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dreimiller t1_j4idham wrote

Shouldn't the location used for a school be where their campus is? The University of Connecticut (#118 on the chart) campus is in Storrs, CT. The chart seems to be using East Hartford as their location. UConn plays their home football games at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, which is 20 miles away from campus. They play half of their home basketball games in Hartford at the Civic Center.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/University+of+Connecticut,+Storrs,+CT+06269/615+Silver+Ln,+East+Hartford,+CT+06118/1+Civic+Center+Plaza,+Hartford,+CT+06103/@41.792759,-72.6060142,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m20!4m19!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e68a397a05e30b:0xb26c6f4b296c85ea!2m2!1d-72.2539805!2d41.8077414!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e653fe591f04a5:0xe0ef9cc3d05ae52!2m2!1d-72.6178773!2d41.7603722!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e6537b19e50fdd:0x2843cfaf734affd5!2m2!1d-72.6769792!2d41.7684577!3e0

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Dudelison t1_j4ibmu8 wrote

I remember when this was an anti Apple argument, because of laptop batteries. People are just now coming out of the woodwork to complain about things from the EV and green angle, but didn't see these people cry out for the birds when we talked about cat registration and castration where I live, only when it was a thing with windmills did bird lives suddenly matter. Same with EV, cobalt is used in oil and gas refineries, but there it isn't recyclable.

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DM_me_ur_tacos t1_j4i3u26 wrote

You're right.

And I am certainly not endorsing the congo.

But the people who come out of the woodwork to make these arguments usually are not sincere.

Suddenly they care about unethical child labor in the Congo. Suddenly they care about birds getting killed by windmills. Suddenly they care about the environmental impact of mining lithium.

Bullshit.

They don't sincerely care about those things. Otherwise they would object to all the other unethical labor practices in the world. Otherwise they would seek to protect endangered species in oil rich habitats. Otherwise they would object to toxic mining practices used to extract coal and oil.

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SteO153 t1_j4i0g34 wrote

Because the Egyptian government hasn't proposed them. Unesco sites are not selected by Unesco, but the different governments must propose them, and then the Unesco member states will vote for them. So, to have more Egyptian sites on the list, first the Egyptian government must select (tentative list) and propose them for selection (nomination).

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