High How Are You, Rat: My uncle: "EVs are actually worse for the environment. Do you know how the mine lithium?" Me: No, let's find out. The next half hour: not fun.

My first response to anything at all is usually "I must research this" and boy howdy does that make cookouts awkward.

Haha you and me both, but I love chatting with someone and getting sucked down “let’s find out” rabbit holes! Can’t understand why that’s not fun for everyone. 😬

My uncle: "EVs are actually worse for the environment. Do you know how the mine lithium?" Me: No, let's find out. The next half hour: not fun.

☝️🧐 <- pedant mode on * Many analyses have been done and it turns out the shitty lithium mining is less bad than the shitty gas burning * coming soon: sodium ion batteries!! Much less shitty! Hopefully!!

(Source: getting nerdy with research a few months ago)

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