Some of Queensland's coking and thermal coal producers might...

Some of Queensland's coking and thermal coal producers might want to have a word with you. As well as the Gas in NQ and PEP11 in NSW.

That's climate change policy, which is proactive. They're not being development blockers across the board, contextually I was and remain talking about Li.

Which part of CRITICAL minerals don't you get?

Li is actually the way forward on climate change, you don't seem to have noticed,

P.S for the record, language evolves it's not static.

Agreed but this is devolution of language it's lazy and not thought out. This is happening because of knee jerk posts and no serious editing being done by third parties. Errors become acceptable?

Both forms are acceptable uses, and in fact the phrase "could care less" is usually meant in a more insulting way, indicating an element of sarcasm.

The phrase couldn't care less means it's NOT POSSIBLE to care any less.

You can't beat that. Think about it because clearly you haven't.

Appeared to have the desired effect on you anyway.

Nup. Sarcasm is the refuge of the weak. I'm pointing out salient truths and all you can do is hide. It's weak.