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The EU is like a tiger - without teeth, fur or claws. I think the only thing that works here is total boycott of airplanes that constantly unalive people throug

The EU is like a tiger - without teeth, fur or claws. I think the only thing that works here is total boycott of airplanes that constantly unalive people through mass crashes. (Wikipedia really gathers useful data here in a simple-to-read manner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Boeing_737 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...)

freeone3000 3mo ago
You can and should say the word “kill”.
- inigyou 3mo ago
  Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Exterminate. Exterminate. Humans must die. Humans must die. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Am I doing it right?
- burnt-resistor 2mo ago
  It's a self-censorship habit of people who frequent TikTok, Youtube, and other platforms that shadowban or outright ban particular keywords. I think it's excessively obtuse euphemisms for pseudo-civility that George Carlin would've ripped to shreds.
worik 3mo ago
Interesting analogy, maybe a house cat? I think a better analogy is "The EU is like a lumbering elephant. You can steer it, but only if you know how. Otherwise it just keeps on lumbering" Airbus was a bureaucrats wet dream, and by modern Biz Bro standards should never have got off the ground. Now it rules the skies. Boeing, having drunk the financial Kool Aid is wilting Tortoise and the hare?
- moomin 3mo ago
  It turns out that sometimes you really do want health and safety obsessed bureaucrats.
cindyllm 3mo ago
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Octoth0rpe 3mo ago
> The EU is like a tiger - without teeth, fur or claws. EU regs forced apple to move to type-c. They appear to be moving towards either requiring replaceable batteries, or requiring a higher quality batter (larger % of original charge after 1000 cycles). Those both seem valuable to consumers, and coming from a position of regulatory strength.
- 15155 3mo ago
  > coming from a position of regulatory strength Power is defined by the ability to force people to do things they don't want to do - not things that they might have done anyway eventually or that they can feasibly see might benefit them. In this specific case, the EU gave Apple a golden bridge to retreat over by deprecating the 30-pin cable. If Apple did it themselves, people would have been pissed that they had to buy yet another charger. "Europe is the bad guy, not Apple."

freeone3000 3mo ago

You can and should say the word “kill”.

inigyou 3mo ago
Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Exterminate. Exterminate. Humans must die. Humans must die. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Am I doing it right?
burnt-resistor 2mo ago
It's a self-censorship habit of people who frequent TikTok, Youtube, and other platforms that shadowban or outright ban particular keywords. I think it's excessively obtuse euphemisms for pseudo-civility that George Carlin would've ripped to shreds.

worik 3mo ago

Interesting analogy, maybe a house cat? I think a better analogy is "The EU is like a lumbering elephant. You can steer it, but only if you know how. Otherwise it just keeps on lumbering" Airbus was a bureaucrats wet dream, and by modern Biz Bro standards should never have got off the ground. Now it rules the skies. Boeing, having drunk the financial Kool Aid is wilting Tortoise and the hare?

moomin 3mo ago
It turns out that sometimes you really do want health and safety obsessed bureaucrats.

cindyllm 3mo ago

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Octoth0rpe 3mo ago

> The EU is like a tiger - without teeth, fur or claws. EU regs forced apple to move to type-c. They appear to be moving towards either requiring replaceable batteries, or requiring a higher quality batter (larger % of original charge after 1000 cycles). Those both seem valuable to consumers, and coming from a position of regulatory strength.

15155 3mo ago
> coming from a position of regulatory strength Power is defined by the ability to force people to do things they don't want to do - not things that they might have done anyway eventually or that they can feasibly see might benefit them. In this specific case, the EU gave Apple a golden bridge to retreat over by deprecating the 30-pin cable. If Apple did it themselves, people would have been pissed that they had to buy yet another charger. "Europe is the bad guy, not Apple."