelength.


Kind regards,

The Traveler
 
I think this has to do with how you view your world and if your a positivist or constructivist, both have merit and both are not without criticism, I think it’s important to understand what perspective is being used to discuss the nature of reality and how it affects the perception of the individual on that reality.

From there on we could then think about how reality is influenced by the perception of many people and its role in science and how we interpret the results of research. And then we are back again. 🙃.

More on topic, a tip for the OP is to read the book, Not the end of the world by Hannah Ritchie on useful actionable information about co2 impact and how to put it into perspective.
And read, The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review, it shows how much more advantageous it is to address climate change early, from here on out its not that hard to understand why sustainable business practices are going to be leading the way in the future, what is now still a window of opportunity will move onto becoming a necessity in the future.

Although it may seem all gloom and doom at times it is not too late and there is a future, not to say we should lean back because it is a given but with the right attitude we as humans can make it work now and in the future.

Take care
 
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(note: one thing i'd like to thread about later on is that you have something like bootlegging through history whenever resources aren't divied up proper. See "The bootleg coal rebellion: the pensylvania miners who seized an industry 1925-1942 by Mitch Troutman and foreward by Staughton Lynd. we have bootlegged before why not bootlegging wind power? Or "Bootlegging" wind power like building them en mass with few resources and build with open and customizable design? How many innovations there would be. You cannot bootleg solar energy because it requires cobalt a rare mineral that is produced using both industrial and child labor methods of extraction. See Cobalt Red: How the blood of the congo powers our lives by Siddharth Kara)

What about bootlegging feral hemp populations? Field hemp? To make buildings out of in areas where you could (and yea there's things to consider with that but still there's say for instance massive field hemp populations in the midwest and it's a natural resource; either that or a waste and a stupid plant that's just junk left over from the U.S. WW2 production of hemp

This is a part of a response I see in protest and movement. Politics is about what's possible and not ideal in working practice and not everyone seeks engagement or fulfillment in their lives that way.

I also think human exploitation works by background of that person and is specific to conditions and can make or break because of epigenetics. Epigenetics can affect a lot of things as well as the external world and location/time/environment

One aspect too of energy use and misuse is well..... use and misuse. We'll even call non technological forms of "energy" productivity. This, when industry trumps up itself more than oversite and regulation; is what results and you've produced a conceptual slavery in a poor country with resources but also cherry pick the places in modern society to have a more bland form of exploitation so that it's just barely out of that definition and you can only trace it but not directly prove a cause and that's one thing to think in scrutiny. There's a writer Eyal Press who wrote "dirty work: essential jobs and the hidden toll of inequality in America" this also is a book that holds a myriad of insight

I also want to note that I can't make this into a nonfiction book without help and scrutiny so thank you all. The scrutiny can pose more intelligence as we work on this. I also maybe just need to rephrase maybe this doesn't fit neatly into a specific thing because i'm trying to ask more questions with this than telling answers. I also am examining humans as a species but i do not intend to examine this through eugenics or any crap that is so full of it but rather culture, psychology, history, FA, and things of that nature. (note: FA is pretty new but I think that it's a good way to look at things forensically and that way you can paint out a good picture and use analysis) And I really believe there's parallel to some animal behavior and human history. I want to really ask a lot of questions in regard to our world. I would be happy too to work on editorial projects and help when I can but only if i have the time because I work jobs like factory or entry level healthcare, etc or like retail and food service so I have to work full time to pay my bills. I want debate too. I want to be fact checked on things and that way i can continue writing it on my own without having to wait for it to never happen, essentially because as people we can always come together and support the intellect or lack of or the misunderstandings in each other. Plus if I didn't get to continue the work on that project then it could've never happened. This is still rough draft and theory and it needs the fact checking. If say for instance...

Fossil fuel is then made of plants and microorganisms. Okay, so then they may have more knowledge of plants. Research can also be stymied or never produced and while you cannot confirm that you can deny it too; still correlation and no causation. Correlation can still be present and present a marker for exploring. I mean you'd probably discover a lot near the oil reserves regarding plants and their consumers or with microorganisms. i'm not going to lie thats where I get confused lol but i'm reading on it i do believe microbiology is a huge field and can go either into medical or ecological

I'll just ask a question here. Don't fossil fuel industry professionals have a trajectory for all logical conclusions to their behaviors and decisions?
 
