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  • New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe Mandates

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  • Most voters rely on the campaign communications which was not equally good. Is it too far fetched to think that Remain was intentionally bad?

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  • Since most people don't listen, and there are still a lot who know, why not join forces? Unlike Cassandra, there is no need to just wait for fate to happen.

  • We hebben een serieus probleem.

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  • It could also be a warning against importing foreign workers to build ambitious projects because social cohesion could collapse.

    (This is not meant as an argument against a pluralistic society)

  • 'But What if we Made a Show Showcasing the Positives of the Torment Nexus'

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  • Why not outcompete them with better offers?

  • Papst-Vorschlag: Ein gemeinsames Ostern für alle Christen?

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  • Wenn der Papst nicht anbietet, dass katholische Osterfest auch z.B. im Wechsel zu verlegen, ist das wohl eher Provokation als ein ernst gemeinter Vorschlag.

    Dabei sind die Ostervorschriften schon seltsam, wenn Gründonnerstag am jüdischen Paschafest war, aber die Berechnungsregeln für Ostern nicht die gleichen wie für das Paschafest sind.

  • New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe Mandates

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  • That's a good argument but doesn't fit the situation. The bad buying decisions can be corrected with market mechanisms. Allow people to finance the products over the entire expected lifetime. Then high quality goods are cheaper and people will choose them.

    Some people speculated that Britain left the EU because they believe in markets whereas many EU countries don't. This could be one of many decisions that put the EU onto a different trajectory. We will see in 20 years if the EU can stay on top of its regulations.

  • RAGE AGAINST THE MICROPENIS

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  • The difference is using violence to create good outcomes vs bad outcomes.

    Good entirely depends on your perspective. Conservatives also use violence to create what they perceive as good outcomes.

    The difference is that fascists use violence to supress everybody who is different instead of being inclusive and accept differences.

    Ridiculing differences is a step into the dark side that shouldn't be made.

  • New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe Mandates

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  • I wouldn't mind switching to a society that is built on altruism. My point is that the EU is not an inherent benevolent government. These regulations will be abused and I believe that there would be less abuse if we spent the resources on infrastructure that allows the consumers to make better decisions.

  • New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe Mandates

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  • the EU should create infrastructure that allows consumers to compare products objectively

    forms of market failure. Because that is how it works out in the real world

    I think that it is better to improve the markets and minimize the market failures instead of trying to regulate everything.

    Everything has to be checked by institutions if consumers are kept ignorant whereas competent consumers do that work for free.

  • New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe Mandates

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  • Yes, and that's why competition is needed so that the 'as much rent as possible' is minimized. I am not arguing against a helpful society. We don't exchange goods for compassion but for money so we need competition.

  • New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe Mandates

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  • Regulatory capture. It already exists in the housing market, medical equipment, medical drugs, etc. There, things are more expensive than necessary.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

    The shift in responsibility to the EU is not free. Of course, it costs some taxes to run the institutions that enforce the regulations. But who is supervising those institutions? That would be up to the citizens, instead of comparing products directly.

    Are citizens going to do that? Have citizens checked the sourcing of the covid vaccines?

  • New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe Mandates

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  • That feels like a move on the slippery slope from a market economy to a planning economy.

    The objective is honorable, but better value should come from customer choices, not from regulations.

    Instead of making those rules and establishing institutions that enforce them, the EU should create infrastructure that allows consumers to compare products objectively. Add the opportunity to finance more expensive but also more durable products easily and there is no need to suffocate everything in regulations.

    I should add that this recreates the limited housing markets for consumer goods. This is going to make life more expensive despite each rule being very reasonable. The promise of the EU were free markets, but the opposite is happening.

  • CDU, Russland und die Frage nach dem „Danach“

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  • Covid․gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy website

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  • That website is batshit

    So it is on point?

  • This might have some impact on efficiency

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  • Is there a way that I can enforce this as root to all of my users?

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  • Would you allow others to join you in your corner in the world and create a team Cassandra?

    It should be easier to form a new team than to change existing teams. Once the new team lives a happy life, the other teams will want to copy it. Without that proof, people prefer to stick to the known misery they can control instead of trying something new.

  • I get that america is failing in it's duty to suppress the rise of fascists but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket?

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  • Yes, because that was the original framing. I guess the West did their own annexing, or OP would have kept the focus on those annexations.

    What are the failed Russian annexations?

    China did Tibet and tried Vietnam, as far as I know, as well as some Indian disputes. I was wondering if there are more because depending on the country, there were reasons enough for the annexations that an alignment with China was not unreasonable. BRICS shows that those annexations are not show stoppers.

  • Has Brexit Killed British Trade?

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  • British newspapers regularly reported how stupid the EU is. Unlike other countries, they made sure that the population was on the edge of EU acceptance. Everybody pretening that Brexit was just stupidity allows the EU to avoid the debate about whatever was the major political difference that led to the separation.

  • Whistleblower Accuses DOGE of Letting Russians Access Government Accounts in Shocking Security Breach

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  • Sure, but that doesn't recreate the power and wealth they have in the US. Why should they support Trump if all they get is a reason to leave the USA?