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EU throws party in €387K metaverse – and hardly anyone turns up
- dontbenebby 4y agoWould they prefer to be peppered with phalluses? :-) https://www.engadget.com/2006-12-20-second-life-millionaire-plagued-with-peckers.html https://www.engadget.com/2006-12-20-second-life-millionaire-...
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- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoWhy is it so expensive? Why is this necessary?
- croes 4y ago"The Commission's foreign aid department has spent a total of €387,000 to develop a metaverse platform to promote its Global Gateway initiative" If they developed the platform then 387K is pretty cheap
- cbeach 4y agoAs a U.K. citizen I’m glad not a penny of our taxes were used for this. Some of our Euroskeptic MEPs once made a documentary about the spending and waste of EU institutions, and it was eye-opening. More than €100M is spent each year because, for historic reasons, the EU Parliament decided they would move annually between Strasbourg and Brussels: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/faq/18/why-does-parliament-move-between-brussels-and-strasbourg https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/faq/18/why-does-parli... It’s a circus.
- thdespou 4y agoYeah at least you have Brexit teething problems to worry about.