Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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I’ve gone off topic now, but anyway I find it hard to believe any exploration geologist would work for a mining/exploration company that basically tells the world you are worthless

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Modern mines are technical marvels. Engineers spend a lot of time keeping the rock from collapsing in, they have to send fresh air into underground mines, they have to take the water table below the mine, mineral processing is a feat itself. Geologist makes sure the ore is actually there

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There are a lot of people trying to make money off mineral exploration and mining that have absolutely no business there. But they think it’s all easy because how hard can finding metals and digging up rocks be? But the answer is actually “pretty fucking difficult”

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I have no doubt in my mind that the reason they have not taken Kobold public is because they would have to prove all this because thanks to Bre-X you can’t just make shit up and take peoples money when you are publicly traded

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