Comment on Anon hates aluminum
JayDee@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
The true tossup is actually mercury or lead.
Both insanely useful metals with a massive variety of helpful traits.
And the universe made them poisonous to us as a big “FUCK YOU”.
Comment on Anon hates aluminum
JayDee@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
The true tossup is actually mercury or lead.
Both insanely useful metals with a massive variety of helpful traits.
And the universe made them poisonous to us as a big “FUCK YOU”.
Liz@midwest.social 7 months ago
It’s very annoying that gold is so expensive. Much less toxic and still has loads of great properties. It’s just, you know, expensive.
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, and it’s expensive because it’s …well, expensive. It’s not any less abundant than some other metals or more difficult to extract. We just decided it’s gonna be expensive
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I mean, we didn’t just arbitrarily decide that gold would be expensive, we decided it would be expensive because it’s pretty. It seemed like a good idea a few thousand years ago.
Liz@midwest.social 7 months ago
So a gold mine is both literal and figurative, eh?
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
There’s also silver which is an off brand ripoff version of gold. It kind of sucks because it discolors and turns purple.