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People always call this a market failure while willfully ignoring that whenever markets are left unchecked, this is the inevitable outcome.
Also forced them into arbitration, then refused to arbitrate the dispute.
Let's see Paul Allen's turntable!
Though if I had to guess, it's going to be stuff like "build a shit ton of nuclear power plants, use e fuels for cars, use green hydrogen, develop fusion power, and generally do all the things that allow us to believe that we have to change absolutely nothing in our lives."
Boost, Slide and Sync are all coming to Lemmy. Lots of other great apps, too, though - I've recently been using Thunder and Connect.
stimulating the replacement of single-use batteries with rechargeable ones and the reuse of batteries.
How does this mean the end of AA/AAA battery operated devices?
Yes, I'm in the EU, and I keep seeing (and buying) devices that are built for AA batteries or AAA batteries. I'm also using rechargable AA/AAA batteries for these devices.
I just don't understand how "the EU wants these devices to be operated by rechargable batteries instead of single-use batteries" would translate into "the EU wants to implicitly ban AA/AAA operated devices and push companies towards built-in batteries."
I'll start believing in Reddit's commitment to direct democracy when users will be able to also vote out admins and u/spez if they don't like their decisions.
Until then, it's just corporatism under the guise of some fluffy words.
there were so many "recommendations", "guidelines" coming from EU institutions
I have to say that I'm just not aware of any - but I also haven't researched this topic.
Could you link to some of those EU regulations and guidelines?
I would really like to look this up.
That meme is 11 years old now.
Shocking.
He praises the guy who stopped paying rent for Twitter offices as a "savings measure," says Twitter would pay rent "over his dead body," says this is part of his "zero expense" strategy, and is now obviously getting dragged into court and evicted from these spaces.
Billionaires, man. They just shouldn't exist.
And people are looking up to these guys and praising them for how clever and smart they are.
I love how this statement is dripping with condescension for the people who built the service he's currently driving into the ground - all while thinking of himself as some kind of super genius.