I'll just ask a question here. Don't fossil fuel industry professionals have a trajectory for all logical conclusions to their behaviors and decisions?
The short answer: The trajectory of fossil fuel industry professionals is shaped by economic incentives, regulatory environments, technological developments, and social pressures. Their decisions are leading to both continued fossil fuel dependency and gradual shifts toward more sustainable practices.

Essentially they have to slowly shift from a very profiting fossil fuel industry to a "renewable energy generation and distribution" industry that, compared to fossil fuel, has a relative uncertain potential since only parts of their current core business can be used for it.


Kind regards,

The Traveler
 
You cannot bootleg solar energy because it requires cobalt a rare mineral that is produced using both industrial and child labor methods of extraction.
If you ever want to release a nonfictional book that will be taken seriously, then you really have to work on your fact checking skills. ;)

About 90% of all solar panels being build uses the following raw materials:
  • Silicon
  • Silver
  • Aluminum
  • Copper
  • Phosphorus and Boron, used to dope silicon to create p-type and n-type layers, essential for forming the p-n junction that allows the generation of electric current in solar cells
Then some specialized panels:
  • Cadmium Telluride, used in thin-film solar cells.
  • Gallium Arsenide, used in high efficiency panels.

And then there is a small niche of new tech solar cells that indeed uses various types of molecules that incorporates cobalt. Of all cobalt produced, about 70% comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, with Indonesia and Australia on the rise to gain more market share due to the bad reputation of cobalt-mining in the DRC.


Kind regards,

The Traveler
 
In 1951, the US enacted the Invention Secrecy Act. What is that? It allows the government to legally classify and keep certain inventions secret if deemed a threat to national economy or security. What could be a threat to national economy? Inventions under a secrecy order cannot be discussed, exported, or sold outside of military channels. Violations of secrecy order can result in imprisonment for the inventor. Over 6,000 patents today are kept by the US government in secret. I wonder what those 6000 patents are and how they could positively change the world if even a few of them were allowed to be released.

Still wonder why we do not have cars that run on water or zero point energy or Nicola Tesla energy tech in every city around the world? Were you aware that the US military creates its own jet fuel from sea water? No petroleum needed, no digging in the ground or pumping and refining oil from the ground, just machinery and sea water to fuel high end jet engines. My best guess is that other military are using this same technique to create their own aviation fuel from sea water as well. Declassify some of this already available tech and watch the world change for the better almost instantly.
 
In 1951, the US enacted the Invention Secrecy Act. What is that? It allows the government to legally classify and keep certain inventions secret if deemed a threat to national economy or security. What could be a threat to national economy? Inventions under a secrecy order cannot be discussed, exported, or sold outside of military channels. Violations of secrecy order can result in imprisonment for the inventor. Over 6,000 patents today are kept by the US government in secret. I wonder what those 6000 patents are and how they could positively change the world if even a few of them were allowed to be released.

Still wonder why we do not have cars that run on water or zero point energy or Nicola Tesla energy tech in every city around the world? Were you aware that the US military creates its own jet fuel from sea water? No petroleum needed, no digging in the ground or pumping and refining oil from the ground, just machinery and sea water to fuel high end jet engines. My best guess is that other military are using this same technique to create their own aviation fuel from sea water as well. Declassify some of this already available tech and watch the world change for the better almost instantly.
Mostly hearsay turned into an exiting and compelling story, but all without solid evidence.

Conspiracy Theories do not belong on the public forum, please respect that.


Kind regards,

The Traveler
 
One further point of clarification about cobalt: its current major product destination is in lithium ion batteries, so it does tie into the whole renewable energy business environment in a huge way (and, of course, mobile devices). Alternative formulations of lithium ion battery have been and continue to be developed, using more abundant transition metals like iron and manganese but their market prevalence is currently rather insignificant.

The other major Congolese conflict mineral, so-called coltan, is the source of tantalum used to make the tiny capacitors upon which all modern electronics relies. Speaking of capacitors, much of the mica used in capacitor manufacture is mined using child labour. So if you're wondering why I refuse to buy new tech, this is why.
 
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